Russell T Davies says he has gender critical friends - drama ensues

Lol, there’s a cringing apology at the bottom of the article now, saying the character had an incorrect pronoun introduced during editing that has now been corrected. Oh noes, mustn’t offend the fictional character!

From that review it sounds like Leo is the GC “friend,” and RTD has him lynched by bad people to show him why he should have been more enthusiastically pro-trans. SEE WHAT YOU MADE HIM DO?!

She's surely on borrowed time.

RTD certainly has recurring themes of Terrible Assumption Just Because a Middle Aged Gay Has A Very Young Friend.

Queer As Folk the lad was 16 or so. Cucumber now this

Lucy Mangan’s review is mildly scathing though forgiving for all his services to tv. Interesting that she calls the “transgender” character “he” too.

I'm not surprised at gay women.
As a heterosexual woman, I am not going to experience pressure to accept a trans woman as a sexual partner, they might be.

My skin crawls at the thought of it to be honest.
You could say well you might experience it from a trans man but I just can't see it somehow.

They do like a bit of cancelling. It would be mean of me to want Fat Tony and the dodgy ex copper to go after him, wouldn't it....

One of the staff writers on the new go at children's programme doctor who isTRA Juno Dawson . Also sooz kempner was doing something I can't quite remember.

I wonder if they'll disown him. Doctor who Reddit seems to demand it

He went out to the US writing rooms in california post that first Dr who revival.

There were a couple of reviwers saying he wasn't going to be great for Dr Who second time round as he a very different writer to previous incarnation -- and they were absolutely right.

This isn't his first state of the nation /Gays in Peril drama. In Cucumber 🥒 one character got Cruel gossip over moving in with a much younger flat mate who's parents get Deeply suspicious of the age gap, and then there was the one he did for the BBC with Emma Thompson as a fascist in Years and Years

My most vocal and fearless gender critical friends are all gay, male and female.

He's written as the worst kind of 2D monster, certainly if the clip is anything to go by.
I'd hate to watch if if I was a fan of him as well.

Tbh the ledger on Davies and Cummings re women, women and gays calling out trans ideology, their total dismissal of the dangers of TRA to women, youth transitioning, gays convinced by ideologues that they're really trans, and it's clear as day.
Their attitudes have been a clear and present danger.

I thought modern TV/film was all about banishing stereotypes, bringing nuance etc.
If it is, how come I have a trailer with David Morrissey as wall to wall raging violent homophobe? All I'm seeing is wall to wall stereotype and zero nuance.

Watched about 30 minutes and it's awful, preachy and just dog shit

Another man writing about how tough it is to be a man involving a cast mainly populated by men in a male-dominated industry.

Meanwhile, you go on any news site on any given day and there’s usually a story about how another poor woman or girl has had her life take or destroyed by a man. I wonder when he plans to write about that?

I watched the first 2 episodes last night. I felt it was fear mongering propaganda.

This programme has massively irritated me as I really like David Morrissey but can’t bring myself to watch him in this.

Agree about Jill, but Rose and Jackie and a few of the other female characters in the first couple of series of the rebooted Doctor Who were great.

I would put money on him mis-representing gc arguments in this series. I've never met a TRA who understood the gc arguments, even though they're pretty simple. Or possibly they misrepresent them deliberately - who knows?

This boggled me on reddit.

'RTDs trans rep is fucking garbage. He clearly doesn't understand our issues and is just portraying his best guess at what he thinks we are instead of hiring someone with lived experience to aid in his writing'

Can the poster not see that that is exactly what he is doing when he pretends to be a woman?

Reddit has been quite slow to load today and I'm assuming it's meltdown over this

RTD is among an extremely elite tier of TV writer/producers who changed the medium. In his case twice! Once with Queer as Folk and then with Dr Who. Writers should be judged by their strongest works not by their weakest, but unfortunately his weakest works (e.g. the ghastly return to Dr Who) make his weaknesses legible in the his best works. Basically you can't unsee it.

He writes women very badly, merely as props, e.g. Jill in It's a Sin, about whom we knew nothing bar her relationship to the men. And given she was based on a real woman, who he talked to, that was poor.

The misogyny is strong in that one.

I think the first two episodes are out.
Im going to watch when I can.
I know RTD is a TRA so I’m guessing the gender critical character is a cliched middle ages woman who befriends a lovely trans woman and sees the light and repents her sins etc. I might be wrong and I very much hope I am.
(but seriously doubt it. RTD doesn’t seem to
know much about or care much about women)

I still remember LOJs horrified response to the idea of him performing cunnilingus on a transman. Called it homophobic no less. Funny how they get it when it's applied to themselves

Totally agree.

I've read the reviews and I predict that the GC woman and the trans female will unite against the nasty male character and she'll realise that it's OK for him (trans woman) to use the ladies not the gents.
I can't say this is particularly insightful, I'm guessing nearly everybody here thinks the same.

Cause everybody must get along in his world.
I can't stand men like him.
Not going to happen in reality.
There's no way I'm going to accept this.

I don't hate trans women, but I do think that they are severely deluded and best avoided if possible.

Maybe Davies was in the right place at the right time?
I'm often surprised at how gay men seem to know each other.

He's from a solidly middle class background but not posh.