Jeremy Clarkson: "Transgender Women Are Ladyboys And Nothing More Than A Punchline"

[davidn3600]

Jeremy Clarkson has understandably provoked anger after making insensitive and bigoted comments about the trans* community.

The former Top Gear star has compared “men who want to be women” as “ladyboys” and mocked transgender people as “nothing more than a punchline”.

Jeremy even went as far as to compare those struggling with their gender identity to those with a “Napoleon’s complex”, saying that children who were born in the wrong gender are simply playing at pretending.

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And speaking about a child who was born a boy but insisted from the age of three that she was a girl, Jeremy ranted: “Her parents had simply indulged this whim.

"When I was five I wanted to be Alan Whicker, but my parents didn’t buy me a blazer and send me to hospital to have my adenoids sewn up.”

http://news.yahoo.com/jeremy-clarkson-transgender-women-are-ladyboys-153255010.html

[hifiguy]

1. Always a pompous prat,

now a thorougoing shitheel.

[TubbersUK]

2. He's an utter arsehole n/t

[SheilaT]

3. Several years back a coworker confidently told me

that gay men just wanted to be women. She honestly thought that, and didn't at all understand that might possibly be a difference between someone who felt they'd been born with the wrong body, and someone who was sexually attracted to their own gender.

Ignorance is so depressing.

[Initech]

4. Why should we care about what he thinks?

[Gregorian]

5. Adenoids? Now I'm just confused.

[Hoppy]

6. Didn't one of them recently pass between the Moon and Earth last year?

[Odin2005]

7. What a bigoted ass.

[a kennedy]

8. Really enjoyed that show he was on....then he started to open his mouth on issues.....

and I just decided to forget my opinion of him previously and kick his arse. Idiot.....he's an idiot.

[Fatemah2774]

9. Punchlines

As a transgender woman of color, I unfortunately see and hear too much of ignorant individuals who feel that their iota of gender and sexual science makes them experts of these disciplines. I am most certainly not a punchline, I am a veteran, an accountant, and hopefully soon a novelist. My family and I are muslims, and they support me in my transition.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Welcome to DU, Fatemah2774!

I hope that you will find peace on your transition, and acceptance.

[sakabatou]

11. Welcome

[draa]

14. Welcome to DU.

[smirkymonkey]

18. Good luck Fatemah and welcome!

[joeybee12]

26. Welcome to DU!

[pnwmom]

12. Jeremy Clarkson is nobody. Even his picture doesn't give me a clue who he might be.

IMO, he's the punchline, whoever he is.

[Kali]

13. who?

[nationalize the fed]

15. Just one of the biggest TV personalities in the world

Each episode of Top Gear had an average of ~350 MILLION viewers around the world, from southern Africa to Siberia. That's like the entire US population tuning in every week It was the most popular non fiction TV show ever made. Then Jezza popped one of his producers in the mouth. Sunday night will never be the same. British TV is the best.

[Kali]

23. so a teevee "personality" huh?

has he done anything to help humanity or advance science? is/was he at least funny?

[mr blur]

16. Jeremy Clarkson is nothing more than a xenophobic, racist, misogynistic, homophobic right-wing git,

Not very bright, friend of Murdoch, poster boy for the Daily Mail. An emotionally-retarded 55-year-old adolescent. A bullying arsehole. Fuck him and the privilege he rode in on.

[baldguy]

17. Jeremy Clarkson is making himself into the punchline.

[geek tragedy]

19. Clarkson has a long history of violent and bigoted behavior nt

[Zorra]

20. And he is not evolved enough to understand how profound his hate for women is. nt

[Orrex]

21. I always love to hear from Jeremy Clarkson

He's a constant reminder that bigoted, overprivileged white assholes aren't exclusively an American disease.

[lapislzi]

22. And this is newsworthy because...?

This buffoon is barely qualified to offer an opinion about motor vehicles, much less comment on any kind of medical or social issue.

[FLPanhandle]

24. I might care what he has to say about a car

beyond that, who cares?

I'm surprised his opinion warrants a "news story".

[alarimer]

25. It's a real shame the other two have tied their fortunes to this asshole.

I like them, but this guy is a piece of shit.