I realise I'm a bit late coming to this, but I would also say option 4 - I believe that the reader should have enough faith to stay with you and hear the truth as you experienced it; someone who didn't live what you did shouldn't be able to force you into silence because they don't consider it credible.
And I guess there's the bigger picture, that I feel like trans people are forced to edit what they say about themselves and their experiences a lot to fit in with what they feel those around them will receive without becoming hostile or freaking out, and it's sad seeing that happen again from a trans artist/storyteller and blogger. Plus one hell of a lot of trans people attempt suicide, and I feel as if what you were going to say could mean a lot to someone who may also have attempted suicide but survived it.
(That person isn't me, I haven't tried to commit suicide, but I feel like your fear of how others will judge what you have to say is causing something important that others may have gone through and also been unable to talk about to be censored - and it may really help any such people to be able to read about what might have been a similar experience in the aftermath.)
I could be very very wrong about a lot of that, but please think about it.
PS - Shouldn't that be "without the color blue" above?
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Date: 2011-10-18 10:01 pm (UTC)And I guess there's the bigger picture, that I feel like trans people are forced to edit what they say about themselves and their experiences a lot to fit in with what they feel those around them will receive without becoming hostile or freaking out, and it's sad seeing that happen again from a trans artist/storyteller and blogger. Plus one hell of a lot of trans people attempt suicide, and I feel as if what you were going to say could mean a lot to someone who may also have attempted suicide but survived it.
(That person isn't me, I haven't tried to commit suicide, but I feel like your fear of how others will judge what you have to say is causing something important that others may have gone through and also been unable to talk about to be censored - and it may really help any such people to be able to read about what might have been a similar experience in the aftermath.)
I could be very very wrong about a lot of that, but please think about it.
PS - Shouldn't that be "without the color blue" above?