I’m fucking crushed to learn that a woman is going to be playing Doctor James Barry in a movie about his life (which seems to be taking the angle that he was a woman who ‘disguised herself as a man to become a doctor’ despite that he literally lived full time as a man and wanted to be buried in his bedclothes so no one would know his assigned sex…)
James Barry is a man I find fascinating and honestly? When I was scared of having my emergency c-section the only thing that pulled me through was joking about how appropriate it was/that I was honouring James Barry.
His wishes were already disrespected once when he was examined and discovered to be ‘biologically female’ upon his death. Now in 2019 apparently we’re out here disrespecting him again.











