oh for sure, I'm aware, but I have had my singular youtube account for 6 years or so, and so It's got a bunch of videos on it, and it's got a long list of subscriptions that I can't be assed to move to another account.

I'm lucky that my username was grandfathered in to the new system, and it does not display my real name, and any comments I make aren't shared to my real name google + . That said however, it's a problem that I shouldn't have had to solve. The integration did nothing to "improve the comment section" as it was claimed, it was just a way to force google + on all of their users.

It was a business decision to get more people to use google + (more "butts in seats", as they say), i get it, but it frankly - if I lived in somewhere like virginia, or Texas, or Louisiana, or california 1 2, I could be in some danger if certain people found out I was trans. Facebook's "Real Name" policy - honestly an even bigger problem - has already been used to "out" trans people by assholes who found out about them and decided that they needed to tell the world all about it, and attempt to shame those people. As a trans woman, I have a 1 in 12 chance of being murdered. If I was a trans woman of colour, the number is 1 in 8. This is not exactly small potatoes, friend, this is serious shit.

All that to say, I like to keep my separations in place and I have good reasons for doing so. I am lucky, other people have not been so.