I wish the general public knew more about more, ah, normal trans people. Like, for Jazz, “trans” is the only personality trait he has and it’s a thing he mentions about every five minutes. There are plenty of trans people who are just trying to muddle through their lives and find a way to live.
In college I had a classmate, a girl named Callie. After graduation Callie announced she was in fact a man named Calvin. (I had had no idea. But I was not altogether shocked as I’d always sensed something was slightly “off” about Callie.) Calvin takes T I guess, judging by the ginormous lumberjack beard she’s acquired, but she hasn’t said anything about surgery and I don’t fucking want to know. Calvin is now married to her female college sweetheart and has a boring federal job pushing papers and likes to do RPG and hiking trips. If you didn’t know Calvin as Callie, you would never know Calvin was trans cause Calvin doesn’t fucking talk about it.
I think Calvin is doing remarkably well under the circumstances and feel a lot of sympathy for her given her problem. But Calvin would never go public as a trans person because that would basically ruin her life, and she wants to stay private like most normal people.
Jazz is a very poor example of a trans person or as a person, period. I am very concerned about other kids following his lead cause they want to be famous. In a similar vein I know some high school teachers who claim they have students, like 14, 15 year old girls, who dream of getting knocked up so they can go on Teen Mom.