The BBC has told viewers that straight men who refuse to date transgender people are ‘transphobic’ and could be prosecuted under Britain’s hate crime laws.
In an article following the recent Celebrity Big Brother row – in which U.S. former singer ‘Ginuwine’ turned down a kiss from fellow male-to-female contestant India Willoughby – the BBC asked viewers “is it discriminatory to refuse to date a trans woman?”
Breitbart.com reports: Asked by the 51-year-old ITV Border reporter whether he would “go out with a transexual woman”, Ginuwine replied: “I believe it’s your choice… I would choose not to.”
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Britain’s public service broadcaster quotes Liadh Timmins, a research associate at King’s College London who objects to being referred to as either ‘him’ or ‘her’, who argues that it is “transphobic” to not want sexual contact with a transgender person.
“Sexual attraction is a response to stimuli – that can be based on any number of things for example waist to hip ratio, certain behaviours, or breast size,” said the psychology researcher, who argued it is possible that transgender individuals who swap gender “very early on” may look “physically identical to a [woman born female] at a surface level”.
Asserting that it is a question of philosophy rather than science, Dr. Timmins said: “So being unwilling to date on the basis of someone being trans, rather than on the basis of individual stimuli is something I would personally call transphobic.”
To present the other side of the debate, the BBC went to Nigerian transgender awareness activist Miss Sahhara, who said Ginuwine’s comments did not seem to be motivated by prejudice as he had looked to be engaged in “a very comfortable conversation with India”, but was tricked into ‘transphobia’ by a biased media.
“I do not want to call it transphobic. When someone is transphobic they don’t sit next to them,” said the UK-based beauty pageant-winner, adding that the singer’s comments were characteristic of “an ignorant person who has not been with a trans woman before”.
“It was more of an ignorance, fed by a media that often depicts trans women in a sensationalised way, with strong bone structure and husky low-baritone voices,” the Nigerian said, blasting a so-called “toxic masculinity” which makes people “violent and rude” about sexual attraction to “trans women”.
Catholic Universe columnist Caroline Farrow, however, said she believes Willoughby’s assertion of womanhood is merely a “license to bully women”, accusing the TV journalist of ‘browbeating’ and ‘intimidating’ anyone neglecting to embrace the ITV presenter as 100 per cent female.
In a piece for the Conservative Woman, Farrow rejected the premise that women should welcome men who identify as women into a virtual “sisterhood”.
She wrote:
If he thinks or says he’s a woman, you have to suck it up, sister. Not only that, but you need to accept that you can no longer use words such as ‘mother’ or refer to breast-feeding and menstruation as being female functions. You must educate your daughters that their feminine duty is compassionate silence and acquiescence when faced with men who want to wear your clothes, buy your eggs, rent your womb or better still have you donate it to them, trample all over your boundaries, and disregard your lived experience.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
What MAN in his right MIND wants to go out with a transvestite with a dick??
The word “phobia” is incorrectly applied; phobia means fear of. If I as a straight male refuse to date a transgender it is not out of fear, but of choice ie preference. The word phobia is used to here to bully those who make a choice the accuser doesn’t like. It is a baseless ad-hominem attack without any substance in reality.
It also carries the specific implication of “irrational” ‘fear of’. Which makes it an insult, of which I am less certain of, those who ‘levi’ the claim or those it is levi’d against.
Go fuck your self!!!
The problem with Transgender women is that they think, if they look like a woman that they are a woman…but that’s not true.
A real man wants a real woman….no transgenders. Attention disorders are a problem and don’t stop by changing your gender. Just look for help before you are mutulating your own holy body.
The lunacy of liberals pushing the gay agenda is laughable. If a man wants to be straight and only date women that is his business and nobody elses. To infer he is afraid to the point of paranoid reaction is a unfounded assumption based on hate and ignorance. Liberalism is a mental disease.
Well and fine if a man makes the choice to date another man who looks and dresses like a woman – that’s his business. And if a man want’s to be with a woman and have children with her – something than can never happen with another man that’s HIS business too. You heterophobic trans agenda lunatics out there should go fuck yourselves and start your own race if you don’t like what nature has already provided.
I recognize only three genders, Male, Female, and Freak.
You forgot the fourth one – southern white trash.
Sooooooooooo if a heterosexual man goes up to a lesbian and she refuses to go out with him it is hetrophobia so is that a hate crime?