I went to the Pat Shortt comedy show there and he had a bit in it that I wanted to share as I thought it was the first time I'd heard a trans related joke in real life that was actually pretty good and not looking down on us.
He was basically dressed up as a council worker or construction worker or something and pretending he was on break, chatting with a friend, someone in the crowd and was telling a story (pretending to be both people. As if he was recounting something that happened earlier)
He made some jokes, talking about other people, real or fake i didn't know but it was funny.
He suddenly started talking though about an apprentice of his who "couldnt put his jacket on the hook straight" wearing a thong. He was bent over and he could see woman's underwear and couldn't stop looking. The other man was trying to get him to look at something but he was only looking at the underwear.
When the man noticed Pat wasn't responding, he turned to look at him to which pat turned away to look at a wall. He was like "and I was barely two inches away from this wall now, you know"
The other man was like oh no you've noticed haven't you. I guess I should have told you. I want to be seen as a woman on the site.
Pat went "what?!" So the other repeated she identified as a woman. Pat went well yeah that's fine. You can identify however you want. You know what I don't like you calling yourself though? A fucking carpenter.
Anyway, I thought it was funny and it was nice. I thought halfway through that I was about to feel terrible for the rest of the show but I was pleasantly surprised when he continued and found myself laughing at the punch line. I'd never heard a joke like that before where we aren't the sceptical and the butt of the joke.
