In a previous post I wrote how I was contacted by the university magazine, VOX, from my own univerity, because of my initiative to set out an organisation for transgender and transsexual students here in the Netherlands. After a month of postponing I finally agreed to be interviewed, for the first time in my life someone else will write about me in a publication which will be read by more people than I personally know. It won’t make me famous, it’s not like I’m doing anything spectacular which could create a hype, no way, I’d run away if I were hyped in any way. And I don’t expect anyone coming up to me afterwards asking me: “Aren’t you that tranny???”. Although there do live silly people in this world who might act that stupid, on the other hand it’s not like I was invisible in a crowd before this day. I stood out with my appearance many times, nowadays that’s far less I guess, I’ve become a bit casual to be honest.

So I’ll be interviewed, tell a bit about my situation as a transsexual student, tell about my initiative, GenderQontrast, and it’ll end up on one page of VOX. People whom I know will come up to me and tell me how much they respect my openness about myself and how amazing my initiative is. People whom I don’t know, especially the ones whom I hope to get into the organisation will hopefully contact me. Certain people whom I don’t know, whom are journalists, might contact me because they too want to interview me. So there will be at least a small attention peak towards me, this will also happen to be because there’ll be a press-release from my side to present my initiative. That way I hope to be in control of when all the attention comes toward me, I’m not really someone whom likes to be in the spotlights, I’m too modest and a bit shy. There are actually more important things to be taken care of, like gathering enthousiastic people with whom I can really set up that organisation. Only with a real organisation I can mean something for those other transgender and transsexual students.
We’ll see how much time that takes, I’ll at least make an attempt to post a translation into English of the article soon, which will be in next week’s release of VOX.