Sweet Sixteen: A Transgender Story
India metro to give transgender staff housing after discrimination row
Transgender train workers: 'Don't pity us'
Transgender woman's selfies document transition
Our World: Transgender Family
Transgender actress slams new movie for portrayal of trans women
The Natives: This is Our America (Transgender teen Sky and his friends join thousands of other Native activists)
Texas backs transgender bathroom bill
Transgender choir heads showcase line-up
Caitlyn Jenner: 'Being transgender is very difficult'
The transgender tailor who died in Saudi custody
The transgender family where the father gave birth…"We named him Revolution."
Transgender teen: 'Never been so sure about anything'
The Health Show with Nana Akua: U.S. Cancer Treatment, Obesity and Transgender Trials.
Emma Britton: 17/05/2017: New homes, Bristol East constituency & a transgender police officer
Everyday Ethics: Welfare and Transgender: A welfare state for the 21st Century and coming out as transgender at age 90
'Air horn orchestra' protest for transgender rights
Transgender woman banned from pub's ladies' loo
Guyana's transgender activists fight archaic law
This World: Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best?
Survivor: Transgender contestant Zeke Smith outed
Sunday Sequence: Welfare, Transgender and a Quaker's Utopia
The ad that's gone viral because it sticks up for transgender rights in India
'Anti-transgender' bus is met by protests in Boston
HSBC adds new transgender titles including M and Misc
...and on and on and on it goes. Where it stops, nobody knows.
Turns out the voice I vaguely recognised on the radio belonged to Eddie Izzard. So, he was probably talking about transvestism, but his reminiscences were couched in broader, gender-fluidity terms. presumably because transvestism - the former comedian's perversion of choice - is so much yesterday's thing. Look for "transvestite" or "transvestism" on the BBC site, and the pickings are extremely slim. Been there, done that, bought the lipstick and the high heels and the little black number... mission accomplished. Poor old Eddie, stuck in a deeply untrendy minority: the caravan has moved on, leaving him behind, slathering on make-up and tights and shrieking "Look at me! I'm a victim too! Honestly!"
Bad luck, mate - you've got to have your bits off, or, at least, be considering gender reassignment surgery, to make it onto the BBC's radar these days. You were only on Book at Bedtime because you used to be funny, you've run a lot of marathons for cherridee, and you hate the Tories.
A headline in The Independent last July read: "Number of British people seeking to change their gender soars." Well, yes - with the humongous quantity of propaganda being pumped out by our state broadcaster, much of it directed at children and adolescents, it would, wouldn't it?
As you are obviously well versed in this subject could you clear up the following. If a male is deprived of his member permanently [say, Jake Barnes in "The Sun Also Rises" who was awarded a medical DSO] or temporarily [say, John Wayne Bobbitt whose name evokes the number "9" which is either the length of the operation to re-attach or something else. He ended up making classic porn films like "Bobbitt Uncut" and "Frankenpenis"] can he call himself " a transgender male"? I must look more closely into this interesting modern pre-occupation.
ReplyDeleteNot forgetting Tristram Shandy, who suffers an unspecified injury to his membrum viriile at the age of five when a sash window inadvertently crashes down as he's peeing out of it. There's a lack of clarity as to whether the accident results in circumcision...or worse.
DeleteI recommend not looking "more closely into this interesting modern pre-occupation." At least, not on the internet - and, if you do, definitely avoid the Google "Images" button!
It might be worth noting the opinion of an academic who knows about this subject :
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/johns-hopkins-psychiatrist-transgender-mental-disorder-sex-change