Alcohol Poisoning (Helen Boyd on the Chloe Prince Piece on ABC)

[NicholeW.]

Alcohol Poisoning
Helen Boyd, enGender, 7/22/09, 12:04 a.m.

http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/07/22/alcohol-poisoning/

I've been drinking.

Sadly, it was a lot of the same old same old: cursory interest in parent, partner, & children. The kids were adorable. The wife was determined. The father was exhausted.

• Multiple shots and references to surgery, instead.

• Trans woman discovers surprising, sudden interest in men.

• Expresses longing to be mother while wife is pregnant.

• Voiceover talking about wife meeting her husband for the first time "as a woman" post Thailand, even though the husband had been living in female gender role for a year as per SOC.

Atypical trans documentary bits?

• Added insult to injury for wife, while trans woman wonders – fleetingly – if she's married her ex-girlriend if she'd have needed to transition. Fleetingly, stressed by Prince, but goddamn do wives of trans women everywhere hate her for that one. Yeah, thanks, it's our fault you needed to transition. Do you really think we don't wish, sometimes, that you'd married your ex-girlfriend, too?!

• Newly female husband going up telephone pole in gear

• "  "  " mowing lawn with reference to still "wearing the pants"

• 'out of the mouths of babes' testimony that natal female still does all the parenting and housework

• bee stings lead to discovering of IS condition which justifies transition. (the years of crossdressing certainly don't count for ->-bleeped-<-, right?)

[Julie Marie]

It will be interesting to see how this whole thing shakes out. I guess if ABC gets a lot of press on it, good or bad, then they will have done their job. I wonder if Chloe realized how this would make her look within the community. Outside it, I don't think many, if any, picked up on the absurdity of the bee sting thing.

For us, it's another bizarre expose on trans people that probably leaves most people believing we are selfish, confused and weird. But let's face it, no one with their head screwed on straight will ever get on a show like this. It would be too boring.

Julie