It’s no secret that the entertainment industry is completely in the tank for the transgender movement, but a recent episode of the Netflix documentary series “Untold” titled, “The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist” takes it to the extreme.
The episode purports to tell the story of how Notre Dame football star Manti Te’o was victimized by a Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. Tuiasosopo is a “catfish,” someone who creates a fake online persona to lure victims into personal relationships. Around 2007 or 2008 Tuiasosopo created a fake Facebook account posing as a young woman named Lennay Kekua. Tuiasosopo roped a number of men into online relationships before befriending Te’o in 2009.
For the next three years, Tuiasosopo conned Te’o into believing that Kekua was his deeply devoted girlfriend. When the hoax blew up in 2013, it blew up not in Tuiasosopo’s face but Te’o’s.
Yet the documentary fails to tell the story properly because it does not portray Tuiasosopo as the monster he is. If anything, it enables him in his delusions. The reason is that Tuiasosopo is now a trans woman named Naya.
The documentary signals at the beginning that it is going to treat Tuiasosopo as a member of a protected class with the following disclaimer: “At the time of this filming, subjects were not aware that Ronaiah identified as a transgender woman.” Te’o was the victim of a vicious hoax, but what really matters is that he didn’t use the correct pronouns when…
