I feel a need to reassure myself like wait, why did I do this again? I knew I had to say something about Singal when the Atlantic article broke, & on my timeline I saw 1 almost every trans person decrying it & 2 enthusiastic retweets from Blanchard, Dreger and a bunch of TERFs.
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Like if I made a video about homosexuality and the majority of gay people hated it while it was enthusiastically endorsed by Ted Cruz and Pat Robertson, I'd have to look at myself and say, oh shit: empirically, I have fucked up.
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But I generally don't get involved with these disputes on Twitter. The only reason I did this time is that, as I said, I'm widely viewed as a Singal apologist, which I'm not.
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But I suppose I'm worried that my motivation here is too much "I want to wash my hands of the situation" and not enough "something good will happen because I'm doing this."
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There's also this background anxiety I have around what I said last night about the obligations of public representatives. I've had no choice but to take on the trans representative role since I came out, and as my platform grows so does that obligation.
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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?
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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
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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?
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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.
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Replying to @ContraPoints
I don’t pretend to know the kind of pressure that comes with having your size audience, but I just want to say Thankyou for dedicating your time, intelligence, patience, grace, and emotional energy into the queer agenda. Bless!!!
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I waved to you from the plane! Did you see me? Lolpic.twitter.com/1JrPfNhvhu
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