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Andrej Pejic | Nightline ABC

If anyone is interested, the interview is here: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/guy-doll-man-models-womens-clothes-14524558

It’s amazing how unaware the interviewer is. Some of the questions she asks are just not-so-good. But Andrej handles it with class and brilliance.

Not so good? She’s a complete and utter disrespective, condescending, dismissive, binarist, cisgenderist, heterocentric, insensitive, nattering asshole. Do not watch if you don’t want to be fucking pissed off or even triggered, that’s how far she takes her questions about his personal life, his medical history, his gender, his expression, his sexuality. It’s disgusting. Andrej answers and handles it like the Goddess he is, bless him, he’s too sweet. I wish he would rage out and bite these reporters, though. My fucking christ, rude as fuck, treating him like a gimmick or a circus freak.

Then, to top it all off, “Remember, he’s still a teenager!” No shit, really? You think that now AFTER you ripped him apart and tried to force him in about 10 different tiny little constrictive inane boxes? No, teenage or not, no one deserves that.

Whatever, though. Fucking walk proud, Andrej. You are beautiful.

I’ve come to expect in media articles the use of binary pronouns for non-binaries to the point where I just blink and go “oh, welp” and sigh. Though Andrej doesn’t say so explicitly, I’d wager that the whole not-identifying-as-male thing makes male pronouns possibly inaccurate? Without Andrej saying one way or the other about preferred pronouns, I can’t be sure though.

In any case, Andrej handles this interview far better than I would have. I’d have figuratively flipped a table after the fifth intrusive question. And that teenager line translates as an “it’s just a phase!” excuse to me, which is utter bullshit. I knew when I was a little kid too, and I never “grew out of it” as cis folks were hoping I would.

Also, as an aside, knowing people like Andrej exist makes me feel like less of a “freak of nature” as someone who is often read as a woman despite not being one, and getting harassed for that for most of my teenage to adult life.

That interviewer really doesn’t get it!!