Will Young portrays female to male transgender in new music video

There is some very strong imagery in Will Young’s new video Brave Man, showing us how ruthlessly people can treat those who violate traditional gender norms. The video features Finn, a 19-year-old trans man, walking naked through the streets of Brighton in the UK.

Will Young is not trans himself: he is a gay man who sees that all LGBTQA people have something in common: Ostracision.

The comments from the trans community so far has been mainly positive, although some argue that the trans man in the movie can be seen as a passive victim. I read it otherwise, and more as a brave act of showing who you really are to a hostile world.

Will Young says this about the video:

“It seems extremely brave to be a man in a woman’s body and then decide to do something about this. As I thought more about it I realised that there is often coverage of what it is to be a woman in a man’s body but never to my knowledge the documenting of the opposite. Almost a perverted kind of patriarchy.“





More about the video:

Owen Jones: You don’t have to be trans to be an ally against transphobia

Hat tip to Sasha.