In a classic no true Scotsman fallacy, Miss TG has lost her crown.
The winner of a national transgender beauty pageant has been stripped of her title amid accusations she was a drag queen and “not transgender enough”.
So what is transgender enough, then? You see, I have gender dysphoria. Have done for fifty-odd years. So, I’d love to know.
But six months on she has had her title removed after organiser Rachael Bailey claimed she was shown footage of the model in boxer shorts.
The pageant runner branded Jai a ‘drag queen’ and accused her of not living full-time as a woman.
I know plenty of TG people who don’t live full-time. Presumably none of them qualify, either.
Underwear is very important to transgender females – one of the first thing people do is change their underwear as it makes us feel like we are finally a woman.
Ah… so it’s underwear. Nice to know. It’s this kind of bullshit that tends to make me reject the idea of a transgender community. As Jai Dara pointed out:
Being transgender is not some exclusive club. There are many of us in it and we are all different from one another.
Well, quite. We are all different. The level of dysphoria people experience will differ in intensity – some can live with a little dressing from time to time. Others have to go full-time and transition. I fall into the former category and have no plans to transition. Clearly, I am not transgender enough… Ahem.
I admit this one had me boggling more than a little. The argument seems to be based on the idea that boxer shorts and a t-shirt – as opposed, presumably, to figure-hugging lycra – are the exclusive preserve of the male; surely it is preposterous (and discriminatory) to insist that a transgender woman may not exercise the same freedom of choice as those of us born female.
And where, I wonder, does all this leave the many Japanese ladies who have, in recent years, adopted the practical fundoshi – the traditional male loincloth – for wear under dresses in hot weather?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundoshi
Yeah, I’m agog.