There is a show called 'Lip Sync Battle'. In it, 'celebrities' compete by lip syncing a song, whether it is as a performance or just standing there doing it. One memorable episode had Tom Holland (Spiderman, Uncharted) against Zendaya (Spiderman, The Greatest Showman). Now the show was good in itself, but it is the reaction channels where I saw the blatant hypocrisy and bias that being transgender has to deal with every second of every day. So, for her big number, Zendaya came out as Bruno Mars and did '24K magic'. Everyone's reaction to this was normal, they thought she did a good job and looked eerily like Mars in her get-up. Then, Tom Holland came out. He started as himself doing a bit of 'Singin in the Rain' before the stage shifted and he appeared as Rhianna doing 'Umbrella'. This is where I got disgusted at the reactions. To a person, they were shocked, stunned, or literally freaked out. I remember sitting there after watching a few of these channels and being so pissed off. They all acted like it was in good fun that she did her bit, but when the male did the same thing? They lost their minds. Even a few gay people were freaked out that he did this. I really have not watched the show since. This was not the first time this happened over this show and a few performers who decided to buck the norms by 'lipping' a song by someone of another gender, but this one is particularly egregious. It shows that our collective behavior towards those who are trying to establish who they are instead of who others think they should be has a long way to go. (it really doesn't. but those evil types who prefer to lord over others just cannot stop trying to push us back into the stone age.)
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