The Trans Dilemma – Human Dysphoria & the Life of Brian
by Gavin Ashenden:
As so often, Monty Python got there first. The Life of Brian placed a mirror before us.
In the amphitheatre the hopeless revolutionaries are sitting plotting in a corner. But Stan keeps interrupting:
“Why are you always on about women, Stan?”-
After a long pause Stan mutters, “I want to be one….. I want to be a woman. From now on I want you all to call me Loretta.
Reg: What!?
Stan: It’s my right as a man.
Judith: Why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
Stan: I want to have babies.
Reg: You want to have babies?!?!?!
Stan: It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.
Reg: But you can’t have babies.
Stan: Don’t you oppress me!”
When I first saw the film, I laughed and laughed. The comedy was sharp and brutal. But tragedy and comedy lie very close together. I’ve only recently seen the tragedy. A friend of mine has a teenage child who suffers from gender dysphoria, and the whole family has had to make this frightening and strange journey together.
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