Do they PAY for this crap?
Well thank god there’s so little going on in the world that the BBC has time and space to report on a guy who couldn’t find trans underpants. Sadly it doesn’t have time to explain why it’s telling us this. The lede:
A trans man said he locked himself away every month when he menstruated because he could not access trans-friendly underwear.
What does the BBC mean “said”? Said when, where, to whom? What a bizarre amateurish way to begin a news story – “somebody said something.”
It goes on in the same dopy amateurish way, with a series of “said”s minus any context.
Jay-Harley Rees, 28, from Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, said there were not enough spaces where trans and non-binary people felt safe in small towns and rural areas.
He said he had to put on a “fake deeper voice and pretend to be a lad just to go to the shop”.
Rhi Kemp-Davies, a non-binary therapist, said changing your appearance as a trans person to “pass” was often done to avoid violence.
What do you mean “said”??? Is this an interview, or something overheard on a bus, or what?
It’s a very long piece by BBC standards, full of glurge about packing and binders and living authentic lives.
I said that.
C’mon, it’s not easy being the only trans in the village. This stuff comes literally pre-satirised.
A 28-yr-old woman who identifies as a man had to put on a “fake deeper voice and pretend to be a lad” in order to go into a shop? How is this anything other than an explicit admission that being trans is just role-playing? And why is the woman who identifies as a man role-playing a lad – a boy, in other words – rather than pretending to be an adult?
The more they talk the less sense they make
“And why is the woman who identifies as a man role-playing a lad – a boy, in other words – rather than pretending to be an adult?”
I saw this phenomenon for the first time last semester with a writing student (natal female) who was undergoing transition. She’s probably around twenty, has taken testosterone and grown facial hair and developed a deep voice. The student wears a binder and is awaiting “top” surgery. This student presents perfectly as an adolescent male. It demonstrates how one sex has to struggle to adopt the gestalt of the opposite sex: How “manly” can a born female appear to be? In this student’s case, as manly as a teenager. I wonder, sadly, what her fate will be when she’s forty and hasn’t “matured” into crusty, grizzled middle age as so many men do . . .
I say! I thought trans men are men by virtue of how manly they naturally are. Likewise for trans women. But if so… why the need for coaching?
So Rees herself, or the “people” she’s referring to, or both, are conflating sex with vague, ineffable feelings. And Rees is harming herself because of this.
Say, maybe it would be a good idea not to conflate sex with vague, ineffable feelings? Ah, but that would require changing society. It’s much easier to meet nonsensical standards by pretending to be of the opposite sex and getting bumps developing on one’s ribs from compression, than it is to acknowledge and confront the institutionalized sexism that has led to this whole situation.
Maybe I’m missing something, but can’t tampons or pads be worn comfortably under men’s briefs?
Bruce,
yes women can wear them with both mens and women’s undies, but both those options are too non-binaryophobic to this poor lass. I mean lad. Oh forget it.
If only someone told her that most items in the world are available to purchase over the internet. They can even be delivered if one is too frightened to go to the shops.
changing your appearance to avoid violence?
Sounds pretty fucking womanly…..