A transgender solo performer has never won the Edinburgh Comedy Award. After four decades, that could all change this year. Jordan Gray is one of the contenders for the prestigious £10,000 prize, sponsored by the Dave channel, to be handed out this Saturday.
Her show is cannily called Is It A Bird? which references the gender issue and also nods to a superhero theme that runs through the performance. How, Gray asks as she swaggers around, is it easier for some people to accept Bruce Wayne identifying as a flying creature in Batman than it is to accept Gray identifying as a woman?
