KATHY SHAIDLE ON THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW: 

The mastermind behind Rocky Horror, and the original Riff-Raff, Richard O’Brien, has long labeled himself “third sex.” If anyone can claim original gangsta trans cred, it’s him.

And yet, here he is:

“I agree with Germaine Greer and Barry Humphries,” he said recently. “You can’t be a woman [just because you’ve had a sex change].

“You’re in the middle and there’s nothing wrong with that. I certainly wouldn’t have the wedding tackle taken off.

“That is a huge jump and I have all the sympathy in the world for anyone who does it,” O’Brien added.

“But you aren’t a woman.”

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