He learned the behavior

Brian wants us to know that he did the work.

None of this anti-trans nonsense affects my daily life in any way I can perceive. Literally never misgendered, literally no weird looks. I did the work, I got the surgery, I learned the behavior, I updated my documents.

There is literally no reason to make my life worse advocating moderate public policy.

I thought I could help, instead I’m stuck between two insane political projects screaming into the void.

He “got the surgery”. What surgery? There is no surgery that makes a man a woman. He learned the behavior. What behavior? Simpering, batting the eyelashes, giggling, squealing, making dinner and cleaning up afterward?

He’s confusing acting with being. Yes, sure, actors can imitate people of the opposite sex, and fiddling with voice and gestures and reactions can help with that, but it doesn’t make a man a woman. An actor who plays Hamlet doesn’t update his documents such that his driving license says he is Hamlet. Most actors, in fact, prefer to stay very clear about which is the part and which is the performer.

If Wu could grasp that he might be able to stop screaming into the void.

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4 responses to “He learned the behavior”

  1. guest Avatar

    Wait, I thought being ‘trans’ was being your ‘authentic’ self, so what’s this about ‘learning behaviour’…. The guy seems pretty obviously male in real life – I’m certain he’s just managed to stay within a social environment where everyone around him is forced to pretend as hard as they can.

  2. Papito Avatar

    It’s hilarious when these guys appropriate “come out” in this fashion. I expect that nobody who has ever met Wu hasn’t immediately clocked him; he’s straight out of Monty Python.

    Once upon a time, “coming out” was used for people who were gay but the people around them didn’t know it. Or, perhaps in some cases, they suspected it highly but pretended they didn’t.

    In the case of this huge goon with farmer’s hands (who looks more like John Cleese in a dress than the doctored picture on his social media), I guess it means “gives people around him permission to acknowledge what they already knew.” And I’m sure they all obediently said “Oh, gosh, I had no idea at all. What a surprise to me that you are a … woman of trans experience.”

  3. maddog1129 Avatar

    Yes, they “come out” all the time, not to mention all the days of visibility and in-your-face Pride, and Remembrance, etc., etc., and yet . . . And yet it’s somehow confidential and a big private secret, such that it’s a violation of their precious rights to acknowledge out loud or tell anyone that the person is transgender.

    You can’t have it both ways. And you have clearly chosen which prong you want to hang your hats on: You obviously want people to KNOW. You want to be the center of attention because of your transness every minute of every day. You want to flaunt it in everyone’s face, and glory in your special privileges, particularly to stick it to women in as many ways as possible. You don’t have to “come out.” Everyone already KNOWS.

  4. iknklast Avatar

    Yes, they “come out” all the time, not to mention all the days of visibility and in-your-face Pride, and Remembrance, etc., etc., and yet . . . And yet it’s somehow confidential and a big private secret, such that it’s a violation of their precious rights to acknowledge out loud or tell anyone that the person is transgender.

    I was cheered by a letter my husband got from his pen pal (a lesbian) who was disgusted about all the pride days, months, weeks, years…she said ‘do we really need so many pride days?’

    I didn’t mind pride days when they were about LGB (and were a reasonable percentage of days of the year). When they became all about trans, all the time, one of the single most visible groups of oppressed, ignored citizens I’ve ever known, since they manage to put themselves in the spotlight everywhere, let’s just say, I gave up on it. Now I cringe whenever I see a rainbow…which is sad, because there are a lot of rainbows that have nothing to do with trans. Like, Rainbow Brite (fortunately, my son was too old for that when it came out…I experienced it only vicariously through my nieces).

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