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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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.
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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I’ll be honest though, I didn’t think I’d have to explain why role models and representation can be important.
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