"Why open a book about transitioning to a woman with your penis?" the host of the program asked Lavery. Lavery was on the BBC show to pump Lavery's new book, Please, Miss: Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis.
This after the head of the UK's Labour Party, Keir Starmer, refused to say whether or not a woman "can have a penis," while Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that men, whether they identify as women or not, should not compete in women's athletics. Genitals are "just parts of the body," Lavery said, that don't signify male or female. The question itself is "bizarre and pointless," Lavery said. When Lavery was asked "can a woman have a penis," Lavery answered in the affirmative, but said the question was misleading because the question that should be asked is can the "class: women" "contain people who have penises," and Lavery said that yes, it can. plO04quEl1- Women's Voices April 7, 2022 Lavery, an English professor at UC Berkeley, has incorporated PornHub and sissy porn into an academic curriculum, and openly expressed feeling 'exhilarated' and 'affirmed' by misogyny. Lavery believes women are "a political category," and not identifiable by their bodies, and that the political category of woman has a "meaning" that "can change over time." Those who believe that women are a "biological essential category," Lavery said, "tend to be on the side of patriarchy," while "those who have claimed that it is a political category that is deployed to oppress a class of people" are feminists. Lavery has famously said that "There is something about being treated like shit by men that feels like affirmation itself, like a cry of deligh from the deepest cavern of my breast… to be the victim of honest, undisguised sexism possesses an exhilarating vitality."
Lavery, a biological male academic who identifies as a woman, was featured on the BBC's Woman's Hour with host Emma Barnett. Lavery also believes that those who understand that women are identifiable by their bodies are "on the side of the patriarchy."
Grace Lavery, associate professor of English critical theory and gender and women's studies at UC Berkeley, underwent gender transition to present as a woman since 2018 and fully believes that it is possible for a human being to change their biological sex to be the opposite.