But it’s not about you
A female comic and healthcare worker says she has been spat at on the street and shunned by long-time colleagues for daring to put on a performance about biological women.
Award-winning funny woman Elaine Miller’s Fringe show Viva Your Vulva: The Hole Story has been the target of abuse from those judging her as a “transphobe”. She says that at the end of the Edinburgh show she makes a reference to the importance of language in getting across healthcare messaging.
Like not saying “people” should get tested for cervical or testicular cancer? That kind of importance of language?
Her crime she says is not mentioning transwomen because they are “not relevant to the topic” of female biological anatomy.
Ya that kind.
In an interview with the Scottish Daily Express, Ms Miller said the show is about anyone with female anatomy, including trans men and non-binary individuals. She said: “I think my crime is that it’s only about female people and I don’t mention trans women at all because they are not relevant to the topic and that seems to have upset people.”
You know, somebody should lock Trump and trans women (yes all of them) in a room to duke it out for Who Is Most Self-obsessed On The Planet.
I worry that might set up some sort of super vortex that would suck us up and everything in the universe might spin out of control with the sheer force of the vanity and narcissism. But I’m willing to take the risk…
The overall take home message from this is that we shouldn’t talk about anything that doesn’t involve transwomen…no, change that, anything that doesn’t center transwomen.