Roger Helmer! And some transphobia.

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Roger Helmer! And some transphobia.

By Zoe O'Connell, on January 19, 2011

http://www.complicity.co.uk/blog/2011/01/roger-helmer-and-some-transphobia/

There, now I've got your attention. No, that wasn't an expletive although it could well be – Roger Helmer is a Tory MEP who is in the new recently for his Tweet:

    Why is it OK for a surgeon to perform a sex-change operation, but not OK for a psychiatrist to try to "turn" a consenting homosexual?

I wasn't going to blog about this as although it's annoyed me, it's been handled elsewhere, by several people.

But two things have made me change my mind. Firstly, the mainstream coverage such as the BBC and the Guardian is reporting heavily on the homophobic angle complete with quotes from Stonewall but completely ignoring the Transphobia. (Yes, this is one of those instances where it is an LGB and T issue)