Yawn.That was the collective verdict online following news that Josh Seiter, the grifting former Bachelorette contestant, had duped the public and a far-right outrage machine hungry for anti-woke content into believing he had transitioned. Related A trans woman came out to her great-grandma & her response is melting hearts around the world Whoever is in there, I love. Hes trolling hard , posted one keen observer on Reddit months before Seiter confessed to the hoax. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Seiter made the admission on the right-wing BlazeTV podcast Prime Time with Alex Stein, revealing his four-month journey into womanhood was a social experiment to expose how gullible and delusional the left is.Seiter came out as trans in May, announcing to his Insta followers, I have struggled with my gender identity and resulting feelings of guilt and shame for as long as I can remember.I spent the last three decades trying to keep this side of me private. I felt I had no choice, given my upbringing in a strictly religious, conservative family.Seiter said at the time he wasnt undergoing hormone replacement therapy and wouldnt elect to have gender-affirming surgery.Instead, Seiter spent four months playing dress-up on Insta, reveling not in trans joy but in the rush of provoking online outrage and fooling the public.His widely covered transition granted Seiter an audience hes struggled to maintain with other desperate attempts at self-promotion: coming out as bisexual during Pride Month in 2023 in a play for gay fans; announcing he was dating a fellow male stripper while secretly keeping a girlfriend; teasing thirsty fans with the promise of adult films that never came to pass; claiming he fathered a son that doesnt exist; and faking his own death on Insta with an announcement of his passing a charge hes denied followed by an apology for all the pain the cruel joke hatched by haters caused his fans.The cruel joke, though, was Seiters own as he coopted the stories of real trans people and the tropes surrounding them in service of his elaborate fraud.Seiter came to so-called fame with his appearance as a contestant on ABCs The Bachelorette, where he infamously stripped on his first date with the shows namesake. He parlayed that reality show celebrity into influencer status and an OnlyFans account, mining the depths of the TV dating genre for hook-ups with other self-promoting contestants from shows like 90 Day Fianc and Love After Lockup.I hope that this could help some people understand that just because you put on dresses and makeup as a man doesnt magically make you a woman, Seiter told Stein at his big reveal. It was the one true thing he said in the interview.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.