Jeremy Clarkson also claims trans children have ‘minds poisoned by lunatic parents’

Writing in the Sunday Times, he said, children with gender identity issues should not be indulged any more than people who thought they were Napoleon.

“As far as I was concerned, men who want to be women were only really to be found on the internet or in the seedier bits of Bangkok. They were called ladyboys, and in my mind they were nothing more than the punchline in a stag night anecdote.”

Clarkson went on to tell the anecdote of a child, born a boy but had insisted from the age of three that she had a girl’s name and wore girls’ clothes and, later, that she went to a girls’ school.”And her parents had simply indulged this whim,” he said.

He said a doctor friend compared it to Napoleon complex saying: “I get lots of people in my surgery with a Napoleon complex. But I don’t buy them a pointy hat and a French army uniform.”

The Topgear star added: “When I was five I wanted to be Alan Whicker, but my parents didn’t buy me a blazer and send me to hospital to have my adenoids sewn up.”

Referring to gender re-assignment in prisons like the Isle of Wight, he said: “They tell the screws they want to be women, they get a bit of make-up and some breasts to play with and they are then transferred to a women’s prison, where they can spend the rest of their lives being a lesbian. It’s every man’s dream.”

Attitude mag contributor James Dawson reacted angrily on Twitter.

I always try to be polite but in this case: Clarkson, get in the fucking sea. https://t.co/SHv2tW6knU

— Juno Dawson (@junodawson) January 24, 2016

I'm angry about that Clarkson piece as much as I don't want to waste air on him. But he's the reason why I find the tube terrifying.

— Juno Dawson (@junodawson) January 24, 2016

Other readers shared Dawson’s outrage:

Batty, transphobic article by Clarkson in The Times today. He's like your out-of-touch grandpa.

— Matt Lucas (@RealMattLucas) January 24, 2016

jeremy clarkson is so disgusting. he's a cis man who knows nothing about trans struggles. pic.twitter.com/VCDkbs8NI3

— gem Ⓥ (@vegbby) January 24, 2016

Oh, Jeremy Clarkson said something stupid and hateful? It must be a day of the week.

— Jim RESISTerling (@JimSterling) January 24, 2016