He Thinks You Might Be Jealous
“You’re being yourself,” says a cross-dressing man who parades around the streets at night in a fetishistic latex maid’s uniform. With bonus dog collar and leash, obviously.
“I’m openly trans now. It’s a lot easier. But that rush will be missed, of having that secret.” pic.twitter.com/wWjnwSXfcT
— Genevieve Gluck (@WomenReadWomen) August 30, 2026
But he doesn’t want to talk about his sexuality, because “it’s complicated.”
At risk of seeming insufficiently affirming, what I see is a man being consumed by his own sad and grubby fetish. Not, I think, the most obvious basis for applause. Or indeed pride.
But hey. Modernity, baby.
We’ve recently mentioned how the realities above are difficult to convey in a normal social situation. Consequently, you may encounter people who wish to be seen as supportive of all things trans, because they’ve been watching the BBC and therefore know almost nothing about the phenomenon that they feel obliged to be seen supporting.
And so, you may find yourself in a social situation where nodding along or some affirming noise is expected, and you may then have to decide whether to sidestep the subject or introduce the other person to a world they may not care to enter or wish to spend much time in. But which is a very large part of what it is they’re affirming, if, perhaps, unwittingly.
And which isn’t necessarily what you want to think about when, say, having a meal with friends or coffee with the neighbours.
Lifted from the comments, which you’re reading, of course.
That. ☝️
I think it’s okay to use the term tiresome pervert.
To what degree he chose to be the person he is can indeed be complicated. But whatever personality, likes, dislikes, mannerisms, etc. he chooses, he is not a woman.
Added: still amuses me when comments fail to post on threads like this to get the message “Nonce is invalid”.
Also amusing, when I went to double-check the word meaning I see this:
Now don’t let me catch any of you calling anyone a nonce unless they have been convicted in a court of law and all appeals have been exhausted. Slang or no slang.
“Nonce is invalid.“
I’m getting a word….
Ooh. Pub lunch.
[ Prepares for heavy gorging. ]
An obsolete meaning which I used to encounter in old books:
Next door to the pub is a genteel tea room. It is currently occupied by little old ladies ordering pots of tea and fancy cakes, and a dozen burly, leather-clad bikers.