DOCTOR: How are you feeling today Mr. Smith?
MR. SMITH: Well, I have been feeling a bit nauseous in the morning lately. I'm worried I might be pregnant.
DOCTOR: Mr. Smith, you are a biological male, it is impossible for you to be pregnant.
MR. SMITH: Don't say that! It is hateful and doesn't take into account my feelings!
DOCTOR: Um...okay. What would you have me do then?
MR. SMITH: I want a pregnancy test and an OB/GYN consult scheduled.
DOCTOR: But...you aren't a woman!
MR. SMITH: I want to be one.
DOCTOR: What?
MR. SMITH: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me 'Loretta'.
NURSE: What?!
MR. SMITH: It's my right as a man.
NURSE: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Mr. Smith?
MR. SMITH: I want to have babies.
DOCTOR: You want to have babies?!
MR. SMITH: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
DOCTOR: But... you can't have babies.
MR. SMITH: Don't you oppress me.
DOCTOR: I'm not oppressing you, Mr. Smith. You haven't got a womb! Where's the fetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
MR. SMITH: (Crying)
NURSE: Here! I-- I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Republicans and Conservatives, but that he can have the right to have babies.
RECEPTIONIST: (Sticking her head in the door) Good idea, Nurse. We shall fight the Republicans and Conservatives for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.
DOCTOR: What's the point?
NURSE: What?
DOCTOR: What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can't have babies?!
RECEPTIONIST: (Sticking her head in the door again) It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression by Conservatives.
DOCTOR: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.
(H/T to Monty Python...:)
Get back, Loretta!.........................
Ha! Well-played.
Good dialogue...unfortunately, not that far-fetched anymore.
The surviving Monty Python players are all pretty liberal. I wonder if any of them look back on that skit and regret making fun of the nascent trans movement. Or if not regret, as if they’re now better informed now on what reality is then they were back then.
What was once humor is now today's reality.