Sep 30, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min · 20 segments
We attended Anime Fargo in Fargo, ND and caught up with Trans voice actor Ciarán Strange in a wide-ranging interview which covered topics including being Trans, passing as straight, passing as a…
Ciarán StrangeGuestTim AbbottHostI identify as non-binary because the descriptions have never fitted me, but also because a toxic masculinity isn't something I want to identify with.
Right.
I feel like there are trans guys and, you know, non-binary trans masks who you definitely get a bit of that, like, I don't want to be male because there's such a negative connotation.
That being said, I guess any of that I felt maybe in my early twenties or that fear of sort of like, am I, cause you know, there's that whole, like you're betraying by becoming a man and it's such crap.
But it's like, I look to the men who are positive, like sources of what positive masculinity is.
But, you know, you look at people like your Pedro Pascals, like your Macklemore's, like, you know, your people that are out there sort of, oh my goodness, what was his name who did Reading Rainbow? This is going to kill me.
really good solid like you know i grew up with like art attack you know and like neil was like my boy and he was just this like artistic kind of guy who just was a little bit of feminine but he just loved his art and it's like i find that there's like real positive masculinity you can really cling to you know it's little things to me like holding a door for someone You know, like that, like, you know, where do you get your euphoria jollies? It's like, well, you know, carrying bags for people, holding a door for someone, you know, being a strong sense of safety, maybe when especially female, but when anybody is looking uncomfortable, you know, being able to step in and...
calmly use that privilege to make sure they're okay like there's so many ways
and that's the thing is I don't think that men are evil I really don't and I don't think that to be male is to be evil I feel like in society we've really leaned into that sort of patriarchal sort of way things are for so many years that it's created this very submissive woman and dominant man and that doesn't necessarily need to be the way things are like i know a lot of couples straight couples that are not like that and it's it's really cool to see them working as a couple and and he's a little effeminate or she's a little bolshie and you know it's like they've got this good dynamic flowing together i know couples where he stays at home and she goes to work You know, and he's raising the children.
And I guess I've been very lucky as well to know in my life so many positive sources of masculinity, like be my cousin, you know, Adam or some of my friends that I work with at the studio or your good self.
I identify as non-binary because the descriptions have never fitted me, but also because a toxic masculinity isn't something I want to identify with.
Right.
I feel like there are trans guys and, you know, non-binary trans masks who you definitely get a bit of that, like, I don't want to be male because there's such a negative connotation.
That being said, I guess any of that I felt maybe in my early twenties or that fear of sort of like, am I, cause you know, there's that whole, like you're betraying by becoming a man and it's such crap.
But it's like, I look to the men who are positive, like sources of what positive masculinity is.
But, you know, you look at people like your Pedro Pascals, like your Macklemore's, like, you know, your people that are out there sort of, oh my goodness, what was his name who did Reading Rainbow? This is going to kill me.
really good solid like you know i grew up with like art attack you know and like neil was like my boy and he was just this like artistic kind of guy who just was a little bit of feminine but he just loved his art and it's like i find that there's like real positive masculinity you can really cling to you know it's little things to me like holding a door for someone You know, like that, like, you know, where do you get your euphoria jollies? It's like, well, you know, carrying bags for people, holding a door for someone, you know, being a strong sense of safety, maybe when especially female, but when anybody is looking uncomfortable, you know, being able to step in and...
calmly use that privilege to make sure they're okay like there's so many ways
and that's the thing is I don't think that men are evil I really don't and I don't think that to be male is to be evil I feel like in society we've really leaned into that sort of patriarchal sort of way things are for so many years that it's created this very submissive woman and dominant man and that doesn't necessarily need to be the way things are like i know a lot of couples straight couples that are not like that and it's it's really cool to see them working as a couple and and he's a little effeminate or she's a little bolshie and you know it's like they've got this good dynamic flowing together i know couples where he stays at home and she goes to work You know, and he's raising the children.
And I guess I've been very lucky as well to know in my life so many positive sources of masculinity, like be my cousin, you know, Adam or some of my friends that I work with at the studio or your good self.
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