To the 'professional' art world

Salina, there's no 'some owen' 'some man' 'be a girl on stage' answer.

That attitude is why the NZSM lost.

Jane too. I'm serious: Owen needs to admit he didn't get it, and believed the worst.

People are so uncomfortable with admitting that they don't understand me. I mean, to be fair, they grew up in a reality where being trans was a mental illness.

I was 25 when NZ changed that law. Of course the fortysomethings are finding it hard to tolerate. It's not even a law, sorry. The psychiatrists decided that, and that's why I know it wasn't them that were pressuring me to detransition. VUW was. The Council was. The Mayor was. The local MP was after 2023.

Tam wants to pretend like she didn't believe it, but I know that she did.

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Jane gets off easy. a) she always knew, b) she admitted that she didn't fully understand.

That's why I love her. She genuinely tried.

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I'm not kidding. In early 2023, I stated a legally correct statement about my IP.

It's almost December 2024, and you're just now realising that I was 100% correct, and it was you - the established, already wealthy people - were being rude and using undue influence to persuade me to sign a contract that was largely about exploiting me, then saying it's ok cos you gave me a scholarship. -

That's six months after I said cease and desist in AI-assisted, but legally correct, English.

That = compensation for lost wages, wasted time, and for plain being wrong. -

They laughed at my letters; they continued to tell me to be a man. Back off, say sorry, and try again with fair, legitimate negotiations regarding my IP that take place in meeting rooms, and not via threats on the Internet. It wasn't my choice to ream you out online: that's the only option you gave me.