The Transphobe Bait and Switch (aka The Transphobe Motte and Bailey)
May 25th, 2023 Barry Posted in LGBT cartoons | No Comments »
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Did famous transphobes really say these awful things? Yes, they did. Receipts are here.
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TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has four panels, plus a little “content warning” panel above the top of the cartoon.
The little content warning panel shows a cartoon of Barry the cartoonist speaking directly to the reader.
CAPTION: Content Warning!
BARRY: This cartoon’s dialog is based on some hateful things respected real-life transphobes have said. Seriously, what’s wrong with these people?
PANEL ONE
Panels one through four show three people talking and walking through a park. From left to right, there’s a redheaded woman in a black skirt; a man with messy black hair wearing a plaid shirt; and a woman with long black hair, wearing a t-shirt with a drawing of the planet Saturn on it.
In panel one, REDHEAD looks smug; PLAID is yelling at SATURN, raising his hands in the air; and SATURN is walking away from the other two, looking irritated.
(Chicken fat watch: They’re walking near a stream, and a scuba diver and a fish are each sticking their heads out of the stream to watch. In the background, Walt from the comic strip “Gasoline Alley” is looking at a piece of paper.)
PLAID: The trans movement is one of the most evil movements in history! Puberty blockers are like Nazis experimenting on children in concentration camps!
PANEL TWO
A close-up of PLAID shows him yelling and waving his fists in the air.
PLAID: You’re child abusers! You prey upon impressionable children and indoctrinate them into your insane ideological cult. You are poison!
PANEL THREE
The “camera” pulls back out. REDHEAD continues looking smugly satisfied. PLAID is so angry that he’s pulling his own hair. SATURN has come to a stop, angered by what PLAID is saying.
(Chicken fat watch: Behind a bush in the foreground, Bert and Ernie are chatting with each other).
PLAID: Trans people are fucking blackface. You’re men who get sexual kicks from being treated like women. Fuck you, you pathetic, sick, fuck!
PANEL FOUR
REDHEAD and PLAID have turned and are now walking away from SATURN, who is well in the background, furious, swearing and giving them the finger. REDHEAD is talking cheerfully as she texts on her phone; PLAID is no longer yelling, but still looks angry.
(Chicken fat watch: A couple of huge worms are sticking their heads out of holes in the ground. One is looking wide-eyed at the characters, the other is grinning at the readers.)
REDHEAD: I’m telling people that trans activists are mad because you believe in biological sex.
PLAID: I was being so reasonable! “She” only got mad because she hates women.
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