Along with engaged on her music throughout lockdown, Kim additionally reveals she’s been testing the waters within the performing world and shall be a part of the LGBTQIA+ courting app Grindr’s first-ever authentic content material TV collection known as a comedy groomsman.
“I really like Grindr, interval. I feel it is so cool that they create content material,” says Kim. Whereas she’s not desirous about particular particulars of the challenge, it does lead us to speak about courting and I ask if she ever makes use of courting apps. “In fact all my pals use Grindr, however no, I do not,” she says.
“Once I was a child and I used to be on TV I assumed it was bizarre thus far on-line as a result of then I must put transgender in my stuff. After which swiftly, individuals who solely like transgender girls would contact me, and I would suppose, oh, however I need to be seen as a lady. I do not need somebody who simply needs a transgender particular person, does not see me as a lady… So I’ve all the time solely dated pals of pals, and other people I’ve met in actual life.”
Kim additionally factors out the very actual hazard that transgender girls can face on courting apps. “Violence in opposition to transgender girls is so actual, and particularly in America,” she says. “It is fairly harmful being a trans girl on courting apps. Should you do not make it public and somebody finds out, somebody would confuse you.”
This unhappy actuality leads me to ask Kim what she thinks are the most important challenges going through the transgender group right now.
“I discover it exhausting to see violence in opposition to trans girls on a regular basis, particularly in America. It is exhausting for people who find themselves always attempting to ban transgender individuals from going to the bogs the place they need to go,” she tells me.
“Some international locations are extra progressive than others, however I feel on the whole so many individuals have by no means met a transgender particular person and nonetheless do not know that these transgender individuals are regular individuals. And I feel there is a concern round trans folks that’s like, ‘Oh, so that you wakened at some point and now you need to go to ladies’ restrooms?’ It is simply not what it’s in any respect.
“I feel the principle factor that should change is the training about it, that it is one thing that is been round for ages. “I all the time marvel why individuals care a lot about different individuals’s lives. I feel anybody who needs to vary their gender or regulate their gender to how they really feel inside ought to do it. And why would you need to say something about it?”
We focus on how it’s the concern of the unknown and the concern of distinction that causes a lot prejudice, which works again to why celebrating Pleasure is so vital.
