![]() You’ve proven to yourself that you’re capable. When I was younger, I saw things I could not overcome as obstacles instead of challenges. Self-determination, accountability, and personal responsibility became really big factors in my success. That informed a lot of my options outside my transition. I realized that where I wanted to be and what I wanted to be was not going to be handed to me. ![]() Why do you think that is?īecause being trans you have to do shit yourself. Interestingly enough, the further along in my transition, the further I changed politically. Where were you at in your transition when all this ideological change was happening? I’m sure I will have more ideological or personal changes in my lifetime, but this is where I’m at now. It was being young and not having the willpower, desire, or ability to build my life from the ground up, which is what I have done now. Before that, I was on the complete opposite side of the political spectrum. It was the year before I started YouTube that I began to come into my own thoughts and beliefs. At one time though, you were a far-left, progressive social-justice warrior. You don’t really fit into the right or the left, but you say you lean right. I really used YouTube as an outlet to discuss my politics without being made to feel like an outcast. But at that particular time I was a college student, and in addition to my peers disagreeing with me, my professors did, too. I mean, I’ve lost friends over my YouTube channel, but now I have a new set of friends and peers. I couldn’t openly talk about that without backlash or losing friends. I made the video because, at the time, I wasn’t in an environment that would accept my opinions. My first video was a criticism of feminism. What compelled you to do the first video? ![]() Everything that has happened is very surprising. I had a light from Target as my professional lighting. I was a broke college student with four roommates that I never should have been living with, and I started YouTube on my little 4 ADP webcam. I started my channel two years ago, and in that time so many things have happened. YouTube has changed my life in more ways than I probably even realize. Welcome to the wild, wonderful world of Blaire White. With a documentary being made about her life for WAG TV, her recent engagement to boyfriend Joey, and her growing number of followers, White is at the top of her game. Did we not mention that White was born a dude? (Yeah, I know. The debut? A vlog detailing the intense round of plastic surgeries she had to complete her transition to becoming a female. But most recently, she started branching out from politics and doing personal videos. She debates other YouTube stars who disagree with her views, often uploading the unedited two-hour debates for her fans to watch. She’s criticized Black Lives Matter (the backlash was so intense the FBI got involved), feminism, transgender politics, fat-acceptance, and rape culture. On her YouTube channel, White mostly sticks to politics. And though there are many people who love her, there are just as many who hate her. White is young, fringe, and no-holds-barred, a strong millennial voice brave enough to address the culture war and question the narrative. She made a short video criticizing feminism, uploaded it you YouTube, and thought nothing of it.Ĭut to a few years later, and White has become a provocative and popular voice in the political conversation between self-made commentators like Dave Rubin of the Rubin Report, Ben Shapiro of the Daily Wire, comedian Joe Rogan, and YouTuber Laci Green. Frustrated by the lack of political diversity on campus and by the militant brand of feminism that was taking over her peer group, she decided that if she couldn’t debate with her friends, she’d talk to her computer. White was 20 years old and regretfully studying computer science at college. ![]() The 24-year-old Northern California native just needed a place where she could talk about her political views, which were becoming increasingly unpopular with her progressive, social-justice-warrior friends. It Takes a Trans Icon to Be the Queen of Controversyīlaire White never thought she would end up making a living from YouTube.
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