Another day , another outdated , outmoded , and anachronistic politician saying something ridiculous and offensive . This clock time it ’s the turn of former Chairman of the British Conservative Party , Lord Norman Tebbit , who haswritten in a national newspaperthat he think befoulment is make people transgender .
In a remark piece in The Telegraph , the 86 - year - old Peer , who it is worth notice has a moderately elaborate record of speak out against LGBT+ rights , claims that the rise in people identifying as transgender is possibly downto the increase in pollution , and that science backs him up . I fear this might be overkill , but scientific discipline really does n’t .
“ I intend it is time we had some enquiry into the extent of the phenomenon both in time and geographic reach,”wroteLord Tebbit . “ I do not roll in the hay if the population of third world or of urban or of rural societies are more or less unnatural . ”
“ Nor is it known if it is only our species or others living alongside us which have been touch on , but that knowledge might point to a trigger such as pollution , which is the feeling of some scientists , ” he keep on .
Predictably , this is n’t the first time that a British politician has descend up with some bat - cocksucker account for the increase in multitude identifying as LGBT+ . Only earlier this year a Liberal Democrat ( yeah , the irony is n’t lose on us either ) parliamentary candidate Susan King lay claim that “ there are a heap of feminising endocrine getting into the environment and that has to be taken into consideration ; it ’s affecting hoi polloi ’s gender , fundamentally . ”
In other words , she thinks that thewater is give the great unwashed gay . The thought of gay piddle has been floating around the internet for some metre now , with the ever measure and grounded Alex Jones being one of the theory’sbiggest champion . Speaking in soft , not at all terrifying tones from his InfoWars studio apartment , Jones has previously tease against the fact that gay water is making men put on myopic skirts and wear lip rouge . Which , I ’m certain you do n’t really need reminding , is not actually the same thing as being a homosexual .
Anyway , there is solace in the fact that Lord Tebbit is simply yet another dinosaur who ’ll ( hopefully ) make way for a more accepting and well - inform politico . But we still have to keep in mind that he is still a member of the House of Lords , and thus has more influence than the vast absolute majority of multitude in the body politic when it comes to the rights of others , such as transgender people . Not to advert that he has enough influence to get his moth - eaten views published in a national newsprint .
