A clip is going viral on social media showing the moment a trans-identifying man who thinks he’s a woman realizes he looks like a “man in a dress” while trying on wedding gowns.
The clip, which is from an episode of TLC’s long-running show “Say Yes to the Dress,” features a very obvious biological male with close-cropped hair and a deep voice trying on various wedding dresses at the iconic Kleinfeld Bridal in New York, but not finding any that flatter his not-at-all-girlish frame.
“So I know this pads can be removed,” he complains to the dude helping him sort through dresses meant for women’s frames, motioning to the bust area where he has…well, no bust.
“Right now it’s giving me very…drag,” he whines, as the employee nods along. “Very like, you know, it doesn’t feel like me. I look like a man in a dress, and that’s not what I want.”
Man tries on a women’s wedding dress for his wedding on TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress.
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“It doesn’t feel like me. I look like a man in a dress and that’s not what I want.” pic.twitter.com/MqTmV0zEyN
Except that’s exactly what he is - a man in a dress. And it’s not the fault of the tulle, the satin, or the poor designer who stitched them together to force science to conform to your fantasy.
And yet, that’s exactly what the bridal store clerk promises, saying that “you know exactly what you want, and whether I have it or if we have to create it together, it’s out there.”
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The gender-confused man then laments that he “want[s] that fairytale ending, and I’m scared that I’m not gonna get it.”
If that fairytale includes actually being a woman, then no, honey. You’re not. It’s called DNA, and it doesn’t care how many sequins you try to sew on to cover it up.
Of course, TLC is happy to ignore that reality in favor of featuring gender-confused men on their show that originally began with female brides shopping for their dream wedding gowns. While the majority of its "clients" are still women, the show, which has been on the air since 2007, has showcased multiple gender-deluded dudes in recent years, with its first trans-identifying not-a-bride showing up in a 2018 episode. Since then, the show has included at least four other men who pretend to be women crammed into miles of satin and silk in an effort to beatify that undeniable Y chromosome.