Phoenix
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Just last week I was shopping at a store where I heard an early '80s song, and was glad to hear it. On the way home, I vaguely remembered that the MTV music video involved a circus. So I look it up on YouTube and the trip down nostalgia lane brings me to a fairly creative music video of a pre-adolescent boy riding a carnival ride where he gets to peep on a good amount of T & A and, at the end of the ride, he is an old man.
Then, I find the comments section of the video is flooded with RIP messages. Apparently, the boy in the video was Robert Arquette, and then later Alexis Arquette. Silly celebrity-worship websites describe Alexis as an actress and "advocate for transgender rights". I don't know of or care about her film career, but I vaguely remember a TV show aptly called The Surreal Life. I did watch a bit of this and formed the opinion that Alexis Arquette had a strong sense of humor.
This is is why I mention her on this thread: it appears there is some controversy about her death. She was transitioning back to being a man. She'd had HIV for some time, and therefore her body wasn't so great at fighting infections. Could it be the infection that killed her was from the surgery involved in transitioning a transgender back to the original gender? How complicated that must be!
Internet and probably TV reports that she died from HIV complications, which seems to be true. But the larger picture here is that a representative for "transgender rights" (or issues or awareness or straight-up propaganda--whatever your personal buzzword is) was ultimately unsatisfied with his "gender choice". Any thoughts about this?
The song, by the way, was The Tubes, "She's A Beauty".
Then, I find the comments section of the video is flooded with RIP messages. Apparently, the boy in the video was Robert Arquette, and then later Alexis Arquette. Silly celebrity-worship websites describe Alexis as an actress and "advocate for transgender rights". I don't know of or care about her film career, but I vaguely remember a TV show aptly called The Surreal Life. I did watch a bit of this and formed the opinion that Alexis Arquette had a strong sense of humor.
This is is why I mention her on this thread: it appears there is some controversy about her death. She was transitioning back to being a man. She'd had HIV for some time, and therefore her body wasn't so great at fighting infections. Could it be the infection that killed her was from the surgery involved in transitioning a transgender back to the original gender? How complicated that must be!
Internet and probably TV reports that she died from HIV complications, which seems to be true. But the larger picture here is that a representative for "transgender rights" (or issues or awareness or straight-up propaganda--whatever your personal buzzword is) was ultimately unsatisfied with his "gender choice". Any thoughts about this?
The song, by the way, was The Tubes, "She's A Beauty".