Naked and Afraid is a Discovery Channel reality TV show, now in its 10th season, in which a male and female couple must survive a naked 21-day stay in the wilderness by securing food, water and shelter. It’s kind of thirst masquerading as edu-tainment, but yesterday’s episode featured the series’ first-ever trans male contestant, Quince Mountain… and he encountered a wild animal stalking him in the dark.
Mountain is a dog sledder from Alaska who is an arctic survivalist and has military experience. The show gave him a “primitive survival rating” of 6.4, a prediction of how well his skill, experience and mental strength will aid him in the wild.
Upon meeting his female partner — Teresa Owens, a cop from Florida — Mountain says, “I know I look a little different. I have scars and stuff from surgery. I am transgender.”
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Owens doesn’t seem to know how to respond. She smiles awkwardly and says that she has some surgical scars too and that “it’s okay” (though it’s unclear whether she means it’s okay to have surgical scars or to be trans or both). Regardless, Mountain says, “Well thank you!”
Mountain then tells viewers that he never identified as a girl and decided to transition about eight or nine years ago.
Owens tells the camera, “My partner being transgender, it definitely makes no difference. I think that we’re still going to be able to work together as well as we would if he was a big burly man.”
But Mountain is a big, burly man… so…
Anyway, another clip of the episode showed Mr. Mountain resting in the dark (naked, of course) next to a fire, only to hear the growling of a jaguar. Like Owens, the jaguar probably doesn’t care that Mountain is transgender either — it only cares that he’s made of meat and a possible threat to its feline safety.
Here’s a clip from the show:
Meet Quince, the first transgender #NakedAndAfraid survivalist.
Sunday at 9p on Discovery and Discovery GO. pic.twitter.com/XmjzuBigix
— Naked and Afraid (@NakedAndAfraid) June 12, 2019
Mikey E
Bearded women have a long history in popular entertainment (circuses, county fairs, etc.), so it’s appropriate that they should be featured on TV.
re_horst
It’s 2019. Grow up.
Hdtex
When you die no one will mourn you.
kimmiesday
Hdtex wow thats a really messed up thing to say regardless of his gender identity he is a human being maybe truth is your so nasty no one will mourn your death peaople like you make me sick !!
darkanser
If he hadn’t come out with it nearly immediately — that he is transgender — I wonder what the woman would have been thinking or eventually asking.
parker23
If he hasn’t had bottom surgery I’m sure it was fairly obvious.
TomG
If he hasn’t had the surgery to make the male parts he’s not truly trans and would be quite obvious.