Written by I was shocked to see someone post an article about the world’s first “non-binary transgender beer” to Facebook recently. Produced by a company called “BrewDog”, the beer is, without the slightest hint of irony, labeled “No Label”. The 4.6% ABV Kölsch has been brewed with hops that have changed sex from female to male flowers prior to harvest. BrewDog has used these to emphasise that, “just like humans, beer can be whatever the hell it wants to be, and proud of it.”
The special brew came in response to criticisms that a video the brewery had produced for a crowdfunding effort was “anti-transgender, anti-sex worker, and anti-homeless” according to an organization calling itself “Queerest of the Queer”. In the video, the men making the funding pitch said they would “do anything” to take their business to the next level, but pointed out in a humorous fashion, or at least, what passes for humorous in the UK, that there were certain things they would prefer not to do to raise funds.
Among the things they would prefer not to do, was beg for money on the street (hence the anti-homeless angle), and stand in the window of a brothel wearing women’s lingerie (because apparently for a man to have some aversion toward becoming a transexual prostitute, is somehow bigoted).