Debbie Hayton Debbie Hayton

Ricky Gervais is no ‘transphobe’

Ricky Gervais (Credit: Netflix)

Ricky Gervais knew what he was doing and why he was doing it when he took on transgender activism in his new Netflix special, SuperNature. Three quarters of an hour into his set, he told his audience: 

‘I talk about AIDS, famine, cancer, the Holocaust, rape, paedophilia…the one thing you should never joke about is the trans issue.

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