Not in the way you think lol
So I'm out at work. I don't pass or want to. I'm getting comfortable with the idea of calling myself "butch" after restricting myself from it for a while. I work at a progressive media outlet that wants more queer programming. They want ME to make the queer programming.
I am so flattered, but so shook. I'm so afraid that I'm going to do something wrong and paint a target on my back or somehow embarrass my sisters. There's plenty of reasons I could come up with that I'm not the right one for this position; I have not been "out" very long compared to most people, the nonpassing thing, ... I'm honestly getting more worked up as I write this post so I'm going to try to stop thinking about why my brain says it's a bad idea, lol.
I don't want this to be a bad idea. I'm incredibly flattered that my boss has confidence in me. I'm happy to be in a workplace where my identity is respected. It's just a weird position.
On the one hand, our organization has a lot of older listeners who lean progressive/left but might "not get trans stuff" so I think my boss kinda envisions me making, like, short-form versions of the kind of stuff that Milo Stewart was doing on YouTube back in the 2010s? I have to shoot one this week explaining pronouns and I'm realizing just how uneducated I am. What am I supposed to say about fucking pronouns? I don't want to pull a Contrapoints and say something enbyphobic on the platform I've just been given. Aaaaand I'm realizing that I should take that question to an NB reddit, not the trans girl one lol. Well, learning as I go, I guess!!
I also heard about the fucked up shit going on in the UK where certain media outlets are snooping around in trans spaces looking for transphobic narratives to push as always, and I'm irrationally afraid of being seen as a bad actor, or worse, asking a stupid question and not knowing I should have cut it out, and then getting clipped and having me or someone I care about get targeted by like, a Tim Pool type.
Tl;Dr I am feeling very secure in myself
as a woman but flipped out terrified that I will never be a real journalist

