Annya

Like. When I was starting transition, I thought I wouldn't fit in with other trans women because I'm an academically-inclined lesbian with nerdy interests, and my only frame of reference for any trans women at all consisted of the most mainstream-friendly trans women alive: Conventionally attractive straight women who work as fashion models or actresses.

Turns out that in online trans spaces, once you get inside, people like me are pretty common. That's not something anyone outside these spaces is aware of, because trans women's thoughts, ideas and opinions are systematically not platformed in the mainstream.

And the conflation of "images of the type of person you are get a lot of attention" and "the views of your demographic are centered" is a pretty fucking sinister tactic, actually.

Incredible job by the 1980s BBC who decided last minute they needed to quickly explain why Switched on Bach doesn't have Wendy's name on it

Visual is a close-up shot of a photograph of a synthesizer that zooms out to show that the machine is next to a man dressed as Johann Sebastian Bach. The image zooms out until the title “Switched On Bach” comes into view revealing the image as an album cover.

In the background of the narration, a synthesized version of Bach music is playing.

BBC Presenter: The Moog modular synthesizer first became widely heard in 1968 on a record called “Switched on Bach” by Walter, now Wendy, Carlos.

[The words “(sex change)” scroll quickly across the album cover from right to left]

BBC Presenter: It was b-