Lewis Hamilton

It doesn't bother me in the slightest that he makes comments about kids in dresses. It does bother me a lot that he has been a massive tax dodger for years though.

It's always about them though isn't it.

I wish they'd leave all those wonderful children - who are young enough not to have bought into gendered rubbish - alone, instead of using them for their own gains.

'Let's just say this comment probably has more to do with LH than his nephew'

These things usually do!

He's obviously a total twerp. I agree with others that he had no business putting footage of him mocking this little boy in the public domain. Bloody depressing that it's been jumped on as being 'transphobic' though. He's a little boy in a dress, not a 'trans' anything.

“Boys don’t wear princess dresses”
(Someone put two images like this together on twitter yesterday)
He is a fool.

Boys cannot be princesses they can only be princes, that's a fact as far as I know?

It’s also a fact that very very few girls can actually be princesses, though they can dress up as them. Why can’t boys dress up as them too?

Rhythm

Indeed

Don't you think it's more serious that he's a massive tax dodger?

Does not the fact LH wears two earrings point to the fact that he is, in fact, a girl himself?

Sadly lots of people reading the tweet have probably donated to Mermaids. So manipulative.

Well tbf dresses aren't for boys are they?

They can wear them if they want to but the vast majority don't and boys are not who dresses are aimed at when designed/sold.

Boys cannot be princesses they can only be princes, that's a fact as far as I know?

Given that the extent of Hamilton's largesse runs to him donating a pair of trainers to a charity, I can't see him donating to Mermaids any time soon.

This has made me so angry! I don’t have any respect for Lewis Hamilton anyway but the whole thing is just horrible. His rubbish ‘joke’, his obviously drafted by his PR apology, his retweeting of every message in support... the whole thing.

And then for the trans activists to jump on it and suggest he donates to Mermaids is just the worst. What Hamilton said (‘boys don’t wear dresses’) is exactly the same as saying if a boy wears a dress he is really a girl. Exactly the same. Why can’t they see that?!

Just let everyone wear whatever the fuck they want.

And following on from that... Do transvestites/drag artists literally not exist now?

bleedin'

Irk

That twitter post from Danielle would be funny if it weren't so beedin' stupid

The Guardian's article on this story quoted Travis Alabanza (the gender fluid, non-binary man who demanded access to women's changing rooms in topshop and ruined it for us all).

'I hope @LewisHamilton properly thinks and apologises to his nephew for that video. Thinks about why it is so horrible, and considers donating to a charity which supports LGBT youth. That video is a video so many of us have experienced. Gross. It sticks with you'

www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/dec/26/lewis-hamilton-accused-of-humiliating-his-young-nephew-online?CMP=fb_gu

Totally inappropriate choice of person... A boy in a dress does not mean the boy is a girl ffs.

John Barrowman was called transphobic for wearing a dress.

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MrGHardy
Because there IS no definition of transphobia. It's 'anything I take exception to!' That's why sane , inclusive, kind women are repeatedly called transphobic for standing up for the rights / safety of women and children.
It was a foolish comment (and I reckon bullying) to post it about such a young child).

There is no logic in why he is being called half the things he is. He shared his opinion (Not one I share) and humiliated a child (which is not on), yet TRAs make it all about them. Did he apologise for publicly humiliating the child?

His tweet was not transphobic. It was gender conforming and patriarchal. He is in a sport that is both.

So why were people calling him transphobic?

Sorry, I wasn’t clear. Transwomen also (like Lewis Hamilton) say that boys don’t wear dresses. Because they’re not boys if they wear dress. They’re “really” girls.

This exactly

It was a horrible thing to say - there is something "awkward " about 'Hamilton, like those people who tell hurtful "jokes".

This should probably go in 'sleb'. I know someone who worked a yacht in Monte Carlo. Let's just say this comment probably has more to do with LH than his nephew. lips are sealed high court injunctions !

It was a sexist comment. If the Spiked article is accurate it might have been said in a joking sort of way. Not a brilliant joke but hardly deserving of the storm that followed. Hopefully someone in the Hamilton family ( the boy's mother / whoever bought the present?) explained this to him in a reasoned way.

The comment is not transphobic.

Plus he is a knob of the highest order anyway.

Yeah, peace on earth and goodwill to all men.

His tweet was not transphobic. It was gender conforming and patriarchal. He is in a sport that is both.