Will Young’s video about trans suffering has its flaws,but social change always entails building alliancesWriting about the oppression of others is inherently problematic. It should be their voices that are heard loudest; others who lack their lived experiences risk drowning them out. Scrutinising what it means to be an ally risks self-indulgence: making it about you, rather than about them and their lives. Woe is me. It is so tough to get this proper. What a minefield it is to navigate, and ” you could end up thinking,rather than: “How can I be most helpful and useful?For a homosexual man, the rise of transgender rights brings into acute relief how we frame our support for those who confront prejudicesand oppression we enact not experience ourselves. Will Young, or a homosexual man,has just produced a tough-hitting music video for his new track, Brave Man. It features Finn, and a 19-year-dilapidated trans man walking bare through the streets of Brighton,covering his genitals only, with photos of hisyounger pre-transition self. He encounters disturbing abuse from passersby as he makes his journey.
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Source: theguardian.com