The school suspended a dying kid?? Like wtf? I hope someone/everyone working at that school is going to prison.

Two LGBT doctors in a row is quite cool.

It was the most viewed show on the day, beat every 13 festive special and matched 12’s. We have to go back to 2013 to find a special that beats it by any significant amount and that’s before streaming was so common.

Not sure why you’re claiming a ‘low view count’.

Sign?? What?

So you think gay people didn’t want rights pre 1974? Or were they just really secretive about it? I remember how subtle Stonewall was. Or that whole holocaust situation in the 40’s.

We have records of LGBT people arguing for their rights in antiquity.

You have no idea what you’re talking about clearly.

Do you think being gay is new?? People have ALWAYS been gay, people have ALWAYS been black. Both these fights go back to the dawn of time.

Doesn’t that suggest that LGBT people should have more rights at this point? Like gay marriage still isn’t legal in lots of places, but black people don’t have that issue.

I think the fairer thing to say is that the struggles have been very different for different groups of people.

I think most intolerance comes from a mix of unfamiliarity and being informed by rumour. When you ask a transphobe what the issues are they talk about paedophilia, forced conversion of children, all these things that of course don’t happen. It’s the boogyman under the bed.

I have some relatives who are basically intolerant of everything, other races, any religions, gay people, whatever. But one of their best friends is a 60 odd year old transwoman who came out like 15 years ago now and they are absolutely fine with her, use her correct pronouns, they do use some old fashioned terminology, like “used to be a man” and that sort of stuff but she also does the same.

Not to say that it is ever up to trans people to put themselves in rooms with bigots, but like, bigots having trans friends would help no end.

Absolutely. Top sprinters have a whole different kind of muscle structure to the average person. I can train 24/7 for the rest of my life and I’m never going to develop a whole different muscle structure.

As a short person I could never be the best basketballer, and with shorter legs I’ll never be a hurdler.

Sport is always a good percentage “what you’re born with”.