I have a memory that will forever haunt me. On tour in 2011, right before I came out, backstage with another band someone started passing around a phone with pictures of Buck Angel on it and everyone, myself included laughed at how “disgusting” a naked trans males body was...

I felt so fucking ashamed afterwards... so ashamed

In 2014 when I did my True Trans docuseries I asked Buck to be a part of it and he was down. I listened to him tell his story to my face and he was so kind and it was so fuckin humbling and inspiring to me

A couple years later Buck was in town and my daughter and I had breakfast with him. I enjoyed his company and was so glad he was down to earth and real with me

Last night Buck responded to a tweet of mine with some support. I’ve been having a hard time. And I responded back with love. That lost me around 500 “followers” and awarded me a couple death threats... all from trans people

I just do not have it in me to denounce or condemn another trans person... especially one I have spent time with and whom has been kind to me... especially one whom I will forever carry the shame of “making fun” of in a previous life