Irish Eurovision band sack team member for saying a male rapist is not a woman

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Ian Banham - the creative director for the Irish Eurovision Song has been sacked by the other band members because he wrote a tweet calling out the press for referring to a male rapist as a ‘she’.

The band have issued this statement:

Wild Youth is a band that stands for unity and kindness. Our song represents our beliefs as a band. We have cut all ties with lan Banham and will not have him on or near our team or Eurovison journey. We are so sorry for anyone offended by his comments.

They are in effect sacking their band mate and they defending a rapist’s right to be called she’ and they say they stand for ‘kindness’.
There is a backlash, I wonder how much support they will get for this.

https://twitter.com/bandwildyouth/status/1650833255266934784?s=46&t=KoykWa-IFitZMrteWP2pKA

This is the lead singer, at leat he loves (himself) his middle of the road music..😂

new song incoming…

https://twitter.com/bandwildyouth/status/1570112392465469442?s=46&t=KoykWa-IFitZMrteWP2pKA

A bunch of safe middle-aged men identifying as wild youths. Are they transage?

That rapist is a MAN.

Absolutel clown world. Good to see that they're getting a pasting in the replies

I’m going to listen to their entry now. Hoping for something youthfully wild, obvs.

AFAIK Ian Banham is gay. So they fired a gay man who stood up for vulnerable women to show how kind and unifying they are!

I completely and utterly agree with him. However on the other hand also see that this is Eurovision and therefore they'd see it as potential vote loser if he remained hence making that decision.

Poor bloke! I hope he sues the arse off them.

They won’t have Ian Banham near them?

what do think will happen?

They think they'll be dragged by the torch bearing mob. Because they think it's 2016.

This is what happens when you try to be down with the kids. I bet Ian Banham was at his wit's end anyway as the 'creative director ' of these dullards.

Yes they have

i mean if they were saying it about a non raping trans woman i still wouldn’t agree with their actions but id sort if understand the ‘be kind’ bit

but no….its not inclusive or be kind or any of that

I was just thinking that

good lord

Kindness bloody hell! A man rapes a woman but he decides he's a woman and we have to .be kind fuck that!

All together now - ' My lovely horse , you're a pony no more.....'

How can you possibly identify as a woman whilst using your penis as a weapon…

No, he’s not. Funny though that that’s not what they fired him for.

The band don’t care what he thinks about women, only about transwomen.

But they didn't sack him for that?

Oh OK right thats fair but the trans rapist was just a step to far though .the euro act could have dropped him before but didn't.

They've chosen Rapist Hill to die on, then? Wild.

He (yes, he) was convicted of rape at a time when he didn't claim to be anything other than a man.

The mug shot was published when he was convicted of tying up and stabbing the vulnerable person he lived with, after he'd "identified" as a woman.

It's very dad band does U2 at the karaoke.

That lead singer really does love himself with dedication, I'll give him that.

The song is a formulaic decent enough pop song, as is the UK's. So I think the gender woo pronouncements from the 'middle to lower end of the table' entries are all about garnering publicity and telephone votes. So maybe next they'll be pictured drinking Bud wearing Nike sports bras wearing some Maybelline eye liner, but just casually, mind, while doing that wanky phone-hand gesture at the camera.

If the lead singer was ice cream, he'd be licking himself.

The song is awful but it is national jury and late late show audience demographic which voted for it.

It placed second with international jury.

Honestly, can't see it doing well or even getting through the heats to be honest.

That's way fucking worse if true. He celebrates an alleged human trafficker and that's not worthy of comment from the band. It's not until he misgenders a rapist that they have an issue?

It’s unbelievable!

I don’t know what’s happening but the world has gone insane

There is a bit of info in the bbc article linked upthread