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

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RTD's new drama Tip Toe is about to start. A Guardian article on it has seen online drama.

‘How often I’m called a paedophile online is shocking’: inside Russell T Davies’s horrifying drama about rising hatred
The creator of It’s a Sin is back – and he’s furious. His new series, Tip Toe, explores the rise of homophobia through a feud between two Manchester neighbours. He and stars Alan Cumming and David Morrissey talk death, fear and ‘joy as a form of protest’...

Trying to get in as well rounded a view of the issues at stake here is a deliberate choice by Davies. Spit & Polish’s employees are mostly a younger generation of LGBTQ+ people. He sought advice from the writer Juno Dawson, with whom he worked on Doctor Who, about how to portray the trans characters in the show, including the charming and endearing employee Zee (Iz Hesketh). Stephanie (Elizabeth Berrington), Leo’s close friend whom we see throughout the series, is gender-critical – believing that biological sex cannot be changed from birth.

“I wanted all sorts of voices in there,” says Davies. “I’ve got friends who are gender-critical. It’s only online you end up screaming and shouting and being attacked by them. In real life, you have a chat, and we all kind of sigh and put up with each other. That’s how the world works. It’s actually how the world is ceasing to work.” As terrifying violence looms towards the end of the series, Stephanie and Zee end up on the same side.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/29/inside-russell-t-davies-tip-top-drama-alan-cumming-david-morrissey

It is now over for RTD he can't have friends who think like that according to the TAs. That makes him "intolerant". On Bluesky there is massive push back. RTD has aroused the hatred of Windy!!! Someone else has threatened to kill RTD over this.

Details and screenshots from James Dreyfus.

James Dreyfus

Russell T Davies says, in an interview, that he has “gender-critical friends”. Bear in mind, that he is extremely vocal in support of the LGBTQIA+, especially the QT. (Although, curiously there were NO trans or non-binary characters in “Queer As Folk”…an odd oversight, considering they apparently “fought for our rights” & were ‘ubiquitous’ in 1999…🤔) Anyway, apparently his support is not meeting the skyscraper-high threshold for their purity test & he’s now being attacked for his choice of friends by the very people he champions. Which seems to me to be a trifle harsh, irrational & certainly predictable.

This outcome probably demonstrates that it’s perhaps unwise to engage in genial horseplay with your pet rattlesnake, unless you’ve a fridge packed with anti venom & are handy with a needle…

James Dreyfus
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Re: my earlier post.

It’s odd to be in a position where my instinct is to defend Russell T Davies, when I’m pretty sure the favour wouldn’t be returned, but to see the outpouring of venom directed at him today for daring to have ‘ GC friends’ patently shows how ANY deviation from the approved narrative is as dangerously precarious as stroll across a barbed-wire tightrope…

These reactions are just insane.

https://nitter.net/DreyfusJames/status/2060768949059674466#m

So will RTD experience this backlash and see things from a different point of view?

The other big question is will the Terfy character in the series suddenly convert to thinking biology is not a thing at some point. Presumably a man is going to do some violence at some point. If this prompts any women character to go - "oh no men are being violent - IT MUST BE MY FAULT! Why did I have opinions!" It will be very very dumb.

If on the other hand you have a trans type and a gender crit being jointly horrified by male violence and managing to unite to condemn it you might have something you don't see in any drama so far, but happens IRL a lot. Because men being violent is kind of a thing.

This is hilarious.

Ooh, the traitor. All those childhood memories that now have to be binned, along with Harry Potter. Waaaah, mummyyyyyyyy 😫

The reddit thread is hilarious. So much mantrumming.

James Dreyfus is a much nicer person than I am.

it's the purity spiral of doom :)

It could only be funnier if he’d been for tea at JKR’s house.

OMG that happened, and they laughed

Thanks for the heads up, I'll take his programme off my to-watch list.

He really is a bog standard, up his own arse typical bloke isn't he 🙄

I think it’s for the relationship of the school boy and older man in Queer as Folk.

I looked up that image using Google Lens and it gave me two separate terrifically wrong results.

Was Cucumber one of his shows, because that had similar too.

That’s hilarious.

Yes, he made cucumber but I can’t remember a relationship between a teenager and an adult. In Queer as Folk a 15 year old had a sexual relationship with a late 20s man.

Schoolteacher who had been sleeping with his student.

Which was a thing in the 90s, One of my schoolfriends did. There weren't many out gay lads of his own age.

Hahahah no trans or non binary people in “queer as folk” - cause it was the 90s and everyone knew what men and women were back then!

Also screamed at “by them”? As in GC women?! In my experience it’s not us doing the screaming…

All sounds like bollocks anyway, won’t be watching. RTD has spectacularly missed the point I think, I’m sure the GC woman will learn her lesson by the end and be happily signing away all her sex based rights 🙄 (funny how “peaking” never happens the other way around isn’t it…)

I'm sure its a lot easier for gay men to "sigh and get on with each other" because they aren't being threatened with violence by transmen telling them they should get over their genital preferences and have sex with a man with a vagina, are they?

Oops sorry. I love those Daleks really. Misunderstood rather than evil I say.
They don't want to take over the universe, they just think they do. I'm sure that when they succeed in being complete controllers of the universe they'll realise it's all been a terrible misunderstanding and hand it all back and we'll all have a nice cup of tea. And cake. Definitely cake. And aren't they cute, the way they just bumble about shooting at things with their plunger things?

Dalek 😍

And another thing I've never seen a Dalek in the ladies wearing badly applied lipstick and a a too short skirt trying to pass himself off as a woman so thumbs up to those Daleks.

to show his allyship, would Russell have sex with a trans identified female, who says she’s a man? I’m guessing not.

Daleks gonna Dalek

Can you imagine an honest drama where a couple of these unhinged types invade the women's changing room/toilets and do the wanking with the doors open while shouting at the women that they can't stop them, or take selfies of themselves, or search the sanpro bins and use the used products?

Or where the woman character, a sympathetic one naturally to match all the very sympathetically portrayed TQ characters - with a history of VAWG, trauma and perhaps a culture need too - is forced to submit to a man presenting as a woman police officer strip searching her despite her fear and distress? Basically the other side of the story to the same degree of emotiveness that the TQ agenda has been pushed through drama?

Situations that have actually happened, and which Burnham et al would like to return women to - can you imagine the electorate's response to having their eyes widely opened like that?

TipToe sounds like a drama written by AI using articles from the Guardian/Metro as source.

Harry Potter has more grounding in reality than this drama.

There.
(Waiting for image)

Trans Daleks that'll be the next thing. I can see it now: they've formed some kind of alliance with traitorous humans to take over the world.
To foster relations, they pick Earth names to be known by...

Dave the Dalek: You have completed part A of our masterplan?

Ally human: Yes Dave we have.

Dave the Dalek: Dave? My name is not Dave. It is Susan. I have always been Susan on the inside. You have misgendered me! You have misgendered me--ee!! You are an enemy of the trans Daleks. Exterminate. EXTER-MIN-ATE!!

Hmmm. Would I rather meet a Dalek or Juno Dawson in a dark alley?
Decisions decisions.

I went off Daleks after IW's confession on Celebrity Big Brother.