YouTuber, ex-philosopher 
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And to be honest I'm often not sure I'm up to it. Everything I said about Singal's failures will at some point be said about me. Much of it already has. What does being a good representative involve in my case? Do I just visibly be myself? Or do I have to toe a more generic line?
I'm an abnormal trans person. I wasn't a trans child. I think of myself as transitioning from one gender to another rather than expressing an inherent essence. My sexual orientation has shifted with my transition. I have a performative, non-ontological view of what gender even is
Far from having "joined the transcult" I think I'm fairly heterodox. I was being serious yesterday when I said I like having nuanced freespeechy conversations about this kind of thing. But for the good of the community do I need to keep this shit to myself?
I know there will come a time where I'm accused of failing to be a good representative. And I guess I need to prepare myself for that so I'm mentally ready to handle it correctly.
In the meantime idk I guess my plan is to ease into a kind of generic yas-queening around on Twitter, and in my videos experiment with expressing some of my views in the voice of COMPLETELY FICTIONAL CHARACTERS.
I don't think there's any normal way to be trans. Just as there's no normal way to be cis. I think it's okay for people who haven't always thought of themselves, for example, as women, to decide that they'd like to be a woman now.
My experience from talking to other trans people is while there are many common experiences, very few people seem to neatly fit the cis-approved "trans narrative". However, that still doesn't seem to stop us from using it to invalidate ourselves.
With the exception of sexual orientation, all of this also describes me as a trans person and I really appreciate your visibility because of it. I think our sort of trans person is more common than people think, and it's important that we be recognized. So thank you.
It's not surprising that a bunch of trans people don't realise they're trans until puberty hits. Before you get the wrong hormones, there's not especially much to be dysphoric about. The rest sounds like it could possibly be just a difference in interpretation, maybe?
I don't think that harms your positionally as a trans spokesperson. Queer culture is founded upon normalizing deviation from the norm. Being outside of mainstream queer culture just makes you ... double queer? Everqueer? Two queers in a trenchcoat? Idk but you're good, imo.
We might argue queer culture destroys the norm. Queerness is fluid, un-fixed, and beautiful <3
While this isn't my personal experience, this isn't abnormal. A number of trans people I know also had this experience.
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