1/ I had a lovely coffee chat with Justin Oulette (@jstn) today and one of the topics that came up was LGBT representation online and in media, and I told him I thought it was both cool and brave that he was so open about being bisexual publicly.https://twitter.com/jstn/status/1232127072471932929?s=20 …
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2/ He was really modest about it, and in the course of our conversation I opened up to him a little about how I'm transgender, which is something I'm pretty open about with friends but kind of shy away from online and in work settings.
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3/ And by "kind of shy away from" I mean I go to lengths to actively not mention it and am cagey with details about my past at times, which we talked about a little. Anyway, that got me thinking about the fact that I do kind of want to talk about it.
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4/ Because I'm still really anxious and embarrassed about it a lot of the time, which annoys me, because I don't want to be. I feel bad that there are teenagers making YouTube videos online with more guts than me to be who they are and not feel bad about it.
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5/ Also, you have to remember that I grew up in the Midwest in conservative military and working class communities where this was VERY NOT OKAY. It's tough to shed a lifetime of shame about that.
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also like no one even knew what this was before like 2008
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