Jacob Weitlauf’s big number in this year’s “Saturday’s Voyeur” is a fast-paced vocabulary lesson.
As the University of Utah student performs “50 Ways to Name Your Gender,” words appear on a screen behind the stage. Trans. Queer. And then lesser-known terms: Verself, terself, perself. Hirs, ze. Tri-gen, high-femme, bi-gen and neutrois.
“Call me a non-bine, no he-she combine; We like being defined, just listen to Ve,” Weitlauf sings. “It isn’t my member, that speaks to my gender; You gotta remember, we just wanna be free.”
Weitlauf’s casting marks the first time in the annual satire’s 41-year history that a nonbinary actor is performing as a nonbinary character.