Outside of my normal confusion regarding transgenderism to begin with, I don't really have any problems with Liz. At least she hasn't done a lot of the nonsense I'll often see from transgenders and seems fairly moderate. For example, I watched some of that interview with her that was posted here and she commented on the whole bathroom issue, saying that she was okay with keep things the way they are now as trans people were a tiny percentage of the population that it wasn't really fair to be forcing everyone else to go along with it in regards to bathrooms if it made them feel uncomfortable.VoiceOfReasonPast wrote:Liz is definitely the sanest of them, and she actually seems to have hobbies and interests aside from talking about how awesome being trans is.
One other thing about Liz I will give credit for: Liz actually puts some kind of effort into trying to pass for female. I'll be honest, when she was in Linkara's videos, I never even suspected she was trans, I thought she was just a female with more masculine than usual characteristics. That brings me to my next point.
This didn't really involve any "e-celeb" but I wanted to talk about this somewhere where I knew I wouldn't get lambasted for it. So, there was this guy I sort of knew. Not someone I knew particularly well, but we had talked sometimes. I hadn't seen him for a while, long enough I had actually forgotten all about him, but all of a sudden I see him again and he's gone trans. And by "gone trans" I mean has some fake boobs (not sure if it was a padded bra or actual implants) and is talking in what I assume was supposed to be an attempt at a female voice but instead made it sound like he had some kind of awful nasal problem.
The whole thing was so absolutely cringe inducing (and the voice just plain irritating to hear) that initially I was wondering if this was the result of him losing some kind of bet and having to pretend to dress up as a woman as a result, or as some kind of temporary experiment to see how long it would be until someone asked them what was going on. But no, he was going by a female name now.
And it just left me wondering, if you're going to do this, can't you at least do a plausible impression of a female? It's not like it's impossible, I've run into some other male to female trans people who I didn't realize were trans until later on. Maybe I'm just not very perceptive, but in that case it drives home how poor a job some people do at it if I can see right through it.