Posted on 07/09/2024 5:30:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Singaporean comedian Kumar revealed he considered gender reassignment when he was younger in the latest episode of The Daily Ketchup Podcast published yesterday (July 8).
The 55-year-old, who is promoting his upcoming comedy show Kumar Uncut, was asked if he had ever wanted to be a female.
"Yes, when I was very young. But I changed my mind," he admitted candidly.
When asked to elaborate, Kumar shared that if he had gone through the process then, he wouldn't have been who he is now.
"I would've gone to the streets, I would've ended up being a prostitute," he said.
Kumar also shared the challenges he would have faced.
"I wouldn't be able to work. How was I going to put food on the table? That was the problem last time… In those days, nobody would employ me and I would have landed up on the streets," he added.
Kumar came out as gay in his biography in 2011, despite hinting about his gender identity in interviews and performances before that. He also shared in the podcast that although he had never told his parents before, they had always known.
"My father never asked me. Before he died, he told me, 'You're going to be alone for the rest of your life, so save money.' So he knows actually," he said.
He added that his mother still wishes he would get married but it wouldn't happen.
"Can you imagine walking with your wife when you are looking at another man?" he asked the hosts.
"Both of you can look at the man together," host Daniel Lim joked, as the others laughed.
"That's a threesome." Kumar said.
Notice that he accepts he could only be married to a woman?
I also notice that he thinks that is unethical, because he could not be a husband to her in every sense of the word.
Yes, he has a more rational belief system.
Unlike braindead lefties.
He’s thankfully showing some common sense.
Yes.
Kumar “Uncut”
“...I would’ve ended up being a prostitute”
He’s in the entertaiment business. Who says he isn’t one already.
wy69
For all his moral lapses, he remains rational compared to any Democrat.
I wonder what he means by younger?
I don’t think that I ever heard of gender reassignment until relatively recently.
If he is talking circa 1984 or something-I’m calling it nonsense.
Oops I missed the very young part-
In the late 70’s or early 80’s-I’m to believe that this was being pushed on or even done to kids?
You have it backwards. Now it's called gender-affirming surgery. Way back when it was called sex reassignment surgery, and it was way before 1984.
It was before my time, but Christine Jorgenson had it in the early 1950's in Denmark, and wrote a book about it in the late 60's. Supposedly Sweden had done it earlier.
Renee Richards had the surgery in 1975, and later won a lawsuit to pay women's tennis for five years. Not sure what the birth name was in either case.
I don't know what the name was, but there was a case where someone had SRS, then married a British nobleman. He later found out, and sued for annulment after almost 10 years of marriage.
There was also someone named Tula, who was in an early 1980's James Bond movie, after the surgery.
I’m aware of some of that but we’re talking about a child here.
Sorry I meant to add that was experimental and far, far fr mainstream.
I didn’t mean to imply that it didn’t exist-sorry for not being clearer.
We need to know this why?
Well, I still think it’s far from mainstream, but it’s pushed on us.
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