Monty Python Predicted This Insane Trangender WOKE Culture Back In 1979

Over 40 years ago, the iconic British comedy group Monty Python released their third feature film, Monty Python’s Life of Brian. The movie follows a young Jewish man who happens to be born on the same day as, and next door to, Jesus Christ and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah. Now a classic, the film initially proved highly controversial due to its perceived blasphemy.

The film also pokes fun at political correctness, satirizing attitudes that would today be described as woke. It features skits about the left eating itself, a perennial trope. In light of the current state of political discourse, this particular combination of religious and political themes seems almost prophetic.

Offensive as it may be to woke audiences, this particular scene was almost certainly not intended as a commentary on transgenderism. There is one scene, however, that explicitly addresses it. At an informal meeting of the radical People’s Front of Judea (not to be confused with the Judean People’s Front or the Judean Popular People’s Front), one of the characters, Stan, keeps interrupting his comrades, insisting that they use gender-inclusive language. A discussion ensues:

—Why are you always on about women, Stan?
—I want to be one.
—What?
—I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me Loretta.
—What?
—It’s my right as a man.
—Why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
—I want to have babies.
—You want to have babies?
—It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.
—But you can’t have babies.
—Don’t you oppress me!
—I’m not oppressing you, Stan. You haven’t got a womb. Where is the foetus going to gestate? You’re going to keep it in a box?