Election Notes: E-Day -9

There’s always something a bit disappointing when someone that you’d previously thought of as a good egg, turns out to be a bit of a git. 

My opinion David Tennant was based on nothing than him being really good in one thing that I briefly liked – Doctor Who – and also never learning anything about him to that might counter that good opinion.

So his widely reported comments made a few days ago when receiving an award for being a ‘celebrity ally’ at the British LGBT awards caused me to rethink that previous opinion.

He said in his acceptance speech: “If I’m honest I’m a little depressed by the fact that acknowledging that everyone has the right to be who they want to be and live their life how they want to live it as long as they’re not hurting anyone else should merit any kind of special award or special mention because it’s common sense, isn’t it?

However, until we wake up and Kemi Badenoch doesn’t exist any more – I don’t wish ill of her, I just wish her to shut up – whilst we do live in this world, I am honoured to receive this.’

His idea of ‘acknowledging that everyone has the right to be who they want to be and live their life how they want to live it’ involves denying biological reality and massively curtailing the rights and freedoms of the majority of the UK population at the expense of a minority of a minority.

According to the 2021 census, women – the ones with vagina’s and not delusions – made up 51% of the UK population, whereas all transgender people – both trans-men and trans-women – and people who identify as non-binary made up 0.5% of it.

Of course Tennant was making these statements in front of an audience who would’ve agreed with the views he was espousing.  Is his wishing that Kemi Badenock didn’t exist and to shut up any different really to Alan Baker, or Sarah Jane Baker as he wants to be known, who last year told a crowd of trans activists, ‘’if you see a terf, punch them in the face‘?

Leaving aside the absolute bastardisation of language that even allows a word like ‘terf’ to have entered the lexicon – an acronym that stands for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist – the idea that anyone standing up for women’s rights is in anyway a either a radical or a feminist is laughably absurd, really what is the difference between the two statements.

Tennant’s comments are to me on the same spectrum as Baker’s comments were. Different ends of it granted, but the same spectrum nonetheless  They come from the same place, a place of ideological inversion, deluded reality and intolerant tolerance. Tennant knew he wasn’t jeopardising anything by saying those things, to those people at that event.  He knew that wasn’t doing a Lawrence Fox on his career.

That right that Tennant seems so keen on, that ’everyone has the right to be who they want to be and live their life how they want to live it’, isn’t a universal one it seems. ’ 

Does this remind anyone else of that line in ‘Animal Farm’?

“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”