this article had me considering how many of my media preferences have been driven by the experience of being a trans person who spent my entire teenage and university years being someone who couldn't date lest my horrible secret be exposedhttps://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1380984113964806148 …
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and moreover how much my current vtuber binge is borne from a desire to perform and express myself fully paired with a desire to not expose my irl identity to what would feel like a permanent ratchet into being known as trans
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I have thought about what a big deal Nicole Maines' decision to publicly out herself as Jane Doe was
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Replying to @life_minutiae @arthur_affect
There was a documentarian who swung by the trans group and wanted to do a documentary on me since I was transitioning so young I said no, but always wondered what my life would have looked like if I had said yes (the documentary ended up getting made with someone far older)
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An article on Nicole and Jonas came out a few years later, and I read it basically immediately because you could count the amount of media coverage of young trans people anywhere in the world on one hand.
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Probably if I had done that documentary it would have been pirated by basically every young trans person looking for anyone at all like them. Maybe TGD would have done a comic on me or something. But instead, I chose not to open that door.
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Maybe if I had decided to open that door, I'd have been much more willing to pursue acting, or music, or all of these art things that I'm now scrambling to (re)learn at the age of 31. Maybe I would have become an activist and gone into law.
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Honestly though the other people who have had the presence of mind to go through this at such a young age are some of the most powerful fucking people I've ever had the pleasure of being able to be aware of and ... yeah, it's a rarefied and intimidating group of badasses
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@Nymphomachy was working on a visual novel about a character who was a troubled former child star who vanished, secretly transitioned, and is now living a quiet anonymous life while very slowly getting back into performing through tiny little Internet projects
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Probably unrealistic because those tiny little internet projects are unlikely to stay tiny if this is an early transitioner we're talking about
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