More of us should do it to play them at their own game. From the Telegraph:
Now here’s a trend I didn’t see coming. According to an article in Metro, there’s a shameful new phenomenon known as “transfishing”. This, apparently, is “when cisgender people (those whose gender identity aligns with their sex at birth) pretend to be trans for personal gain”.
In case you’re still in the dark, here’s an example. The other day there was a furious uproar online after two female models on OnlyFans – a pornographic subscription service – were accused of pretending to be trans women (who are biologically male). In a caption, they described themselves as “two boys”. Meanwhile, they both appeared to have stuffed objects down the front of their knickers to create a bulge.
In short: here, it seemed, were two females trying to look like males trying to look like females.
Naturally, this made a lot of trans activists very angry. The two models were told that they were “fake” and “disgusting”. One trans commenter wrote that it was “incredibly disrespectful and frustrating to see them profit off our bodies”. Another thundered: “Don’t get in our space.”
I’m sure we can all sympathise. It must be distressing when members of another group invade a space traditionally reserved for one’s own group. Equally, it must feel insulting when they insist that they actually are members of one’s own group, when anyone with eyes can see that they aren’t.
None the less, I think we should defend the two models. If they say they’re trans, then they are trans, and that’s that. Because, as we all know, anyone who questions someone else’s gender identity is a hateful bigot.