To Wellington

There is no way to mistake my intention, but this is intended to make the terms of surrender explicit. There is only one outcome that can lift the boycott, encourage me to reduce my alcohol use, and make me feel like I'm a valid human being: that outcome is an outright statement of apology from VUW, Tory Whanau and Red Scare. To my face. In a public setting, with reporters present. The opera isn't an apology, and any suggestions of production of the opera in Wellington must be predicated on the apology taking place before the score is complete. Euan seems like a nice person that gets it, but I'm not doing any more counselling unless that is the outcome. Otherwise, there is no need to change my life to suit the needs of cheats and liars that called me a fixated psycho, then asked me to use my ability to manipulate words to save the skin of the very person that I was supposedly a threat to. I'm not kidding, Tam. My continued appearances at Question Time are predicated on the Green Party admitting fault and owning the Chinese whispers (yes, that's a very un-PC statement) that nearly put me in jail and enabled a sustained conversion therapy attempt that was completely illegal and ruined my self-confidence as a sexual being. VUW has to admit involvement and apologise. They should compensate me too. - Now, if I feel this bitter and sore over something that happened three years ago, then imagine how much mamae that Whanui or one of the over-50 queens might feel about similar incidents that happened before the Internet democratised complaining about sexual misconduct and enabled me to spend a solid year complaining until this latest identity theft stuff removed all doubt that the conversion attempts were real. The drugs issue may be dead, but the boffins are finally ready to admit that all the complaining that I did was literally symptomatic of how my generation of educated trannies feel. My problems are indeed the problems of the entire community, writ large because the PM knows who I am, and so does the Mayor of Wellington. Re: education, I think 1 in 5 trans people still don't have a tertiary qualification, and the Law Commission review revealed that a whole bunch of queer people think that uni isn't a place where they can advance up the ladder. That's why I stayed in the closet.