So much of that is great - I love the way he shows up the absurdity of self ID with his “I’m trans because I say I am” - but I personally could have done without what I saw as denial of/apologism for child abuse at the end. And to an extent also denial/minimising of the reality for trans widows. Very few of whom, if any, would feel able to speak about their husbands like that while still married to them and subject to major gaslighting, I suspect.
Telling the girl effectively that she should still love her dad even though he’s a narcissistic twat whose actions are directly harming her, that she should gloss over her own distress, is not a message I’m happy to see being promoted.
But it’s a common theme in all sorts of film and tv portrayals of emotional abuse of children by parents, which is generally not trans related at all. He’s still your dad/she’s still your mum; your mum/dad still loves you really; you only get one mum, etc, etc. Always the onus is placed on the child to accept emotional abuse as a normal part of life, not to recognise it, to suppress their own feelings about it in the interests of understanding and being supportive to the parent who’s hurting them.
Yes, I know this is a comedy ultimately, but I get sick of these messages being repeated everywhere. What that man is doing is not just ridiculous, it’s also a form of abuse of his wife and daughter and real people in a parallel situation get really hurt by it. And their hurt is too often dismissed or underplayed as it is.
childrenoftransitioners.org/
But still. Good to see the “I identify as an eight year old girl” idea being made as ridiculous as it truly is.