I’ve never recorded anything for Womans hour either so I’m fully behind this person I have never heard of. It’s an absolute shambles that Woman’s Hour won’t record anything with me.

Some of these places are probably are keen to steer clear of controversial issues. And if you've expressed anti-trans opinions, you now become controversial. And they'll think it's not worth the risk.

But it's also very silly to claim you've been cancelled because Woman's Hour won't book you (despite many people on Twitter asking for it!!).

Any regular contributor to TV and radio interviews has got bumped and not really had a proper explanation why. I've seen loads of people whinge about it and claim it must be because their views are too dangerous, too explosive, the broadcasters are trying to close down the debate. They may just be really dull.

Maybe she's also not very interesting and won't necessarily attract an audience?

Kow wrote:

If the reason is they think she's controversial and not worth the risk then maybe it is a problem. You could say it's the same reason no media outlet seems to want to represent Palestinian views. Too controversial and not worth the risk. No medium is under any obligation to book anyone but hearing points of view you don't agree with is healthy and should be encouraged.

She seems like she's on the extreme end of the debate, only going from that article. E.g. breaking an agreement and misgendering people to their faces in interviews. Hardly surprising it didn't air and she hasn't been brought back in.

So maybe at that point you're getting away from healthy debate and more into winding people up and offending them.

Sounds to me like a classic case of fucking around, and finding out. Again, boo fucking hoo.

I googled her and found out she's given an interview to GB News. So that's her blacklisted for life as far as I'm concerned. She better hope I'm never put in charge of one of the nation's major current affairs outlets.

In said interview, she made the claim that some of the support for trans rights comes from gay men that were closeted during the Section 28 debate and are trying to make up for it, and another branch of the support is from the portion of gay men that hate women.

It's not hard to see why some of the media think nah, you're alright thanks.

You’re not part of a nuanced, empathetic and humanistic debate if your starting position is to deny what someone believes is their right to exist

This seems quite simple to me?

By all means hold that view, and find ways to persuade people. But outright stating it is hardly going to win hearts and minds. So it’s a boring “I’m right you’re wrong” winning the argument on question time / twitter style thing and that’s deeply unwatchable

I also think comparing this person’s ’inability to get a hearing’ (due to, as she puts it ‘expressing views outside the narrow channel of acceptability’) because of media cowardice, with the Palestinian viewpoint being stifled due to same cowardice, is not good: it remains very easy to find, in mainstream mass media, all sorts of viewpoints regarding transgender people from (what I believe to be) the grossly offensive to the completely accepting. Finding same on Palestine is harder

In short: not a great person, it seems at least from this article, to exemplify the shutting down of legitimate concerns regarding the rights of transgender people by mainstream media. What are your thoughts Knight?

Yeah I'm not going to stress about every cunt who thinks they should be on TV, radio or whatever but aren't. Fuck em and their opinions.

Knight wrote:

I won’t be contributing anymore to the thread so apologies in advance to anyone engaging with my post, but don’t feel like you need to.

Let's not forget this recent gem. Suspect he's dropped another awesome fact bomb that's too deep for us mortals to get our heads round, while he's gone back to getting more truths from objective sources

Funkstain wrote:

In short: not a great person, it seems at least from this article, to exemplify the shutting down of legitimate concerns regarding the rights of transgender people by mainstream media. What are your thoughts Knight?

Sounds like a horrible person complaining about not being famous and here we are talking about her, including me. This is why I hate social media and when it bleeds into the forum.

"Rape" was actually the Crue's initial band name. They just kept the outfits in the end.

They're Gladiators. They should be trenned up to their fuckin eyeballs and on speed, like Shadow was. That dude was terrifying. I've seen the reboot and it has precisely zero edge.

EvilRedEye wrote:

Giant from Gladiators has been embroiled in scandal for endorsing steroids in an old YouTube video.

Well yeah. Look at him.

It does seem like a bit of a storm in a teacup - he’s said he’s always been open about his steroid use so presumably the BBC knew about it.