Another Victim Of The Thought Police?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48526656
//The writer said that, as a gay man, he has "rejected restrictive cultural gender stereotypes for "as long as I can remember", but does not believe in gender identity.
"It is impossible for a person to change their biological sex. I don't believe anybody is born in the wrong body," he said.// - bang on.

[spathiphyllum]

I think, regardless what he said... if you're in a position of influence or creativity you should leave your political thoughts out of the public eye.

[spathiphyllum]

political / sexually orientated ..

[spathiphyllum]

Thoughts are fine, it's how people act on them or share them. No one is the thought police.

[anotheoldgit]

Long ago we were always encouraged to "speak one's mind", but it now seems that in this once 'Country of the Free' we are no longer free to do so.

/// One of his more concerning posts refers to Paris Lees, Munroe Bergdorf, and Chelsea Manning, three of the world's most celebrated names in transgender rights, as "trannies". The word is now considered extremely derogatory. ///

Blimey can I no longer call my transistor radios, my Trannies?

[gulliver1]

Once new a couple of Gays that drove around in a Trannie van.

[Deskdiary]

Anybody care to have a stab for me as to why this chap's comments are considered 'Transphobic'. Phobic is an extreme or irrational fear - he has shown neither, all he has provided is his belief.

However, is anybody really surprised he's been sacked? I'm not.

Any comments about the transgender community that can be perceived as criticism or disagreement (which bizarrely is considered transphobic for some reason) is heresy.

For such a tiny minority they are incredibly loud.

[spathiphyllum]

"'Country of the Free' we are no longer free to do so. "


If you were under the impression the UK had a freedom of speech law, you'd be under the wrong impression. You can have freedom of expression under strict circumstances.

[fender62]

briefly caught the this morning program on itv, there was a guy talking about lesbian pug dogs, and gayness in the animal world, i thought
that takes LGBT to another level, certainly mainstream now.
live how you want to live, but dont shove it in my face constantly.

[ludwig]

// lesbian pug dogs //

Good name for a band.

[youngmafbog]

I'm not surprised.

We are ruled by minorities now, not by any form of democracy, rather by he/she/it who shouts loudest.

[spathiphyllum]

Certainly not true.

[ludwig]

It doesn't give the contents of the so-called offensive tweets anywhere, so it's hard to judge.

[New Judge]

"Phobic is an extreme or irrational fear - he has shown neither, all he has provided is his belief."

It's an example of a misused term being accepted now in its originally misused form. "...phobic" is used constantly to describe not acceptance or disagreement with (xenophobic, Islamaphobic, etc.). People holding those views are not "...phobic". They simply don't accept what's being thrust upon them. It's something that in the UK today people cannot do without attracting a derogatory label (and in this case an incorrect one). It sounds better to call somebody "transphobic" rather than "unreceptive to a viewpoint that they find unacceptable but which amounts to heresy if they say so".

[Spicerack]

spathiphyllum //Thoughts are fine, it's how people share them. No one is the thought police. //

God help us.

[ToraToraTora]

YMB: "We are ruled by minorities now, not by any form of democracy" - and not by any sort of common sense or logic.

[Jordyboy9]

Spath you’re 11.26 post reminds me a little of answerbank

[pixie374]

I don't think anyone should be punished if what they say can be proven to be true. That isn't hate or phobia. Just science.

[ToraToraTora]

pixie 14:33, don't come on here with yer common sense! wash your mouth out with soap!

[pixie374]

Very sorry, ttt ;-)

This is now brainwashing...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7094949/Scientists-blast-innacurate-GCSE-paper-Edexcel-replaced-word-sex-gender.html

[Old_Geezer]

Has been picked on for expressing the true but unpopular view. It's the times we live in. The emperor has the finest set of clothes we have ever seen.