I wish Buck Angel wasn’t the closest thing we had to a famous trans guy. I also wish that trans women supported trans men they liked as vociferously as they denounced the assholes.
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Appreciated, but also I don't need fans. It's not why I'm here nor why most of us are speaking up. I literally intend to archive/delete this account in some post TERF war future if we get there and go back to my real name.
Don’t get me wrong- it’s not about fame. It’s that it’s hard to have our voices in the conversation if none of us have enough presence to speak or be heard on the same level of respect as trans women with large followings.
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There’s a different dynamic when we’re all little guys in the replies, never the voices people first look to.
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Hard to have pride, with no role models, hard to have exemplars of who our young trans men could be- we mostly look to cos men or trans women, myself very much included.
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Maybe it's cause I live in a country where the same guy coedited the Trans Studies Reader and drafted the Gender Recognition Act, another trans guy runs our largest trans run rights organisation, etc that I don't get it.
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This feels a lot like when you see guys who complain that women have an easier time becoming models or finding work in the sex industry or doing pop culture stuff while overlooking that men are actually taken seriously.
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