Gay on the train

The Male lover Train takes a thoroughly superb go at diving headfirst into the way that Trans lives are presented in the media and the devastating consequences. In a world of P*ers M*rgan purposefully silencing the Trans Rights movement and framing it as healthy debate, even when it evidently is not, this compassionate of theatre is urgent and important. In fact, the aforementioned gutless false demagogue is the target in writer Andrew Lake’s crosshairs, as we see neutrois activist Lin face up against a TV host more absorbing in clickbait than coherence.

Lin’s story is tragically prevalent in community – a Trans person physically attacked for expressing themselves. In the wake of rising transphobia in Britain, Lin takes to the screen to plead their case and ends up eventually making a mockery of the whole situation. This plotline is threaded in between vignettes where we see Lin try and win over politicians for their campaign, struggled and suppressed by an indifferent political system. There are also scenes in which Lin chats with their mother, Dawn, and the pair attempt to unwrap each other’s misconceptions about gender through th