Brit Awards backlash as gender neutral move produces all-male nominees - should male and female categories be brought back? Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner, and Helen Joyce, Director of Advocacy at Sex Matters, discuss.
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Tatchell is again up representing trans people with his fact less commentary. Again attempting to sound like the 'reasonable' one.
In this interview he talks about 'trans brains' that are supposedly proven science now. He mentions that although it was appalling that women didn't get nominated this year in the major category, that they did win plenty so they should be happy about that. And he also confidently asserts that EVERY PERSON has a gender identity. Every one.
But the kicker at the end, he leveraged the murder of a teenager to make an appeal to emotion to allow trans people to have their demands met, even if those demands seem unreasonable to some. Because Peter assures us that although women are being harmed as well as trans people, people should be focused on prioritising that group (although he tries to make out that he is saying with his solutions that both groups have their needs met)
Is Peter Tatchell really considered to be the best spokesperson for trans issues?
It was only two weeks ago it looked like he joined other prominent 'spokespeople' in doing a reverse ferret about males going into female prisons. Effectively destroying the 'transwomen are women' mantra and the 'believe people are who they say they are' because it now has been shown that they are not always women after all.