Wait, people think ContraPoints is OLD? She's a baby! She's tiny! *checks Wiki for her info* ...omg she's my age. But she only started transitioning a couple years ago, so I guess to me she's still super-young.
Also I'd managed to not hear the news about Buck Angel because I hid under a rock to avoid the constant cycle of, "trans person rises to prominence, gets put on pedestal, is found out as anywhere from Flawed to Evil and thrown to the wolves, shiny new baby trans rises up who's going to be perfect this time..." The moment I heard about ContraPoints, I was like, "Welp, she's going to get burned in effigy in a year or two and I don't want to be around to watch it happen."
But even though I didn't transition THAT long ago, my primary trans resources were offline, so I'm still in the '90s perception of "transgender is an umbrella term, not just the new word for transsexual, and it covers everything from gender non-conforming 'cis' people to Harry Benjamin Syndrome hard core 'True Transsexuals' who think the rest of us make them look bad."
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Also I'd managed to not hear the news about Buck Angel because I hid under a rock to avoid the constant cycle of, "trans person rises to prominence, gets put on pedestal, is found out as anywhere from Flawed to Evil and thrown to the wolves, shiny new baby trans rises up who's going to be perfect this time..." The moment I heard about ContraPoints, I was like, "Welp, she's going to get burned in effigy in a year or two and I don't want to be around to watch it happen."
But even though I didn't transition THAT long ago, my primary trans resources were offline, so I'm still in the '90s perception of "transgender is an umbrella term, not just the new word for transsexual, and it covers everything from gender non-conforming 'cis' people to Harry Benjamin Syndrome hard core 'True Transsexuals' who think the rest of us make them look bad."
--Rogan