It pisses me off that they try to trans all the funky dudes. Nah, they were just groovy men.
I see posts like this from trans rights activists all the time, and it needs to stop.
Bowie, Tyler, Lou Reed, Bolan and Iggy Pop showed there was no wrong way to be a man.
Makeup, heels and femininity didn’t make them women and they never said it did.
Calling them “trans” imposes an ideological framework on their work that wasn’t there. It portrays trailblazers who challenged sex stereotypes as followers of a doctrine.
That’s rewriting history, and it’s enormously disrespectful to the artists and all of us who were liberated by them.