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The Curse of the Bearded Lady
How the Trans Mafia Whacked American Sanity
Part of Publius Prose
By A.J. Rice
Published by Post Hill Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
Table of Contents
About The Book
I’m gonna make you a heteronormative offer you can’t refuse…
It turns out when Cultural Marxists lift up their skirts, there are seventy-two genders under there!
Bestselling author A.J. Rice returns with his clever and hilariously unfiltered energy in a new volume that skewers modern culture with equal parts brains and bite. Smart, funny, and unapologetically bold, this is Rice at his very best—provocative, fearless, hilarious—and impossible to put down. Hide the children, because you are about to experience the epic conclusion of the mental illness trilogy!
This is not the story of a few crime families rigging poker games with NBA players. No—this is something far more horrific, far more nefarious, and far more destructive to the United States of America. A hidden network, operating in plain sight, pulling cultural strings that spread madness from boardrooms to bathrooms, to classrooms to operating rooms, stealthily reshaping the nation one woke directive at a time.
We are not talking about La Cosa Nostra, we are talking about the Trans Mafia. An army of vile, gender confused, three hundred-pound blue-haired soldiers, each led by their very own Bearded Lady as commanding officer.
The Bearded Lady is patient zero of a mass hysteria that swept across America and the West in the last decade. And if you think the Bearded Lady started singing after the last election and was shamed out of existence, think again.
Americans are, by and large, a tolerant people. But we have our own threshold for pain. Being whatever you want to be is part of the American creed. But trying to make others believe what isn’t so is as un-American as it gets. Men cannot “transition” into women, irrespective of how much they feel they are “women” deep inside. If they actually believe they are women—by dint of feeling that they are—then they are mentally ill and to be pitied.
But as Rice points out, when the media, sports leagues, academia, Hollywood, and the Democratic Party conspire to sell you lies, it’s not compassion they deserve—it’s ridicule. Open disdain. Holster your pity, he says, and weaponize your humor to mock them mercilessly.
A good working definition of mental illness is the inability to distinguish objective reality from fantasy. It is the test used by the legal system to determine whether a person can be held criminally responsible for their actions. If a person is adjudicated insane, he is remanded to the custody of a psychiatric hospital rather than a prison.
The Democratic Party did not learn the lesson of the 2024 election. The American people rejected the Trans Mafia, but the psychiatric hospital remains open for business, while the Bearded Lady continues to hunt for dissenters to whack.
There’s no substitute for perfectly timed derision—a lesson well established in Rice’s first two books, The Woking Dead and The White Privilege Album. Now, once again, Rice unleashes his acerbic wit with that brash, mouthy Philadelphia style, igniting a comedic donnybrook that’s equal parts satire and street brawl.
The Bearded Lady started this fight—A.J. Rice is here to finish it.
“In America’s fight for women’s rights in sports, culture, and life, our movement needs a variety of truth-tellers, so why not a hilarious political satirist like A.J. Rice? His latest book dismantles the Trans Mafia’s propaganda and reveals a movement of bullies that melt when exposed to the heat of mockery. He has unleashed a fierce defense of principle, wrapped in humor.”
— RILEY GAINES, Women’s Rights Activist, a 12x All-American Swimmer, Host of The Riley Gaines Show on Outkick on Fox News Media
It turns out when Cultural Marxists lift up their skirts, there are seventy-two genders under there!
Bestselling author A.J. Rice returns with his clever and hilariously unfiltered energy in a new volume that skewers modern culture with equal parts brains and bite. Smart, funny, and unapologetically bold, this is Rice at his very best—provocative, fearless, hilarious—and impossible to put down. Hide the children, because you are about to experience the epic conclusion of the mental illness trilogy!
This is not the story of a few crime families rigging poker games with NBA players. No—this is something far more horrific, far more nefarious, and far more destructive to the United States of America. A hidden network, operating in plain sight, pulling cultural strings that spread madness from boardrooms to bathrooms, to classrooms to operating rooms, stealthily reshaping the nation one woke directive at a time.
We are not talking about La Cosa Nostra, we are talking about the Trans Mafia. An army of vile, gender confused, three hundred-pound blue-haired soldiers, each led by their very own Bearded Lady as commanding officer.
The Bearded Lady is patient zero of a mass hysteria that swept across America and the West in the last decade. And if you think the Bearded Lady started singing after the last election and was shamed out of existence, think again.
Americans are, by and large, a tolerant people. But we have our own threshold for pain. Being whatever you want to be is part of the American creed. But trying to make others believe what isn’t so is as un-American as it gets. Men cannot “transition” into women, irrespective of how much they feel they are “women” deep inside. If they actually believe they are women—by dint of feeling that they are—then they are mentally ill and to be pitied.
But as Rice points out, when the media, sports leagues, academia, Hollywood, and the Democratic Party conspire to sell you lies, it’s not compassion they deserve—it’s ridicule. Open disdain. Holster your pity, he says, and weaponize your humor to mock them mercilessly.
A good working definition of mental illness is the inability to distinguish objective reality from fantasy. It is the test used by the legal system to determine whether a person can be held criminally responsible for their actions. If a person is adjudicated insane, he is remanded to the custody of a psychiatric hospital rather than a prison.
The Democratic Party did not learn the lesson of the 2024 election. The American people rejected the Trans Mafia, but the psychiatric hospital remains open for business, while the Bearded Lady continues to hunt for dissenters to whack.
There’s no substitute for perfectly timed derision—a lesson well established in Rice’s first two books, The Woking Dead and The White Privilege Album. Now, once again, Rice unleashes his acerbic wit with that brash, mouthy Philadelphia style, igniting a comedic donnybrook that’s equal parts satire and street brawl.
The Bearded Lady started this fight—A.J. Rice is here to finish it.
“In America’s fight for women’s rights in sports, culture, and life, our movement needs a variety of truth-tellers, so why not a hilarious political satirist like A.J. Rice? His latest book dismantles the Trans Mafia’s propaganda and reveals a movement of bullies that melt when exposed to the heat of mockery. He has unleashed a fierce defense of principle, wrapped in humor.”
— RILEY GAINES, Women’s Rights Activist, a 12x All-American Swimmer, Host of The Riley Gaines Show on Outkick on Fox News Media
Product Details
- Publisher: Post Hill Press (July 21, 2026)
- Length: 240 pages
- ISBN13: 9798895656099
Raves and Reviews
“After decades on the sidelines watching the greatest male athletes in the world compete against each other, it’s shocking—and honestly heartbreaking—to see pretenders who couldn’t make it try to dominate women’s sports. A.J. Rice calls out every one of these imposters in this gutsy and hilarious book. If you care about fairness, women’s sports, and telling the truth even when it’s controversial, this is required reading.”
– Michele Tafoya, Former Sideline Reporter for NBC Sunday Night Football and Host of The Michele Tafoya Podcast on the Salem Podcast Network
“The fight against the Trans Mafia is not just a legal and political fight, but a cultural one. This book is for Americans who care about women’s rights; but also, for Democrats who still don’t know what a woman is, my friend A.J. Rice is more than happy to mock them into oblivion.”
– Christina Bobb, Former Legal Counsel to President Donald J. Trump, United States Marine Corps Veteran, and Author of Defiant: Inside the Mar-a-Lago Raid and the Left's Ongoing Lawfare
“The Curse of the Bearded Lady grapples with two key questions related to the left’s lunatic obsession with gender identity and the destruction of women’s spaces: 1. How the hell did we get here? and 2. Is it enough to ‘live and let live’? In this devastatingly funny book, A.J. Rice manages to deliver a deeply serious takedown of the modern progressive movement and its insistence that we all tolerate its embrace of insanity.”
– Amber Duke, Senior Editor of the Daily Caller and Author of The Snowflakes’ Revolt: How Woke Millennials Hijacked American Media
“The Trans Mafia empire is a dark place. A.J. Rice has the gift of cutting wit, devastating facts, and poetic perspective and he’s the light you'll want navigating you through the madness. This book is a must read if you want to be armed and dangerous in all the right ways. I'd love to see a member of the Trans Mafia try to stand up against this.”
– Chanel Rion, Primetime Host of Fine Point with Chanel Rion on One America News Network
“A.J. Rice brings moral clarity to a reckless and confused world. Men are men and women are women. This should not be controversial; this is a biological principle. In his hysterical new book, he exposes the insanity of the Trans Mafia and mocks the bad ideas that have led to men infiltrating women’s spaces in the 21st century. This is a must-read for every American who still has a brain and the courage to use it.”
– Hannah Faulkner, Host of Live with Hannah Faulkner on LFA TV, and Author of Last Chance to Save Our Republic
“A.J. Rice once again delivers a devastating blow to the depraved cultural forces looking to undo American sanity and destroy Western Civilization. With his hilarious new book, he wastes no time taking a verbal blow torch to the sacred cows of the Left. And in this case, the sacred cow has seventy-two genders.”
– Stacy Washington, On Air Talent on SiriusXM’s The Patriot, CEO of ShareNet Ministries, and Author of Eternally Cancel Proof: A Guide for Courageous Christians Navigating the Political Battlefront
“As Western Civilization tiptoes toward the gallows, with his hilarious new book, my brother from another mother, A.J. Rice, pushes back with biting satire and irreverent humor in a way that only he can!”
– Emerald Robinson, Host of The Absolute Truth on Lindell TV, Former White House Correspondent for NewsmaxTV, and One America News Network
“As a classically trained musician horrified by radical transgender ideology’s takeover of mainstream music—epitomized by artists such as Chappell Roan and their aggressive activism and indoctrination of young fans—I wholeheartedly recommend A.J. Rice’s The Curse of the Bearded Lady as an explosive, witty, and essential takedown of the Trans Mafia that every culture warrior must read as a powerful tool for reclaiming truth, sanity, and America’s moral and creative soul!”
– Chloe Castillo, Founder and President of Make Music Right
“Everyone needs a good laugh at the Left’s insanity, and this new book by my publicist and friend A.J. Rice is a must read, especially to get educated about the scourge of the Trans Mafia infection hypnotizing America’s youth through schools, technology, and culture.”
– Sam Sorbo, Founder of Sorbo Studios, Host of The Sam Sorbo Show and Author of They're Your Kids: An Inspirational Journey from Self-Doubter to Home School Advocate
“A.J. Rice does the impossible: he makes the left’s ongoing woke meltdown… hilarious. His latest political comedy reads like a guided missile through progressive chaos—with a tour guide who knows how to shake people out of their cultural malaise with a laugh! Rice’s insider connections to the Trump administration give him political receipts, his commentary gives you whiplash, and his jokes make the Trans Mafia’s ongoing apocalypse go down in flames.”
– Alex Swoyer, Editor-at-Large at the Washington Times and Author of Lawless Lawfare: Tipping the Scales of Justice to Get Trump and Destroy MAGA
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