Devon carnival forced to apologise for unofficial float

[McDuffy]

TRA showing themself to be pretty humourless... enjoyed both the article and the comments so far though

Carnival sorry for ‘transphobic’ Olympic float with men in drag

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dbace25e-03a8-11ed-aa15-45d37b45dc0d?shareToken=c9e2767a8a0b2a3ba0e4756da85527fd

It would be the full Monty up to date.

Love it! With Devonian accents who's playing Maurice?

"What if people noticed I was trans" Hahaha, the vast majority of people can tell at a cursory glance that someone is trans (and anyone who can't is either scarily unobservant or lying)

Interesting how Donna describes the men as wearing singlets. I see sports bras and crop tops. Not a singlet in sight.

Donna clearly thinks that certain clothes are worn by men, others by women. The name of the item depends who is wearing it, it seems.

Sports coach knows what's what. And so clearly political commentary, not poking fun at transwomen at all.

So a trans person is complaining about someone dressing up as the opposite sex?!

Hang on....

Trans women are women, yes?

And there's a long tradition of men dressing up as women for comedy and entertainment. Pantomime dames, drag queens, Cissie and Ada...men have dressed up as old women, young women, powerful women, tragic women, funny women, dumb women, stunning women, slutty women, nuns...they've dressed up as women to honour women, to affectionately take the piss out of women and to utterly insult and degrade women.

So....why should trans women, and only trans women, be off limits for men to dress up as? Isn't that kind of othering?

We need more men dressing up as trans women! I for one look forward to the first drag act whose character is a trans woman. Now THAT will be really challenging some stereotypes!

Is it that men are OK, carry on, if they just ridiclue, humuliate, hurt, kill women?

But god forbid if anyone says or does anything that upsets a trans identified man?

Double standards? Hypocrisy? Patriarchy?

This...

I thought it was quite funny

This has to be made into a movie. I vote for Daniel Craig as Maurice Cockwill, the former athletics coach who is gutted that his girls team are being robbed of their medals. I would watch this. It think it also has an afterlife as a musical.

How the hell is one supposed to tell the difference between one male person dressed in women's gendered clothing and another male person dressed in women's gendered clothing?

It's just not logical.

Yes! I bet people would kill to be in the chorus line.

Maurice Cockwill. I salute you.

I came back to read the rest of the thread and wondered what K Monty had said about it all!