Here's an old Frankie Boyle bit that seems relevant, again.
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So I was thinking about all this recently, right, I was watching Netflix .. and I watched Ricky Gervaises new stand-up special and he does a big bit in it about trans women.
Now, I've got but love for trans women, nothing but love and support for trans folk in general. But they themselves would admit it's a very contentious that people try not to talk about. And Ricky Gervais obviously, he's a very powerful guy in show business. So nobody really who had the best years of their careers ahead of them would tell you what they thought of that routine.
Ricky Gervais, he does maybe fifteen minutes where he goes: well, if a trans woman can say that they are a woman, I can say that I'm a chimpanzee, I'm a chimpanzee: and my genuine reaction was, it's not that much weirder then Ricky Gervais saying that he's a stand-up comedian.
I mean look, we know Ricky Gervais, he's a brilliant actor, he's a brilliant writer, he's not a fucking stand-up comedian. Just cause Ricky Gervais self-identifies as a stand-up comedian, am I supposed to say he is one. It's fucking political correctness gone mad. (applause)
Also, loving animals brilliant, wonderful, going on about loving animals suspect. So I watched the whole of Ricky Gervaises show. I felt a bit like Fred Astaire watching a guy in calipers fall down an escalator."