"It's NOT who I want to go to bed with. It's who I want to go to bed as"

“This is an OUTRAGE! You don’t lie about having cancer unless you’re trying to get out of jury duty” that was hilarious

"Wow I really thought I had heard of every conceivable version of a gay man coming out." -Sue Sylvester

“If you think about it it’s not that big of a stretch” 😂😂😂 from that moment on sue was my favorite

I love sue " I possibly thought of every way for a gay guy to come out " " ok enough on the sausage details " hahaha so fricken funny

They could've just revealed Beiste was assigned male at birth. Would've tied into Beiste saying "I'm just a girl" in an earlier season.

I hate this storyline. Beiste’s character always showed that you’re still a girl, even if you don’t meet all the requirements of “feminine”. What this storyline did was contradict that and say “Oh you’re not feminine, obviously you’re a man

Sue is perfect as the principal. She's so compassionate and she had proved herself to being a great leader.

I’m a transgender man and I hate seeing trans men portrayed in tv shows as they always get them wrong, however this is the only show that did it right so I’m grateful for that. BUT this was a stupid idea. I get that glee has always been a forward thing show and I love that about it but coach being trans came out of no where. And I liked the fact that she was very masculine while also being a woman. By making her trans the creators are basically reinforcing the stereotype that if you’re a masculine woman you’re actually a man. Meh idk. Just my thoughts.

They did a complete 180 with this character... Such a shame :/ Kinda feels like they did it for the "boom" factor, and that's it.

This story line didn't really make any sense. In the earlier seasons Coach Beiste always felt like a girl on the inside but in the last season she suddenly wants to transition into a man?? I liked her character because she showed that you don't have to follow the stereotypes placed on your gender, but then the producers decided to do a complete 180 and make her seem like she wanted to be male the whole time. I feel like the producers only created this storyline because they wanted to appeal to more audience since transgender was a big issue at the time, and they couldn't be bothered putting some thought into the storylines because they just wanted to get glee over and done with. I love glee but season 6 had really random and terrible storylines.

I'm confused because in the other seasons his whole issue was how he was a woman who didn't fit into society's standard of a woman. His whole character was supposed to show that you don't have to fit into gender norms.

Awww it's so nice seeing Sue finally being supportive

Sam’s confusion in 2:38 really reminds me Finn, that in every possible scene was confused. missing himmm

Sue is a very complex person first she doesn't support unique ext she fully supports bieste

As a trans guy myself, I agree with others who say that Bieste coming out as a trans man is kinda coming out of the blue. But he (yes, I will still use male pronouns because despite everything, he identifies as such and I will therefore respect him) could possibly just repressed those feelings before. But he always said he WANTED to feel like a girl. Aka he probably didn't really feel like one. But yeah, I think they could've gone in a different direction too. If they wanted to include a transman too, it would've been great to bring in Sunshine again since the actor is actually trans and has transitioned.

1:33 Sam said what we're all thinking

Sam being confused by the concept of transness as if he didn't spend all that time with Unique?!?! Also: the idea that you can just magically get top surgery and hormones the second you get a gender dysphoria diagnosis is NONSENSE. And as much as I love the idea of more trans guy representation, and most of this storyline is reasonably well done, it's frustrating that it goes so against Beiste's earlier character development as a masculine woman.

Making Coach Bieste a transgender was by far one of the most forced story lines of Glee. Like, there was literally no point in them doing it. They really ruined her character by trying to make this story line work & it just didn't.

Didn't like this storyline. Bieste was a wonderful character. This was unnecessary, out of left field, and it reinforced the false idea that if you're not a feminine enough as a woman, you must really be a man.

I didn't watch season 6 anymore, the real Glee was gone for me, so I hadn't seen this scene yet. It suprises me how nice Sue is. Wow

I love sue and how she just makes jokes in every situation 😂😂

Sue: “this is an outrage you don’t lie about having cancer unless it’s to get out of jury duty” “When you think about it, it’s not that far of a stretch”

I feel like this character development was out of nowhere....wasn't the point of Beiste's character that there's no one way to be a woman? I mean, the episode was beautifully done but i feel like the whole character's purpose kinda got up-ended

I think they did a good job with beiste explaining it and how they felt but I also think it literally came out of nowhere

Ignoring how well they handled this storyline (cos kudos to them, the writers did a brilliant job getting it right, even if it came out of the blue) everything about this story pissed me off. Bieste was such an awesome character and didn't need to have a trans storyline, cos it was just clearly jumping on the bandwagon of ticking "diversity" boxes, instead of actually making sense to the show. I think what pissed me off more though was how Unique was almost brushed aside in the wake of this: there were articles calling Bieste the "first trans person on Glee" and "omg such a brave storyline" when Unique had been talking about being trans since series 3, even saying "I want to match what's on the inside" to Kurt and Mercedes. Like, they had such an amazing character there, but they just ignored her and instead of fleshing out Unique and looking more into it, they chose to make someone completely new and go "hey look! we're talking about being trans and you get to see the before and after to see how great our make up team is!!!"

This made literally no sense. The whole premise of Coach Bieste was to be a very masculine and unattractive woman, and to see the beauty inside. This entire show, all he want to be seen as a girl. I love Glee, and I support a trans character, but what the heck were they thinking?

I really don't understand this. Didn't (s)he say she felt like a girly girl inside?

Aww, this is heartbreaking!! I love Beiste!!

Personally, I kind of feel like they kind of put in this storyline because they ran out of other ideas... She really didn't show any signs of gender dysphoria in the first few seasons.... She just seemed like a tomboy. I really don't have any issues with it, and I can understand how she says 'I've always felt like this' it just seemed out of the blue.

2:46 the sigh of relief is heartbreaking 😭

Sue always comes off as hard on the students, but when it comes to her colleagues, she’s a really good person.

Thank you for putting he really in the title

I of the many scenes of glee that have made me cry

In earlier seasons she was upset that people didn’t see her as a real woman but now she wants to be a man. I’m more confused than she is

Why does sue make me laugh so much in this scene at the beginning 😂😂😂😂

I get that everyone is mad that it seems forced but at lease use his correct pronouns

i honestly love how we see Sue change, she went from not letting Unique be in the musical bc she was transgender to supporting him

Sue made it so hard not to laugh. I wanted to take this seriously....

This show did such a good job at making light of difficult conversations and topics. Way ahead of its time.

Sue had a glow up!!!

These three are my favorite characters❤️❤️

Beiste was one of the best characters and I’m glad that they had this very important moment in the show.

Its weird. I actually thought when I first saw her I was like : "Is she transgender?" I actually thought she was man transitioning into a woman. Guess I was half right.

This is the kind of stuff that makes sue an okay person

Sue became such a great person.😭💖

They just drove her character right off a bloody cliff 😞

She's acting the hell out of this scene, but the character has literally always stated that they feel like a woman regardless of how they look, that was her arc the first 2 seasons she was there for.

Such a perfect scene. Not just with how authentically Coach Beiste tells their own story, but the juxtaposition of "blond idiot Sam" asking the 'stupid questions' for the benefit of the audience, and Sue Sylvester giving so much power by stepping down for a moment as the school's "resident heel" to still be her usual snarky self, but combine it with love and compassion. And then of course like 5 minutes later she's planning her next literal felony to show those New Direction kids what-for :P but that's what makes the moment great.

I really like how they handled this

That's the stupidest plotline in the entire show. This is extremely inconsistent with her character. She always said she wanted to be treated as a woman and that inside she was just a girl like any other. I also find this offensive to masculine women! Just because someone is a masculine athletic woman doesn't mean she is trans or gay! They have a great trans character - Unique. She actually MAKES SENSE. She actually acts like a trans character WOULD. I am 99% sure they never planned to make this character trans, and they forced even more diversity into an already a very diverse show. I find this lame and illogical. They ruined a perfectly good, diverse character - a straight female football coach who struggles to fit in within gender roles. It is not a common character type to see on tv, I thought she was perfect. Goddamn Glee, they really had no good ideas after season 5.

I just love how Sue acts like a total jerk but when it really comes down to it, she shows who she really is and that person is amazing

i just love Beiste so much

Jane Lynch is queen

I like that she was supportive in her own way

when y’all told me beiste was trans i thought she was a trans woman 😭 glees got me mad fucked up im almost done with season four but then someone said beiste was a trans MAN i got so confused. dude i had this nice storyline planned in my head of beiste and unique having a good talk or some shit, but beiste is a man? if this was real life i wouldn’t have any second thoughts at all on beiste’s identity, but it just feels like it wasn’t handled very well at all?? i dont know i’m just very upset, this was not the way i thought the story was going...

Beiste is just me favorite character in glee

He became Mr. Bieste!

I've loved Dot ever since she was the coach in Lizzie McGuire who, masculine and tough as she was, sewed her own dresses to go line dancing with her husband because they didn't make dresses that would fit her arms. I've always respected this strong powerful woman that opposed stereotypes while proudly being a strong woman that loves herself for who she is. That's who coach Beiste was too and this took it away.

I appreciate that a lot of the comments have come around on this. I hated that they did this to Beiste's character because it felt like a betrayal of the character that had been previously established. Dot-Marie Jones has always been one of my favorite actors. I'll watch anything with her in it and I loved her character before this happened. She was crying to Will saying "I'm just a regular girl" and then they shoehorned in a sex change for the character. The entire last season of Glee was a disaster and this was just one of many mistakes made.

So basically they've just erased all his character development from the early seasons smh glee writers 😑

I told sue that it was a lie sue what got me dead tho 😂

What does Bieste call Sam? Pumpkin? Before he explains what it is?

I absolutely hated this storyline. Beiste had a wonderful story about how she hated how people didn’t treat her like a girl. How it hurt her when people didn’t recognize her as a girl but always as “one of the guys”. It was a great storyline for girls who may not appear as feminine as others. Then they go and make it the stereotype of “she doesn’t check the common boxes of femininity so she MUST be a guy”.

This story line made no sense. It felt like they had just shoe horned it in because unique was gone. In previous seasons it was all about how she felt like a girl on the inside and wanted to show that more. She was a great character as she showed that femininity comes in all shapes and sizes which is rarely shown. By doing this story line it almost goes against that lesson. I know some people will say that I am against transgender people because of this but that is entirely not true. I love that glee showed a variety of issues including trans issues but this was not the character to do it with

I love Coach Beaste. She became more and more confident throughout the show and now she has the courage to do what she’s always wanted to do. Good for her. I mean it. Everyone should do what they have to do to be comfortable with themselves, as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone.

At 1:56 that looks Sue gives is Pricele$$!!!!

This is kind of unrealistic. No reasonable psychologist would give someone a gender dysphoria diagnosis and be ok with them having top surgery or hormones immediately. That takes months if not years to do all of that. Coach can’t just change his female body into a male body in the span of a week! Top surgery recovery takes months then lower surgery happens in multiple stages spanning at least a year without complications (and there usually are) and this often can’t happen without a hysterectomy and recovery from the hysterectomy before lower surgery is even a topic of discussion. I get this is a television drama but it’d be nice if it were a bit more realistic

I enjoyed coach beiste the most after sue. Like they got way more stuff done with him than they did with ken. Like actually winning football games, making Christmas wishes come true, shining a light on DV, being vulnerable here n there, Shannon beiste had it going on character wise. I’m not sure about, I think Sheldon? I haven’t gotten that far in the season yet but I hope it goes well.

As a trans man I find this... Meh. Like I think they handled the coming out itself well but the history of the character makes it feel contradictory. I do like Sue's reaction though. Show's that she's grown since Unique (she misgendered Unique a LOT)

I think that beiste’s transition and coming out was really great as a storyline, but not for the character. It doesn’t make a ton of sense for how they developed him in earlier seasons

Looool at Sue's comments... they are ridiculous but so funny😂

As a ftm guy this scene makes me literally fucking sob because I know how much it hurts to know you were born with the body that belongs to someone you're not.

Even that Sue has done bad things, she is a good person

What was the point of this??! Just thrown in pointlessly?

I feel really bad for coach beiste

"Its not who im going to bed *with*, its who im going to bed *as*" An the red/white/rosé thing from Schitts Creek are so underrated

I was legit so upset before this when Beiste said he has cancer. Sure, this was a relief, but it made me so mad, coz they just took his character development and threw it all away.

“ so your ugh.. like a lesbian?” i love sam wtf 😭

Can u post the scene where Sheldon returns to Mckenley???(Idk how to spell)

Since everyone is confused; Basically Coach Beiste always wanted to feel like a woman because he's attracted to men and most men he's attracted to are straight. He always thought he needed to stay a woman, but he always felt like a man deep down. People can still be attracted to the opposite gender while wanted to change into the opposite gender.

Beastie is so right. That is so nice, she'll make a respectful exit and a way to become who she wants to be.

The friendship that Sheldon has with sue is so touching, like the stripped moment where beiste tells sue and rozz that cooter hit him. the friendship, the love they feel for each other is just just touching

BEISTE IS A TRANS GUY IM SO HAPPY

"And I wrestled hogs in my free time."

This story line doesn’t make any sense but alright.

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W O O O O O O O O O O O

This is why glee turned to shit, they had to cover every single issue

i Love sue

Him getting his top surgery and testosterone within a week of therapy is so funny seeing as most of the time it takes years because of how much the medical system hates trans people and tries to bar them from any and all procedures they need

Everybody’s saying they didn’t like this, but I don’t think they realized that he thought he was a tomboy and he didn’t regret everything he’s been through as a women. Yes, this came out of nowhere, but I don’t think it was the worst storyline glee came out with (I’m not trans myself, so I’m no expert in this, and I’m not trying to act like one)

Season 6 was kinda confusing but I always liked how they did this episode. The transgender person in this episode may have always been “girly” and wanted to be a woman but what people fail to see is people hide shit. They hide who they are cause of what the world may think. I think they did this episode justice

Sue is great

yes sue was a bully but she never once hated someone for who they were. she just picked on their insecurities. making fun of kurt for being gay, but never once actually criticizing that lifestyle. she never tried to change him. she was never racist, was always supportive underneath all of that... cruelty

i love sheldon

I Stop watching glee a long time ago, so I don't understand why is Sue being so nice, why are she Sam and Beiste so good friends. XD

Am I the only one who thought that coach beiste was trans mtf. Like literally coach beiste literally said to Mr shooster "you make me feel like a REAL girl" and "I'm a GIRL inside" plus loads of other stuff. When I saw this scene I thought it would be estrogen but when I heard testosterone I was SO confused tbh.

Whaaaaat. Hold on. I havent watched every season because i started just a few weeks ago with glee. But beist is one of my favorite characters and they give her this storyline😶 what for...arghh. I wouldnt have cared if they choose Mr Shue for it. But why her..noooooooo😭

Sue was such a Tsundere 😂