Trans Identity, Community Perspectives, and Bridging Political Divides

This clip episode explores the significance of diverse perspectives within the trans community, emphasizing that differing opinions should not divide but enrich community dialogue. 

Shelbe Chang and Thomas Barnes share personal experiences and discuss the importance of embracing individuality while fostering unity to overcome fear and promote resilience. 

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

I do see a lot of people in our community. It's not taking this very lightly. I have friends, supposedly friends. I'm friendly on social media because of my posts, because of my political view and I believe, bottom line, we don't want to forget our community trans community it's, it's very diverse. It's it has different walks of life of people with different experience, different background, different race, different ages. Right, so also in this sense of politic view, we should have a diverse point of view, different perspective, different voices. Right, Different can be also different opinions, if you want to put it that way. Right, so we shouldn't like attack each other or hate each other, because our reason why our community, trans community, is so unique is because we're diverse. We are, we are inclusive with different people and that's what makes us different, right? Agree, thomas.

Speaker 2: 1:14

Yeah, I totally agree.

Speaker 1: 1:16

Yeah. So I want to share some, some, some comment. I'm not trying to expose anybody who's wrong or good, it's just a different opinion, different perspective, right? So this comment that I received after I post a Trump win and it shows what he's already doing after 48 hours of his winning and I get a lot of comments backslash and one of this particular guy I don't think he's a trans person, I think he's one of the members of LGBTQ+ and he is commenting on that post and he's saying he's kind of shocked that I was even posting something like that and I'm a Trump supporter. He's shocked and I basically replied very respectfully. I said well, the reason is because I look at things a little bit different. I look at a bigger picture, I zoom out my point of view and I want to be. You know, the reason we want to transition is we want to be who we are as an individual, but also blend into the society, right?

Speaker 2: 2:47

Does that make sense to you, thomas? Yeah, it makes total sense to me. Yeah, I was under the personality of general consensus. You want to be a part of society, not held at arm's length or passed over, right? It seems to have morphed into a more personal aspect of me, me, me. I'm like I get that, but even you know, everyday regular people aren't getting me, me, me.

Speaker 1: 3:19

I know you think they are, but they're not yeah, one of my government is to be about society yeah, one of I start off saying that I don't want to victimize myself, because a lot of people in our community I do understand why, because I've been there- it's an easy thing to do.

Speaker 1: 3:40

I've been there myself. So I know and it's because of fear and because of what people are telling us or the media information, you know, try to make us afraid and that's why we feel small, but we are not small. You know, try to make us afraid and that's why we feel small, but we are not small. You know, if we have the courage to become who we are, we are the most strong person, human being, that we can be. So don't let that forget, don't forget about that, because I have to remind myself this all the time, you know, because I have to tell myself I have come this, I have has come to this far. There's nothing should, you know, scare me or stop me. Right, and and and sometimes I forgot about that part myself as well, because of the noises, the distractions. So bottom line is, while you just say individual I did in my response, I did kind of mention that as well I say I just look at a bigger picture, I don't just think about just me, me, me.

Speaker 1: 4:47

And it's also come down to, if we talk about economy, it's micro versus micro, you know, individual person's idea, decision versus massive governments. You know systems, matrix, you know. So what do you experience so far after the election in the community.

Speaker 2: 5:17

Ooh, ooh, so far after the election in the community. So far, what I've experienced is a lot of not a lot actually, not a lot of fear really, but I have seen some people are just outright afraid that they're going to be kicked off the curb or shoved in the closet. And you know and I'm like no, I don't see where things are going that way. But I can understand how you feel the fear of that.