‘Thank you so much for all you have done for us girls.” A line uttered to Germaine Greer by a trans woman on the day The Female Eunuch was issued in the US is the echoing refrain of this show from Untapped award winners Charli Cowgill and Laurie Ward.
Greer quoted the line in her 1989 article On Why Sex Change Is a Lie, a luridly dehumanising piece that reduces the trans woman to “it” in “flapping draperies”. As we begin, Ward takes the role of the trans woman in question, while Cowgill plays Greer. We compare their adornments: red lips, blond extensions and silk gown versus pearls, tight curls and the modern uniform of Greer’s intellectual descendants, the “adult human female” T-shirt.
