I am happy to be visible to other trans people, to people who might actually be trans and not yet realize it, and to cis people who want to use that visibility to advocate for me and people like me.

I'm not happy to be visible to people who want me hurt or even dead, and I am not happy to be visible to people who want to use me as a wedge to hurt others.

@xgranade You might be interested to know your visibility and open discussion about various subjects related to transiently likely have influenced me positively. I'm a white cis het man, not specifically interested by LGBTQIA+ thematics. I started to follow you (and several other people who turned out to be trans) as a quantum information colleague long ago. But your open discussion on the problems, from small annoyances to more vital difficulties, made me more sensitive to them, and, more importantly, more careful than I would have been otherwise when interacting with trans or queer colleagues and students