Problem: the face of the modern day train movement is a failure in both messaging and substance. Most people can't relate to trains at all and their political platform makes no sense to them. Their most prominent figures are inscrutable, to say the least.
However, even those of us with slight chud leanings are aware there are trains who just want to lead their lives without being a nuisance to the general public, who won't put you in a headlock for misgendering them, and are currently the victims of political crossfire.
Plan of action: trains need an engaging, non sexual, NON POLITICAL tv series where they're interacting with normal people much like the makeover show Queer Eye For the Straight Guy, which—along with the sitcom Will & Grace—was a groundbreaking show for its time. Homosexual men have intuitively understood what kind of media presence would gain them mainstream acceptance: be nonpolitical, be attractive, be non threatening, be funny.
Why haven't transpeople pursued the same?
Trains need a popular normie show where they don't browbeat people about gender ideology. Where they don't bring up the issues of bathrooms, sports, or children. Where they don't cry about transphobia. And OF VITAL IMPORTANCE: where they cast only non threatening, charismatic, and attractive trains.
Just pulling these examples from the top of transtimelines, they need to cast trains that look like this:
https://old.reddit.com/r/transtimelines/comments/1ida40i/1821_11_mo_to_33_mo/
Or this:
https://old.reddit.com/r/transtimelines/comments/19cm73x/i_still_have_the_jumpsuit/
Or this:
Gather attractive and entertaining trains, preferably with a good sense of humor, and make a show where they help regular men and women with different struggles. Put their competence, helpfulness, and amicability on display. It's important to show them displaying skills and helping people normies can identify with.
What sort of struggles could trains help with specifically? Not quite sure, but It might be something like helping normies blend into an unfamiliar situation or territory. Here's a transman giving other transmen advice on how to fit into a male dominated workplace…such advice could easily be given to a struggling spergy or effeminate man as well:
https://tiktok.com/@thegravelbro/video/7319501409366314286
Remember, the vital thing is to remove all politics and sexuality from such a show. Most people associate transpeople as being gratingly political (or perverted) because this is the essence of their main, and probably only interactions with trains online.
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Interesting idea. I think a major hurdle is that men feel instinctively, literally threatened by the thought of being gay. A more attractive train may be more threatening to them. Most straight men don't like drag queens either, and RuPaul's Drag Race already exists.
For the general cause, I think letting FtMs be the "face" of trans people would be better. They're not viscerally threatening to anybody, and the idea of trying to become a better man is appealing to most men. Focus on fitness, fashion, handiness, and self improvement content. Maybe the trans men could be helping unfashionable or out of shape cis men focus on their goals, but I think it'd be better if they were just working together. Part of what raises hackles about gays is when they're presented as some kind of magical negro sexuality. Women seem to like this, but men really don't, especially if (in this case) the threat is that a woman might be a better man than you. So instead let cis and trans men bond over their shared goal of becoming manlier. This would also be generally man-positive content in a time when liberal media culture is dumping on men.
As for MtFs specifically, I think the goal should actually be to desexualize them. Don't pick hot ones over ugly ones. Just pick ones who look a little "mannish" but basically just want to blend in and live their lives, and dress them in neutral clothing. Then focus on some completely different aspect of their lives. Unfortunately MtFs get hit with the eunuch/male feminist dichotomy, so it's in their interest for the public to see them as "eunuch" (not literally asexual, just someone whose sexuality is rarely considered by people who don't know them).
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I have zero intentions of reading all of that crap
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