I don't know if Kirsten's coming out video has been addressed?
(She considers her gender "girl +" so nothing major, but she is nonbinary now! Whatever that means )
What i think is notable is that she basically admits that her "style" and bodypositive stance, that she was so proud of some years ago was a cope.
Like, back in her buzzfeed days Kirsten would be like "i am a proud fat woman, i love my body, i love clothes, i wear dresses because i love that retro aesthetic, it fits just fine. I love to "experiment" with colors and print, look at me opening thousands of ASOS packages, you think fat people should hide themselves, we deserve fashion and self-expression too, i am so happy"
A 2013 "hater" would have answered to this like: "this is a cope, i can see she is drowning her inner pain with overconsumption, she wouldn't feel the need to dress like a cupcake or a 1950's milkmaid if she felt good about herself. All those videos about buying things, mainly clothes and beauty products, exist because it's easy and lazy content to produce and are not really making any meaningful statement about body positivity". She is lying to herself and to her audience"
Fast forward to october 2021 and Kirsten wears a baseball cap & shirt and is "non-binary". She now says stuff like "
she engaged in full high-femness because it felt safe and she felt like she wouldn't be accepted other wise "femininity was something i hid behind and tried to perform as best as i could because it gave me opportunities... there's a lot that goes into making videos... i needed to be aspirational" " it was a very polished version of the truth"
Which is basically the same thing the haters have been saying all along, just, dipped in enough progressive vocabulary to be acceptable. "I drown my pain in cheap dresses made with slave labor" becomes "i engaged in full high-femness".
Even if she denies it it seems like the "gender identity questioning" is contagious,
she admits that that revelation was sparked by her husband trooning out
And again, what the hater said "troonism is contagious, you split the gender hairs enough that you lose sight of reality"
What she says "you have all those conversation about gender you start wondering how they apply to you and start questioning yourself"
Also she is 30 now, a lot of woman adopt a less fem style because they dress more for themselves at this age. It's called growing up.
But now she wants people to use she/they or they/them if they have to choose between feminine or neutral pronouns.
So basically we haters are often right, we are just not polite about it. So it's fair to assume this "non-binary identity" is another layer of cope that she will grow out of in 6 to 8 years (and make a video about, if she is still doing that)
Plus, with the anecdote about her mother asking her not to make a "tell-all book" about her, we can assume her family history is difficult, possibly abusive in some way, and until she heals that trauma it will be more cope.
