THE WOMAN IN BOBRISKY
Major wahala o. A popular crossdresser was recently announced as the best dressed female at a gathering and all hell broke loose. You can imagine how women in the gathering would have felt that after the usual hours of preparation, it is now a man/ woman that was announced best dressed. As expected, social media went into a frenzy with beautiful actress Dayo Amusa leading the push and fellow ‘mad’ man, Portable even composing a song. Bobrisky, not one to run away from controversy, chimed in: “The sisterhood must accept me…” he reportedly said. Now for me, this throws up very serious issues that we must confront as a society. Yes, there is the law against same-sex relations and all that and we remain a society that largely has refused to catch on with the rest of the world in this matter. Bobrisky, however, throws up an entirely different challenge on the spectrum.
The man says he has gone through a sex change, that he is now a full woman with all the physical accoutrements of a woman. He even goes as far as flaunting some of these things on the media for us to see. I have met her before and hugged her and I must say she feels and touches like a woman. In fact, she looks more like a woman than some of these our women sef. So legally, is he entitled to be seen, called and rated as a man? Do our laws accommodate a sex change the way we can change our nationality? How does the law engage someone like this who has had a sex change and technically, if he goes into bed with a man, is that truly a same-sex relationship? These are the real questions we need to answer both at the level of authority and as a society. Bobrisky’s case from what I have learnt has moved away from the normal crossdresser which is a man dressing like a woman to a man who says he is now a woman Me thinks that the federal government should set up a panel to look into this matter very seriously and give it its recommendations on how to go about it because you see 11 female bank MDs. Me sef dey consider this sex change thing o. Being a man don dey tire me. Kai.