Yet I’m the man who wrote the much-loved Father Ted! Why is it that I’ve become so suddenly unpopular?
I've never seen Father Ted, but you know, doing one good thing doesn't mean people have to ignore when you're being an asshole.
The thought crime for which I have been tried and found guilty is that I believe biological reality exists.
Incorrect. You are in denial of biological reality. My identity as a woman is a biological fact. Because even though I was born with a penis, I have a female brain.
I believe women are females. I believe everyone should be able to present themselves as they wish but that women’s hard-won rights must not be compromised for the benefit of men suffering body dysphoria – which is to say men who feel they are stuck in the wrong body.
Yes women are females. Except when we aren't *entirely* female. The problem here is your insistence that I am a man who wants to have a female body. I am a woman who wants to have a female body. My mind is female. Treating me like the woman I am does not in any take away the rights of cisgender women.
I believe trans people –those unfortunate enough to suffer body dysphoria – are having their condition exploited and trivialised by abusive, controlling and authoritarian trans rights activists. And I think women and children are suffering because of it.
Abusive? Authoritarian? Fuck off man. Trans people just want to be ourselves. It's assholes like you doing the oppression.
Worst of all, I say so, loudly. This makes me Public Enemy No 1.
I make my arguments forcefully because I’m concerned, sometimes with humour because I’m a comedy writer and often while cursing, because I’m Irish. It’s the humour they hate most. It’s kryptonite to these activists.
"Can't you take a joke?" huh? You don't get a pass on being an asshole because you were "just joking". Get the fuck outta here.
I’m 51 and I’ve never seen anything like the authoritarianism on display, the desperate desire to shut down the conversation. No genuine civil-rights movement advances in secret but this one has as one of its mantras ‘NO DEBATE’.
That's right. No debate. The debate is over. Your side lost. Get over it. I shouldn't need to keep justifying my womanhood to shitheads like you. Living in a society that tries to force manhood on me is nothing but senseless torture and cruelty. Denying my womanhood is dentying my humanity. So yeah. There's nothing to debate. If you don't like that, you can suck my dick (at least while I still have one).
So, while we are in a world where male sexual offenders in bad wigs assault female prisoners,
How often does this happen? I imagine most there's quite a lot of cisgender prisoners commiting such assaults as well.
where rape crisis centres are defunded because they won’t admit men
I'm not entirely familiar with what a rape crisis center does exactly, but if they are places where rape victims recieve aid and support then why would a male rape victim be turned away? Although I imagine what you really mean is that a transgender woman was denyed access because her womanhood was not recognized.
and where a bloke in a full beard tells schoolchildren that he’s a lesbian, we’re informed with venomous aggression that we may not talk about any of it.
Well, if *she* genuenly identifies as a woman and SHE is attracted ti women, then *SHE* is a lesbian. I've gotta believe that most such bearded lesbians aren't too happy about their facial hair. I know my facial hair causes me a great deal of distress. Before I came out as trans I was pretty lazy abour shaving too which just ended up making me more depressed.
Oh, and lemme guess, you said some hateful bullshit, got called out on it, and interpretd that as "you're not allowed to talk about this". Too bad you didn't stop talking; you're not doing yourself any favors by keeping this shit up.
The popular opinion among my detractors is that I’m cherry-picking negative stories to mask a hatred of trans people.
Trust me, no one thinks you're trying to mask anything.
In fact, I first came to this debate because I saw women being bullied, losing their jobs and suffering the most intense online harassment I’d ever seen, and I wanted to stand beside them.
Oh, really? Why do I have a feeling that in this case women being bullied means transphobic bigots being called out on their bigotry?
Also, as a writer, I couldn’t watch as one of the most important words in the English language, the word ‘woman’, was being changed against the will of those whom it defined.
Hey listen. If you've got a problem with trans people, fine. But since you're not a woman don't act like you have any right to get upset on *our* behalf because our will isn't being respected. We don't need *you* to tell us how to define ourselves.
Suddenly, everywhere you looked, women were being erased, insulted or endangered.
Liar.
Amnesty referring to pregnant women as ‘pregnant people’.
It may be rare, but some men can get pregnant. What a weird world we live in, right?
Productions of The Vagina Monologues closing because they excluded ‘women who don’t have vaginas’.
What exactly is this referring to? Anyway, you act like 'women without vaginas' is a contradiction. We're telling you that you're full of shit. I am one of those women. I am not any less a woman just because I have a penis. I don't even want the damn thing, but even if I did I'd still be a woman.
Women’s toilets disappearing from public life – even though they were introduced to ensure that women could have a public life.
Is this actually a thing? I know that I don't want women's restrooms to dissapear. I don't want to share a bathroom with men.
Worst of all, I saw the lack of compassion or empathy for the vulnerable women who are often at the sharp end of the new Gender Theocracy.
The four women attacked in prison by a male sex offender in 2018 (who everyone had to call ‘Karen’ or they were committing a hate crime) are four women too many.
Women in prison often have a history of abuse at the hands of men. Whatever they’ve done, they are entitled to safety from the type of men who helped put them there.
Wow. One example of someone in prison doing horrible things. I imagine that's why *she* was in prison to begin with. You know, women, cis or trans, can be sexual predators, just like men. So, what's your point exactly?
Rational people – and that includes rational trans people – are dismayed by those who have now taken over trans activism.
Ah yes the old "Well I'm not being hateful. The sane members of the community I'm demonizing all agree with me. Trust me."
Body dysphoria is no longer seen as central or even necessary for those who decide to adopt a so-called trans identity.
Care to explain why it should be?
To see just how elastic and meaningless the word ‘trans’ has become, one only has to look at the definition adopted by the Stonewall lobby group: ‘Trans people may describe themselves using one or more of a wide variety of terms, including (but not limited to) transgender, transsexual, gender-queer (GQ), gender-fluid, non-binary, gender-variant, crossdresser, genderless, agender, nongender, third gender, bi-gender, trans man, trans woman, trans masculine, trans feminine and neutrois.’
I don't care to bothet learning about the complicated nuances of gender identity. Since I don't understand all this stuff it has to be a bunch of meaningless nonsense!
Neutrois, I discovered, literally just means ‘androgynous’. So androgynous people are trans. That’ll be news to Bake Off presenter Noel Fielding.
Wow. You really are pretty dumb aren't you?
Under Stonewall’s definition, everyone is trans, and no one is. A cross-dresser such as banker Philip Bunce, who adopts the female persona ‘Pippa’ for only a few days every week, nevertheless receives the honour of being named by the Financial Times as one of its top 100 women in business.
This was seen as progress, a step forward for women. In fact, it is an insult to women and to those suffering from body dysphoria.
Look. I'm one of those people suffering from so-called "body dysphoria" to use your weird terminology. Don't you *dare* act like you're somehow fighting for my cause here. You can't even acknowledge my womanhood. You do nothing but shit on the very concept of transness and demonize me and everyone like me. Stop trying to hide behind other people you fucking coward. The only one insulting me and other women here is you.
The rest of this shit isn't really worth the effort as it's mostly some whining about "oh, my artistic integrity means I can demonize anybody I think is a freak and if you don't agree you're the real asshole!" Hey, I guess that is at one funny thing you've got there. And here I thought all tnis "I'm a comedian" stuff was a bunch a crap.