John Cleese under fire for tweet transgenders | Entertainment

entertainment">The fuss started when someone quoted a tweet from Cleese from late September expressing his support for JK Rowling. The Harry Potter writer was accused of transphobia earlier this year for saying she doesn’t want gender identity to replace the idea of ​​a biologically determined sex.

entertainment">When someone on Twitter asked him for a statement about Rowling and transphobia on Sunday, Cleese replied: “I’m afraid I’m not very interested in that. I hope they are happy and people treat them well. But at the moment I focus more on the threat to democracy in America, the corruption in the UK, the horrible British press and the revelations about police brutality. ”

entertainment">Another follower then attacked him, saying, among other things, “Why don’t you just let people be who they want to be?” Cleese then joked that deep down he felt like a Cambodian policewoman and asked the follower if he could. When someone informed him that he did not understand transgender people, the comedian agreed. He did add that he does not believe that ‘women who were once a man’ should not compete against biological women in sports competitions.

entertainment">In a later tweet, Cleese said he was done with the lack of perspective on Twitter, “and of course the complete lack of a sense of humor.”

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