{"id":58625,"date":"2017-12-05T14:15:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T19:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/outrage-at-a-boy-in-a-dress-belies-a-deeper-problem-and-i-know-because-i-was-one\/"},"modified":"2017-12-05T14:15:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T19:15:46","slug":"outrage-at-a-boy-in-a-dress-belies-a-deeper-problem-and-i-know-because-i-was-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/outrage-at-a-boy-in-a-dress-belies-a-deeper-problem-and-i-know-because-i-was-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage At A Boy In A Dress Belies A Deeper Problem; And I Know Because I Was One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Outrage At A Boy In A Dress Belies A Deeper Problem; And I Know Because I Was One<\/b><br \/>\nWe <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">live<\/a> in a current climate of outrage, where everyone reserves the right to be offended by whatever they choose. Then those that have committed the offence then turn the tables claiming autocracy and the death of freedom of speech. People cry \u2018witch\u2019 as much as they cry \u2018witch hunt\u2019, like some cyclical never ending version of The Crucible we are all living in.<\/p>\n<p>This week I was lucky enough to see the brand new musical Everybody\u2019s Talking About Jamie at the Apollo in London\u2019s West End about a school <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boy<\/a> who wants to be a drag queen. While it was both excellent, moving and uplifting, it highlighted the attitudes people can have about someone who is different and in turn highlighted for me the state of transgender rights in this country, and that by comparison is a pretty poor show at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start from the beginning with a bit of my own story. When I was seven our class at my all <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boys<\/a> school were asked who would like to play Mary in the nativity play. While the details are hazy for me, apparently I was most enthusiastic in my bid for the role. On opening night, my parents recalled how \u2018convincing\u2019 I was as the mother of Christ, clutching my swollen womb screeching \u2018my baby\u2019s coming!\u2019 with gusto. I went on to play Josephine in Gilbert &#038; Sullivan\u2019s HMS Pinafore and won the school acting cup at nine-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what it was that drew me to playing these roles but I was comfortable and happy when playing them. The same couldn\u2019t be said for when I tried dressing up in <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girls<\/a>\u2019 clothing outside of a theatre environment. I remember getting the telling off of a lifetime the two times I gamely put on my sister\u2019s or her best pal\u2019s clothes and pranced about with glee. Why would wearing them on stage be so different? At my age, I didn\u2019t understand and felt ashamed of having upset my father.<\/p>\n<p>Cut to today and the debate rages on, but now it has much more sinister undercurrents. Since John Lewis decided to remove all labels dictating whether garments were made \u2018for a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boy<\/a> or for a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girl<\/a>\u2019 there has been a gradual shift. When the Church of England recently released a report that a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boy<\/a> should be able to wear a tiara and a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girl<\/a> a dinosaur t-shirt without scorn, it seemed like even more of an uproar.<\/p>\n<p>For the church to say this, I was impressed what with their shady history on LGBTQ rights and no doubt <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> people up and down the country were as well. Because that\u2019s what this is really about isn\u2019t it, <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> people. Dressing up is not the same as being <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a>. Gender identity is an innate thing and, with the Gender Recognition Act currently being debated and rewritten because <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> people are still not equal under the law, the scaremongering has gone into overdrive.<\/p>\n<p>By feigning outrage at how \u2018damaging\u2019 and \u2018confusing\u2019 it is for the other kids in school to see a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boy<\/a> in a dress (it\u2019s not and kids, unlike their parents, are infinitely accepting, until taught otherwise).<\/p>\n<p>Kids were also \u2018confused\u2019 when children in their class had two mummies or two daddies but it\u2019s not confusion, it\u2019s intrigue and when it is explained to them, they accept it straight away. But same <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> marriage isn\u2019t the issue in the UK now is it, that battle was won and now the new hot topic is transgender rights and by starting with kids in school, you hit at the heart of what can rile parents up the most and they can say whatever they want as it\u2019s \u2018their kids\u2019 they are protecting from all this awful \u2018confusion\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend I got into a heated debate with a Daily Mail columnist who claimed incredulously that I \u2018loathed free speech\u2019 because I criticised his stance on <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> rights and deigned to agree with the laws on discrimination in this country. No, I don\u2019t think you should use your own bastardised version of religion as a weapon with which to bash vulnerable people or just people different to you.<\/p>\n<p>His minions came on me like a pack of militant hand wringers, calling me a \u2018drone\u2019 and citing bogus Twitter accounts \u2018proving\u2019 how I was wrong on <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> rights. It was scaremongering, using isolated incidents to say that violent sexual predators were posing as transgender <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> in order to infiltrate <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">female<\/a> \u2018safe spaces\u2019. If a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> wants to attack and rape a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a>, he doesn\u2019t need to go to the trouble of pretending to be one. Trans <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> are some of the most at risk of violence and abuse in our society so who does it benefit to ban them from places like rape crisis centres or even bathrooms?<\/p>\n<p>I then turned to the Sunday Times only to see a full page on \u2018The Transgender Investigation\u2019 with three consecutive articles negatively portraying <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> people. The first about how apparently half of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> prison inmates are <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> offenders, claiming to be <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> in order to be closer to and to assault <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>. The next about a poor therapist fearing she could be struck off for saying to youngsters that being <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> could just be <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">teen<\/a> angst, and then the final piece was about the Women\u2019s Equality Party being \u2018captured\u2019 by the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> lobby.<\/p>\n<p>It feels like being anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> is one of the last prejudice\u2019s it\u2019s \u2018ok\u2019 to have. People don\u2019t understand it, so they fear it. There are so many nuances within being <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> that critics latch onto the smallest and basest of its facets. The different stages and the myriad of terminologies put people off to the point where they write it off and because there are relatively few visible <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> people in everyday life, they don\u2019t see them or befriend them so they don\u2019t know how difficult it can be.<\/p>\n<p>Years later in my <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">teens<\/a> I tried on one of my sister\u2019s dresses when everyone was out, stuffed one of her bras and put on a bit of lippy. My heart raced as I had those feelings that it was wrong. When I was younger, was I doing it because I was a little <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boy<\/a> who wanted to dress up, or because I was a little <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boy<\/a> that liked to be naughty? It felt fun and since then I\u2019ve done two plays in drag and enjoyed them immensely. But for a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> person it isn\u2019t a \u2018bit of fun\u2019, it is life and it is a life long struggle.<\/p>\n<p>A friend was working on a TV show recently and the producer happened to be a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a>. Whilst filming in the street a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> came over and said to my mate \u201cWhat is that? What is it?\u201d, gesturing to the producer. My friend, who as a Muslim <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a> knows first-hand what discrimination feels like, told him in no uncertain terms to get lost and leave them alone. Concerned that she had heard, my friend spoke to the producer who simply said that she had heard everything and that it happens all the time.<\/p>\n<p>So when we have national newspapers contributing to what is already a hostile environment for a vulnerable group it reminds you how much work there is still to be done. While Jamie in the West End got to be a drag queen and I won my junior acting cup, life is a whole lot different for the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> people who, even when it\u2019s suggested they may use the bathroom of their choice, are then vilified and harangued into feeling more discriminated against that ever.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/outrage-boy-dress-trans-rights_uk_5a218bc0e4b0545e64bf929d\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/outrage-boy-dress-trans-rights_uk_5a218bc0e4b0545e64bf929d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outrage At A Boy In A Dress Belies A Deeper Problem; And I Know Because I Was One We <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">live<\/a> in a current climate of outrage, where everyone reserves the right to be offended by whatever they choose. 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