Me, The Offensive Tranny, & Dylan Mulvaney
- Apr 22
- 3 min read
Updated: Apr 23
Cassandra Williamson
USN, USMC, USNA '84
I've embedded "The Offensive Tranny" Youtube video by Marcus Dib below. It's about 15 minutes long. Watch it and tell me what your thoughts are about it.
I watched the whole video. There were moments when clips of Dylan made me want to pause or skip ahead, but I watched until the end. Marcus shared some insightful thoughts, particularly towards the conclusion of the clip.
I don't resonate with any trans terminology. It doesn't define who I am.
Thinking scientifically, based on 1950s genetics, I would say I have male DNA, meaning XY genes. However, we've advanced significantly since then. Genetics has improved to the point where we understand that external sex traits form during the late first and early second trimesters in utero. We also know that, under statistically normal conditions, the hormonal flooding of the fetal brain occurs in the late second and early third trimesters, and the genes/proteins match those expressed earlier. So, for 99.5% of all humans, physical sex trait development in the first and second trimesters aligns with the hormonal flooding of the fetal brain during the second and third trimesters. However, like any statistical curve, tails that taper off on either side of the peak. It is now known that the expression of physical sex traits in the first and second trimesters does not always match the hormonal flooding of the fetal brain in the second and third trimesters. It's not an on/off switch; it's more like a slider switch for both events in utero. The physical sex traits are variable, the hormonal flooding of the fetal brain is variable, and so is the intersection of the two events.
For me, external physical trait expression was male (XY), and without a very refined and deep DNA analysis to support my claim, based on my phenotype, my brain was most likely flooded with more female hormones than male hormones before birth. In my opinion, this mismatch in utero is the origin of varying degrees of gender dysphoria in all humans. Gender dysphoria was nearly deadly until I aligned my physical male body with my female identity through corrective surgical procedures.
I use the term transgender only because I have no other good way to describe myself. I know that, superficially at least, I have XY genes. I was born male only because of what happened in utero in the first and second trimesters. That's what people can see when a person is born—just a visual inspection, but they had no way of knowing what was in my brain. I don't use the word 'transsexual' because it has a pornographic connotation. I don't use or even like the word 'tranny' because it's a slur similar to the n-word and heavily laden with pornographic implications.
So, I am just me. A 'me' who uses the word 'transgender' since that's less offensive to me. But it's not who I am. I am a person who experiences gender dysphoria and found a way to manage it through surgeries and hormones.
That's what I am. It's not who I am. The 'who' part does have an ideological perspective independent of transness, one that is informed by and not solely defined by being trans. I try to advocate for transgender veterans and transgender Americans more generally.
However, I am neither Dylan Mulvaney nor Marcus Dib of 'The Offensive Tranny'. Although Dylan is older, I perceive her as being stuck in her teenage years. She is also an activist and a liberal trans person. Even within the trans community, especially among those who align with the more traditional idea of being transsexual, Dylan is seen as a performative teenager trying to find herself by exaggerating female expression to the point where she has built a successful platform from that performance.
Marcus, on the other hand, is older and also more age-appropriate. He knows what he is and who he is, and even though he maintains an image of himself of being non-ideological and nonpartisan, his views of the world and especially of other trans people who may be more performative and thus immature and activists, are more conservative and traditional.
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So. . . I agree with some major points. I believe the current political much ado is a backlash aimed at the Wacko (Extreme, In-Your-Face) Activists - for whatever "cause" - trans, women, race whatever. The Extreme Activists have become the face of the transsexual for the average American and that is unfortunate. Extreme Activists attract the like-minded and alienate most others. What's the point in that? The needle doesn't move and if it does it is back and not forward. No one wins and most just get miffed. And this goes to the issue of DEI for the average American. It is seen as a movement of Exteme Activists. (Note, it is the Extreme Activists who appear to benefi…
I can't watch the whole thing. I was getting nauseated just hearing him try to separate us into weird, made up catagories, using an old outdated term. All languages evolve. Unfortunately, he isn't.
Blocked this Marcus Dib on YouTube. It appears he really hates himself, and wants everyone transgender, and cisgender to hate him. And it seems he's another one of those rabble rousers trying to get all transgender people killed. Also has a strange fetish with fascist ideals. I'd rather hear from people that are positive rather than negative to the whole of the American public.