Gender Fuck Thursday: Will & Harper Edition

Now isn’t this a perfectly heartwarming way to Gender Fuck your Thursday? Comic Will Ferrell and former SNL head writer Harper Steele made a documentary about a cross country road trip the two friends made after the latter’s transition. I feel like Harper’s story has the potential to move a lot of people, heck I was moved by this 2-minute trailer. Something about the combination of allowing trans people to tell their own stories, coupled with the familiar safety of a beloved figure like Ferrell – gosh, how relatable it all feels.

Now, excluding contemptibly avowed transphones like that horrid wizard lady and squalid space man, I think most people just suffer from lack of exposure to trans people. It’s the same as gay rights, before people came out in larger numbers many people thought they didn’t know any gay people. So now, as more trans people find the space, community and resources to come out and transition it’s more important than ever for us to support them. These cynical efforts to separate the L, G, B from the T and Q is unacceptable. As if hate is somehow stopped by hating on another underrepresented and marginalized group. So I plan to watch this and hope it will open some hearts that might not ordinarily be opened. We all deserve a place in this America, it’s all of our country. And don’t let them forget it.