…And One Last LeRoy Take
“I’m amused, intrigued and positively titillated,” says Kate Bornstein about the revelations concerning JT LeRoy that unfolded all last week. “I’d honestly not paid too much attention to JT LeRoy before this kerfluffle, but I’ve just placed a one-click order with Amazon for a copy of Sarah.” Bornstein, a male-to-female transsexual who (as hir) website puts it) “discovered that being a woman didn’t work for her any better than being a man, [...]stopped being a woman and settled into being neither,” has a certain amount of sympathy for the author(s), and raises the possibility that whoever’s behind that public mask might actually be transgendered. “If being properly gendered means your socio-sexual identity is congruent and consistent with your body and self-image,” she observes, “then I think it’s quite likely JT is a (or some) tranny(s). It’s as hard to find a pronoun for JT as it is any other kind of tranny I know.”
Even the public appearances by Samantha Knoop come in for a bit of playful celebration: “A person would have to be deeply sociophobic and/or deeply devious and/or deeply mischievous and/or deeply wounded to actually use a stand-in. Most writers I know are some combination of all those. I am. Aren’t you? The win/win option would be for the person(s) who is/are JT to pull off their masks, yell ‘Surprise, it was all performance art!’ and sell it to LOGO as an in-the-can reality show.”
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