Comedian Lucie Isle parodies the form of a public service announcement in order to skewer online transphobia

In this short Instagram Reel sketch, comedian Lucie Isle uses comedy to disarm and skewer transphobic attitudes around use of public toilets. Co-opting the form of a public service announcement, complete with mannered voice over, Isle teases out the absurdities around this moral panic by detailing the foolproof ways to identify a trans person in the bathroom. Are they “hogging the bathroom mirror for endless selfies”? Or merely “existing peacefully”? If so, get the Gender Police on the case.

Lucie Isle produces the Norwich and Cambridge-based 'alt & queer' comedy night Degenerates, and creates comedy for audio, stage and screen. Her self-produced comedy shorts, distributed online via social media, often offer irreverent and self-deprecating takes on the queer experience.