I feel more disappointed about Lee and, to some extent Christie, than almost anyone. I've always found him very funny and I do think a large part of his act is self-mockery - setting himself up as a clever-arse who looks down on other comedians. I also loved Jerry Springer the Opera. Lee really paid the price for exercising his free speech: the campaign against it by right-wing Christian groups meant he ended up not making very much money out of it.
What I find hard to understand is that he doesn't seem to have grasped what's going on. Take his attacks on Gervais. Gervais makes fun of people like Kaitlyn Jenner which isn't, by any stretch of the imagination, punching down. Does Lee really think it is?
And surely he can't have missed the absolutely vicious attacks on women by trans activists: the death threats, the rape threats, the pornography tweeted at JK Rowling, the physical assaults on Maria Maclachlan and others? Women losing their jobs and contracts because activists have reported them to their employers?
You would think that someone whose right to free speech came under attack as aggressively as his did would think twice before supporting a group of activists who want to silence dissent.
And yet when I look at Christie's comment about letting trans people use the toilets, I wonder if either of them have understood that this isn't really about toilets? It's about hospital wards, rape crisis centres, domestic violence refuges, sports, prisons, mammograms, care homes...
But you could only miss all that if you were making a concerted attempt not to notice it.