Three snippets on a theme.
First up, because we’ve been starved of irony, some news from Brazil:
Felipe Santos Silva, who has adopted the name Erika Hilton, told the Chamber of Deputies that the Committee should focus on women “without exception in their dignity and plurality,” and included transvestites in his definition.
Because when you think of the dignity of women, you immediately picture drag queens.
Mr Hilton, a member of the Socialism and Liberty Party, has responded to his critics – people suggesting that perhaps the president of a Women’s Rights Committee might be an actual, you know, woman – by denouncing them as “LGBTphobes” and “defenders of paedophilia.” Which may strike readers as a little rich, given statistical realities.
On which, more shortly.
Mr Hilton has filed a criminal complaint against one of his critics, via the Public Prosecutor’s Office of São Paulo – and demands for the equivalent of $1.9 million dollars – on grounds that said critic failed to perceive Mr Hilton as a woman. A failure to affirm, or indeed to hallucinate, that Mr Hilton has seen fit to construe as “violence.”
And because a cake needs icing,
Meanwhile, in the laugh-a-minute world of transgender Reddit moderators:
And from Rhode Island’s educational bureaucracy:
But remember, dear citizen, these are Things That Never Happen.
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