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Naked and Transgender: Who’s Afraid of a Few Topless Men?
Legislative Troubles in Scotland: Quick, call the Gender Police
Writers note: I apologize for not being correct in my facts regarding the ruling in the UK and in particular, Scotland. Caulk it up to American ignorance, there seems to be quite a lot going around my country lately. The purpose of this piece was to combine the parallel witch trials of transgender women in both the US and the UK and to mock the stupidity and illogic of the entire situation.
The gender bigots are coming for us everywhere.
I was especially proud of the the transgender women who posed topless at the Scottish Parliament and wanted to give special attention to the brilliance of their protest. In my eagerness to share this news. especially with non-U.K. transgender women, I should have focused a little bit more on the UK legal process but that wasn’t the main goal of my writing, their clever protest strategy was. For that, I am sorry to all of those that took offense for my lapse.
Clearly, that was not my intent.
I couldn’t find a royalty-free copy of the topless transgender women protesting outside the Scottish Parliament. The best I could do was post the YouTube video above, and it made me laugh. YouTube blurred out the nipples…
