Dear Milo,
As a member of the LGBT+ community, I find your videos disheartening. I have spent a few hours watching and rewatching your material until I could stand it no more. After watching most of your videos and thinking very hard about your stance on many topics, I have only a few things to say.
First: to degrade the help of an ally and dismiss their attempts to help is abhorrent. You stated that if a cisgendered person offered their support to you by informing you that they are not transphobic, you would be offended? Why? Because you believe that they are ignorant? How ironic. Denying support from someone kind enough to reach into a community they are not in is odd and unsettling. Trans men and women want cis people to respect them and help make the world safer...why don’t you? They do not think they know everything about being transgendered or even think they are perfect as you stated in your video, “How to be an Ally to Trans People.” Allies want to help and support, and to turn that away and advise other trans individuals to do the same is silly and unhelpful to the cause.
Second: you fume over people mis-gendering you, yet you post videos titled, “How To Be a Gender Confusion,” and pride yourself on your non-passing, androgynous appearance. To non- LGBT+ members, this gives the whole community a bad name. It is fine to be a non-passing, non-binary transmale, but keep in mind that strangers don't know that you are trans, and due to your real effort to actually confuse people on your gender, how could you think that it is OK to be angry when people are actually confused about what gender you identify as. That is not only discouraging to potential allies, but also very immature to become angry over mis-gendering when you seem to want that when you post videos…
Third: The Pride Parade is known quite well for its sexually explicit content. This is the celebration of sexual liberation and freedom for those who have been oppressed. I understand you are asexual and aromantic and PDA might cause severe discomfort for you, but this celebration is not to honor the plight asexual people and aromantic people have gone through since there are no acts of violence/hate crimes committed against Ase and Aro individuals. Since you also identify with queer genders, enjoy that section of the parade and mingle with other people who also share a similar story. It is extremely disrespectful to imply that the celebration should stop due to you being “uncomfortable,” the community needs to stick together and represent each other well, and for someone like yourself to be so involved in LGBT+ and not support allies or Pride is as confusing as your own representation of your gender.
If you ever see this Milo, I am not being malicious. I want to point out the flaws in your logic and arguments so you can rep the way you should and possibly have an easier time on your channel. I want to remind the allies and the non-community members that just because a few people might hold quite controversial views does not mean the whole community shares them -- start or continue to support the rights for all LGBT+ individuals.
A mad member.
P.S. If you have no clue who this person is and why they got me so amped up, here is his channel!
