The best satire foretells the future. The Babylon Bee has shown a remarkable ability to predict tomorrow’s headlines. In the clip below, South Park did even better. A scene where the teacher Mr. Garrison identifies as a woman and tries to get an abortion predicted our present culture nearly 2 decades in advance:

The doctor breaking the news to him that he can’t fulfill his progressive conception of womanhood by having an abortion is hilarious because it hits home:

“Mrs.” Garrison: “You mean, I’ll never know what it feels like to have a baby growing inside me and scramble its brains and vacuum it out?”

Doctor: “That’s right.”

“Mrs.” Garrison: “But I paid $5,000 to be a woman. This would mean I’m not really a woman. I’m just a guy with a mutilated penis!”

You can tell this originally appeared some time ago, because no one would dare produce it now. The penalty for telling the truth about transsexual psychosis is cancelation.

Sure enough, DNYUZ reports that the episode “Mr. Garrison’s Fancy New Vagina” first aired on March 9, 2005, back when a relatively mainstream show could speak freely.

On a tip from Varla.