It is utterly bizarre as in other areas he's pretty socially liberal, he helped the pro-choice campaign in Ireland for example.
But when it comes to a discussion on the topic of transgender rights/people he just cannot use reasonable terms.
I don't know enough about the whole topic to judge him/not judge him, and there is a lot of discussion on my FB wall around it, and there is SO much to unpick...
I often rewatch the IT Crowd, and the trans episode in there hasn't aged well at all. As far as I can recall the rest of his writing is pretty liberal / tolerant.
It's a really odd and unexpected hill he's chosen to die on - all I've heard from him for a number of years is related to this subject.
It is utterly bizarre as in other areas he's pretty socially liberal, he helped the pro-choice campaign in Ireland for example.
But when it comes to a discussion on the topic of transgender rights/people he just cannot use reasonable terms.
I don't know enough about the whole topic to judge him/not judge him, and there is a lot of discussion on my FB wall around it, and there is SO much to unpick...
But wow, this is definitely not on.