Boy meets Girl

• Posted by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor September 8, 2015 Filed in Society Girl's Personal Blogs 1,477 views
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  BBC2 commenced their Trans Comedy Series on monday evening, to great acclaim from the gerls, but not the press or me. It is my personal conviction that anything that raises public awareness of our 'plight' is beneficial to our increasing acceptance within the broader community. By this process we present an increasingly formidable lobby to the politicians and in this country, Parliament.

  Personally, I enjoyed the laughs, in a 'Mrs Brown's Boys' manner, until the dinner conversation: at that point, I burst in to a flood of uncontrollable tears. The throw away line was in response to Harry Hepple's question 'what was it like?'. Rebecca Root replied 'born in a prison with no parole date'. Cheap laughs at the expense of opening a wound again in a recurring nightmare scenario which has been a heavy cross to bear for all the years before i eventually somehow found the courage to 'become myself and happy at last. I do not think that this series will give our community much credit in public acceptance; and, I fear it will help return us to the music hall characters who cross-dress for laughs ( Old Mother Riley, in my case ) in public perception. I like to think of myself as her side-kick, Kitty, if I have a choice when we next appear 'on-stage', or film.

  My recurring nightmare is to be written up and published by my dear sister, Hannah E, in the near future. It does, incidentally, have a happy ending, and I promise to post a version here.

  Meanwhile, I resign myself to not watching the rest of the series, in accordance with the comments in the press ( Daily Telegraph and Independant ). I am happy now, and see no reason to be upset again by an ill-thought-out attempt to put our case to the public in an inappropriate, boring and tired format.