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12/01/09(Tue)23:33 No.2376120Okay, guys, come on.
As
a transperson, at first, when I saw this kid and felt that they were
using their gender identity just to get attention I felt a little upset
too. I thought, "what the heck, this is really disrespectful to the
people who actually ARE trans. It's making all of us out to be
attention whores who are a joke, and making it seemingly okay for
everyone to go on a trans witch hunt and try to out all the trans
cosplayers!"
But... you know what? The problem isn't this
person. It's us. It's us thinking that way. This is just an attention
whoring teenager, regardless of their gender and whether or not they
use their gender to self-promote. Everyone, in one way or another, uses
their gender in life too; or would you say those female cosplayers who
wear skimpy outfits aren't using their girlyness to promote themselves?
Honestly,
I think the issue here is that we are taking this person to be sort of
the "spokesperson" to all transgender people. Well, they're not! If a
guy walks up to you, sets his hair on fire and then kicks you in the
'nads are you gonna start thinking "oh wow this guy makes me ashamed of
being a man"? Really, now... this person is just that. A PERSON. ONE
PERSON. One individual. They don't represent men, women, transpeople,
cosplayers or even yaoi fans for that matter.
Seriously, /cgl/,
what do we care what this person's gender is? I think they should be
entitled to identify as they will as long as they're happy and not
harming anyone. Are they getting unwarranted attention? So what? How
many people on DA and other corners of the internet don't get that too?
Just let 'em do as they want.
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