Miriam Margolyes being a massive transphobe

I swear the woman posting the Jim Davidson is a clever troll...!

I think Jim Davidson would be a perfect patron for Mermaids. He is one of the bitterest men I have ever come across.

He was caught cheating on his wife, so she left him. He takes no responsibility for his own actions here - but blames the Newspapers who reported it. He's still be married if it wasn't for those papers reporting it...

And of course, when it comes to taking sides - natal males "wanting" to be women will always have Jim's vote - over actual women who say, well, fine, wear dresses & makeup if you like, but you're not really women though, are you. See also: Billy Bragg, Owen Jones, beardy woke-bros.

So as a lesbian, is she ok that lesbians are frequently told to accept males as sexual partners?

How often do mermaids get to RT the comments of anyone with actual respect in the field? I don't follow them but do they rt evidence and statistics?

I mean, Jesus, relying on semi famous actors and comic has beans isn't exactly a pr boost for the charity.

Every single actor in the UK can come of and loudly declared their allegiance to Mermaids and I'll still be wholly opposed to putting children on a medical pathway to sterilisation and little to no sexual function and allowing intact males into women's prisons.

Disappointed when women who are old enough to get it, don't.
Same with Shirley Manson.

Miriam Margolyes is a twat anyway. I don’t know why these actors think the world needs to listen to their ridiculous bleatings.

Didn’t she kind of say she hoped Boris would die of coronavirus on the last leg (while he was in hospital)?

No. Filter.

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And there's tonnes of people saying "jk isn't a scientist..."

Yeah, cos obviously Jim Davidson and Miriam Margoyles are well up there among the Nobel prize winners for science.

She deeply unpleasant and revels in the discomfort it causes other people. Not someone worth listening to.

Israel plotted against Corbyn on film and it was televised so in that instance Miriam can't be faulted. Doesn't make her right on the trans issue

If she's saying be who you want to be, how is that transphobic? Am I missing something?

Apparently Jim is a trans ally. Amongst joshing about his White Privilege breakfast and digs at BLM and ‘lefties’ he expressed his support for TransWomen and how brave they must be.

That's hilarious.

Apparently Jim is a trans ally. Amongst joshing about his White Privilege breakfast and digs at BLM and ‘lefties’ he expressed his support for TransWomen and how brave they must be. It’s a bizarrely screwed up rant as per from Mr Davidson but I did chuckle to myself that someone had chosen to post it on a Mermaids thread. Maybe they’ll approach him to be a patron? Although to be fair I think his allegiances lie with TransWomen rather then Transmen (Oh what a surprise!)

Woe betide any non white transwoman. He won't like that.

You must be desperately clutching at straws to quote Jim Davidson in support of anything. Misogynist, racist...

'If you seriously want to be a woman you should be allowed to'

What does that mean, though? How is that meant to work? It's not like you can go on a course and get your official License To Woman at the end of it.

She describes herself as 'a massive dyke' and also tells the story of the Oxford don who tutored her when she was 17 who wore stockings under his trousers and called himself Agatha. “I thought he was going to tell me he was in love with me, but he said, ‘I want to be a woman. I was always meant to be a woman.’ I have had always that quality that people have thought they can talk to me and I think I had it then. He was a darling man and he was married but he wanted to be a woman . . . He said, ‘I want to cut this pole off.’”

As a 'massive dyke' I wonder how Miriam would have felt if he had declared himself to be in love with her? Would she have considered 'Agatha' as partner, or fallen in love with them? If not, why not Miriam? And should young lesbians today be able to reject partners like 'Agatha'? (It's notable that she misgenders this 'darling man' who was 'always meant to be a woman' throughout, revealing that she doesn't for a second think of him as female. Tut tut, such transphobia.)

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Have a look at The Mermaids tweet thanking her for her support. 12th comment down is someone called Stephanie who obviously is a bit of a Jim Davidson fan and happened to be watching his YouTube channel.

Apparently Jim is a trans ally. Amongst joshing about his White Privilege breakfast and digs at BLM and ‘lefties’ he expressed his support for TransWomen and how brave they must be. It’s a bizarrely screwed up rant as per from Mr Davidson but I did chuckle to myself that someone had chosen to post it on a Mermaids thread. Maybe they’ll approach him to be a patron? Although to be fair I think his allegiances lie with TransWomen rather then Transmen (Oh what a surprise!)

I’m not linking to his video but it’s there on the thread (for now!) if you care to see the context of his comments it’s 10 minutes in (not 5 as the attached screen grab states) when he talks about the BLM and Pride marches in Brighton.

Can this get any more surreal?!

"Since when did actors give anything any thought? Acting is a skill not an academic science"

Yes.

I'm always amazed at how much bandwidth is given to actors. As though being an actor means that you're possessing much intelligence. Jonathan Pie did a great thing on this in one of his earlier videos.

Plus MM has always been an especially 'look at meee' person, like an annoying child at a party.

Yes I agree. There aren't many actors I look to for incisive analysis of current affairs, any more than I would the man next to me in the bus queue.