Trans People Forgive Me for Writing the Secrets

I think I've mellowed a little bit since I told you your room. A lot of people who have been really upset by the book are upset because they're like well this is a trans experience it's like very powerful and full of shame and stuff but it's not my trans experience, she says. She wants to basically be like I was never trying to represent you in the first place. The way to deal with that alarm and the feeling of threat isn't to like intellectually argue your way out of it but to like kind of acknowledge it and be like yeah you're having that experience and I'm sorry that you've gone through things to make the stuff that I've written so kind