Originally Posted by
lardy
He's my favourite comedy writer. I followed him on twitter off the back of that, scrolling past his tweets mostly without looking closely, as I'd do with most I follow. Then it dawned on me, that I only ever saw him arguing about trans stuff and it's not my bag, so I unfollowed him.
And then it was his thing, and whenever he popped up he was just being angry about trans people. Surely, friends family agents colleagues associates etc must have advised him to tone it down a bit, but he didn't, it was a hill he wanted to die on, and he pretty much has.
The weird thing is that the IT Crowd has probably the most sensitive depiction of a trans character in a sitcom that I can remember, especially as it was about 15 years ago, when Douglas falls in love with a woman who used to be a man and ends the episode crying about losing someone he connected so deeply with.