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Preconceptions

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Mar 31
  • 1 min read

This is the reason that I'm insisting on some form of compensation regarding the transphobia that I faced over the last several years. A bunch of older, richer, more powerful people decided that I was a pain in their arse, and therefore it was fair game to run my name through the mud and accuse me of all the classic trannie stereotypes until I became useful to them again (as a man). Most of Wellington got caught up in the whole 'is Amanda crazy' bullshit, instead of listening to my ideas, or socialising with me despite my lack of interest in being an actor or a professional singer. They've been throwing around nasty words like indecent exposure around children -which I'm pretty sure has never happened. Why can't I throw around words like blackmail, coercion, cyberbullying and transphobia?

 
 

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