It's just a fashion says Les

Photo: By Eva Rinaldi

Poor old Barry Humphreys better known to most as Dame Edna Everage has been attacked by self appointed guardians of political righteousness for daring to air his views on the subject of trans-politics that usually get censored.  How dare he contradict the agenda pursued by those who know what's best for us to think. The Spectator writes

I ask if his biggest crowd-pleaser, Dame Edna Everage, has attracted the attention of trans activists, who are swift to take offence at anything they perceive as transphobic. I take him through their case in detail. They say that more than 40 per cent of trans men and women have attempted or considered suicide and from this they argue that because transphobia is capable of catalysing an act of self-harm it ought to be treated in law as a form of assault. ‘Terrible rat-baggery,’ he says. He calls transgenderism ‘a fashion — how many different kinds of lavatory can you have? And it’s pretty evil when it’s preached to children by crazy teachers’. He recalls provoking a torrent of outrage when he used the word ‘mutilation’ to describe gender-reassignment surgery. ‘They had their genitalia chopped off and tucked in and whatever they had to do. And that aroused a lot of indignation — probably among the people who’d spent a lot of money having it done.

Forthright and to the point. Does he have a right to this point of view. Yes he does. As does Germaine Greer, Posie Parker and the lesbian activists who get fed up with being told they are transphobic because they won't accept people with dicks as women and sleep with them.

Transphobia is the new Islamophoia and will be replaced by another trend in due course.

Meanwhile from the era when men were men and women were women either straight or gay or greedy here's some humour that probably won't go down well with the snowflake brigade. Do I care what they think. Nope because it's all about attention seeking. Learn to play the piano or something. Everybody is a wannabe these days.