AwarEness
A Typo, A Blind Spot, and A Bigger Problem
Along with my recent interview with the LGB Alliance, I had a great opportunity to showcase my skills in design and animation for the organization. 🎨✨ To me, this was more than just a project—it was a chance to add recent work to my portfolio, something that might help me re-enter society and find employment that actually utilizes my talents. That’s all I’ve ever really wanted.
I wasn’t just distracted—I was completely overwhelmed by realities related to my detransition. These issues have shaken what little foundation I had and left me feeling isolated. 😞 There are things I’m not fully at liberty to speak about publicly right now, but what I can say is that the stress and pain caused a level of dissociation that blurred my focus as I worked on a detrans awareness infographic and logo set for the LGB Alliance. 🏳️⚧️➡️🏳️🌈 I checked the visuals, the messaging, and the layout over and over, making sure every detail was right.
But one thing slipped through: a simple typo. I misspelled awareness as awarness. 😬 A minor mistake, right? The kind of thing spellcheck or a quick review should have caught.
But here’s the kicker—no one noticed. 🚨 I sent it off to the LGB Alliance. They published it in video format and on their blog. People saw it, shared it, engaged with it. 📢 And yet, not a single person pointed it out. No one brought awareness to the missing “e” in awareness.
At first, I felt embarrassed, and then I felt completely defeated. 😔 But after some self-examination, I realized I was being overly harsh on myself—another effect of the conditioning that has shaped me for so long. That’s when it became clear—this wasn’t just about a typo. It was a metaphor for something much bigger. Something that should be discussed.
🔎 The Parallel: What Goes Unseen, Goes Unquestioned
This tiny oversight mirrors how gender ideology operates in society. 🏳️⚧️❌ It mirrors what happened to others, to me, and what is STILL happening. Things that should be obvious—like the harm done to detransitioners, the rushed medicalization of vulnerable people, the erasure of same-sex attraction—go unnoticed, unchallenged. 🚫 Just like my typo slipped through, so too do massive red flags in how gender identity is pushed as an unquestionable truth.
People assume what they see must be correct. ✅ If it looks official, if it comes from the right sources, if enough people say it, then it must be true. My graphic looked polished, so no one thought to question the spelling. ✍️ In the same way, when institutions, activists, and medical professionals push gender ideology, most people don’t scrutinize it. They trust the “experts.” 👩⚕️ They assume that if something were wrong, someone would have pointed it out by now.
Except, just like my typo, the errors in this system are right there in plain sight—if only people were willing to actually look. 👀
🏛 The Bigger Picture: A Society Conditioned to Overlook
Society has been conditioned to accept things at face value, to overlook inconsistencies, and to avoid questioning the status quo. 🤖 This is what helps foster the perfect storm 🌪️ for gender ideology.
We live in a world that prioritizes affirmation over inquiry. ✅ ❌ Where questioning is equated with bigotry. 🚫 Where even the people suffering the most—the detransitioners, the regretful, the suffering, the ones who were misled—are ignored or dismissed. 😢 The warning signs are there, just like my typo was there, but people skim past them.
🔥 The Takeaway: Real Awareness Requires Real Critical Thinking
As for me, I’m a professional artist and designer who’s been trained in both receiving and giving thoughtful, quality critique. So I see this as a self-critique, and honestly, I kind of wish society functioned in the same way.
If a simple, obvious typo can slip through without scrutiny, its easy to see how entire ideologies can take hold without question. 🏗️ Real awareness isn’t just about accepting what’s presented—it’s about critically engaging with it. 🤔 It’s about slowing down, looking closely, and being willing to say, “Hey, something isn’t right here.” 🚩
The next time you see something that doesn’t quite add up or seems a little off—whether it’s a typo or an entire movement built on shaky foundations—don’t just assume someone else has already caught it. It’s okay to question.
Be the person who actually brings awareness.🔍