In a stunning display of courage, a white British Tik Tok influencer has revealed to the world that he identifies as Korean. Oli London has been getting plastic surgery for several years in an effort to, as a Newsweek article puts it, resemble “their K-Pop idol, Jimin of BTS.” I have only a vague idea what any of those words mean, but the upshot is that now London, who also identifies as non-binary, has completed his surgical transition and is ready to fully live his life as the gender fluid Korean that he’s always been deep down. For too long he has had a Korean trapped inside his body, and now, with $150,000 of assistance from cosmetic surgeons, his true East Asian self has emerged like a bruised and swollen butterfly from a fleshy cocoon.
In a video recorded just after his latest procedure, Oli explains that his surgically adjusted eyes and nose and other features now confirm him as a tried and true Korean. Bigots might voice disagreement, insisting that one must actually be from Korea, or at least have Korean citizenship, in order to be considered in any sense Korean. They might even argue that surgically narrowing your eyes to resemble Asian facial features not only fails to make you Asian, but is also insulting and degrading to the real Asians, of which you are not one. But Oli deftly countered these arguments in a series of tweets, disarming and debunking such discriminatory talking points. “Being Transexual is the same as being transracial because you are born in the wrong body,” he wrote. In other tweets he announced that “trans rights are human rights” and that “there are millions of underrepresented transracial people in the world and I want to elevate their voices and help them live their truth and be themselves.”
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