People ask me funny things after shows.
People are very attached to their identities, which it's fine.
You can be totally attached to your identity.
However, whether you're straight, whether you're gay, whether you're trans, however
you identify, whatever your words are, it's totally perfectly fine with me.
But people are worried what it means if they pay me a compliment, what it means about their
identity.
No, people, this is weird, because people will come up to me after shows and be like,
oh my God, you're so hot.
You're like Brad Pitt with a vagina.
I'm like, oh my God, I'm the real Brangelina.
That's * awesome.
This girl came up to me, she's like, listen, I am a lesbian.
I'm like, okay, okay.
And obviously the manager of something.
She's like, what does it mean if I think that you're hot?
And I said, it's not you, it's me.
I'm really * hot.
Which, you know, I have to say something.
I spent, as a trans guy, I spent probably 30 plus years.
I spent 30 plus years in my body feeling uncomfortable.
Feeling like, who would ever want to be with me?
Who would ever want to * me?
Who would ever want to be with this?
And for the first time in my life, I finally feel beautiful without the compliments of
others.
For the very first time ever.
Ever.
So.
Finally.
Yeah.
Someone came up to me after a show, too, and was like,
I was in rural New Hampshire,
and this woman came up to me after a show.
She was smoking a cigarette.
Beautiful little rotund woman.
She was beautiful.
She was smoking a cigarette.
She's like, listen.
I don't care what you are.
I want to * the * out of you.
I was like, oh my God, are you on testosterone?
Oh.
You know what?
Another guy, this is another story.
After a show one time, I went up to the bar,
and this guy, he was, let's just say what it was.
He was like a drunken bigot at the bar getting a drink.
He had just seen the show,
and he looks over at me and realizes
that I was the guy he just saw on stage, really drunk,
just all kind of like trying to lean on the bar
and looking at me.
And I love it when drunk bigots,
are so drunk that they can't even slur their slurs properly.
Which is awesome.
Because he looks over at me and he makes,
he recognizes and he puts it together
and he's like, * trans-am.
Did you just call me an 80s muscle car?
You know what?
Don't let people like that bug you.
You know why?
I don't let people like that bug me.
You know why?
Because I know who I am,
and I am who I * say I am.
Yeah, yeah.
That * ain't up for debate.
It's not.
Who you are is not up for debate.
And I know who I am.
I'm a * trans-am.
That's awesome.
That's my new identity.
Right there.