Except that it doesn't. We can certainly listen to anecdotes from people who the topic seems relevent to, but thats all it is. Anecdotal If anything, adding a preface to include your own -blam!- only stands to weaken your argument overal. If your only defence is "I'm Bi" you haven't critically thought about the subject. Its the reason two trans people can land on different opinions to what constitutes pandering. Because being Trans isn't a qualification for validity. A trans person growing up in the Bible belt of the USA, or the middle East will have a wildly different view of what constitutes virtue signalling than someone trans growing up in say, California, or Canada. If anything, You, as a CIS person might be better qualified to identify a pandering, or fake comment made by a corporation than a trans person if that's you area of expertise, or if your personal position has put you in areas better suited to recognising those acts, in fact, sometimes being removed emotionally from an issue means you're even better suited to making that call. Don't be so quick to assume someone is qualified just because they fall into the subject matter, we trust doctors on how to treat a broken bone even if they've never broken a bone for example. That isn't to say that the individual experience a trans person has isn't Valid, it just isn't the only valid opinion in the room.... By a long shot.