LONDON — Trans campaigners are criticising Jeremy Clarkson after he dismissed issues faced by the transgender community in his latest Sunday Times column.
The former Top Gear presenter recounted a story told to him about an 8-year-old transgender girl, who had been assigned male at birth but had been living as a female since age 3.
"Her parents had simply indulged this whim," Clarkson wrote in the Times in a column titled "Transgender issues are driving me nuts."
"As far as I was concerned, men who want to be women were only really to be found on the Internet or in the seedier bits of Bangkok," he wrote. "They were called ladyboys, and in my mind they were nothing more than the punchline in a stag night anecdote." Read more...
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