Why won't I compromise and be Tina?

Because I don't have to, my IP isn't your property and your consistent claims that it could be a useful political project are total horseshit from self-interested theatre/film dweebs. AMPP is a useful political project. Weeded Out is a payday for media insiders. Nobody was paid any type of salary to produce Dakumentary content. That's why everyone loves that documentary. People doing their bit for the cause. People don't need a glossy, Disney-style Pose show to rally support. They need grassroots mobilisation that includes everyone, not just photogenic ones. - If you loved my script and want to make a gay drama, then do so. It cannot infringe upon my script; it cannot involve me. Conan McKegg already made a Looking ripoff with Jed Brophy's son. Nobody cared. - Being Tina would mean being too busy to attend Question Time. Being Tina would mean being too busy to write songs. My advertising results reflect the truth: I'm simply more popular than you. My songs are more likely to receive funding than yours, so you're lying to steal them. If my films and songs have become professional-level, while yours aren't, then you're attempting to cash in on my experience and knowledge to seem woke and skilled. Most people in LA think that AMPP was a broadcast television series. That's how good my webseries of me walking around Wellington was. - If a mainstream film or series about gay people could influence public policy, then why didn't Queer Aotearoa cause gender expression and human rights to become important? Why wasn't there a first reading of Debbie's Bill immediately following the release? I've been pushing that particular issue forward for several years; you haven't. Don't pretend to tolerate me, then shove that Stuff article at me like the threat that it was. If it's so important to have representation on TV, then why aren't your scripts on TV? You have to accept that I refused. You have to make your own gay drama.

I can't be the icon who does it for everyone. You all have to front up a lot more. What if you all started attending Question Time? What if GMA sent Debbie's office an email every week asking for a progress report? What if conservative gays were lobbied by GMA to tell National MPs what's what? What if InsideOUT paid for a documentary like the one I've suggested? Melie Kerr wants to come out: turn that into dosh. - All this part-time trans stuff that the Gen Z are doing is actually affecting our movement. If you're not full-time, then you're not a visible minority. We've done all the soft, mushy stuff about how one feels inside. The remaining issues are about being a visible minority facing discrimination. That's why I slammed GMA's Wellington head. He's a part-timer with a kink business. He's - being rude to make my point - the essence of what the conservatives are saying. Conservatives think we're all just faking it, and one can feel like a woman but be a man. They're also saying that it's all a sexual thing. You coddled babies aren't helping my cause. - To compare, I worked at RNZ for about 9 months while visibly out. I came to Question Time while visibly out for much of the last four years. I lived in the Wellington CBD while out for several years. I'm still out in Johnsonville, and have faced discrimination for being so. Reducing my entire career as a journalist, editor and director to 'Amanda dresses up' is the reason that you're not the prominent trans personality, while I am. Unlike you lot, I refuse to be put back into the closet or turned into a commodity. Please enjoy my AMPP series for what it was, then make whatever crap you want. Regardless of promises you made, Weeded Out is not your legal property. Imagine if I tried to steal your apartment or house from you... That's why they call it intellectual property. It's the product of my hard work, not yours. Mr. Barr isn't gay. Mr. Cain and Ms. Tse are part-time fakers. The SFO is investigating the Weeded Out saga. Charges are a likely outcome. If GMA took money from those pricks to bully me, then I want a formal apology.