Interviewing an Open Minded Person (by ClosetTransgender)

This is one of the videos where Forest interviews cis friends about their views on transgender issues, why they feel that way, and about their own gender identities.

I like how he turns around the usual situation where trans people are the constant object of questions, and the only ones asked to explain their genders. Here’s are two fragments:

Forest: “Do you think of me as a normal male friend, or is there something a little different? How would you explain that?”

Friend: “Hmm, that’s an interesting question. Well, my male friends have a range of maleness. I don’t know if there really is such a thing as a normal… I definitely think of you as one of the guys.” (…)

Friend (when asked about his own gender): “In our culture, we’re given a model of masculinity that’s often unhealthy… So it’s an interesting balance between rejecting the bad parts of the male story but also loving myself as a man, accepting myself as a man; being in touch with the good things about being a man and really embracing that.”