Julie Burchill: ‘It would’ve been braver for Jenner to come out as gay’
By Will Stroude
Feminist author and columnist Julie Burchill has launched a tirade against Caitlyn Jenner, branding the her “selfish”, “vain” and “dodgy”-looking.
The 55-year-old self-described ‘militant feminist’ made the comments in a column for the Sunday Times entitled, ‘Put your kit back on, Caitlyn. Changing sex is vain, not brave’, where she responded to news of Jenner’s transition and her recently-unveiled Vanity Fair cover.
Burchill wrote: “Transitioning is nothing more than something people do in the pursuit of happiness via extreme selfishness.
“I have no moral objection to this — that’s how I’ve lived my life and it has made me very happy. It’s not ‘bad’ – but it’s certainly not brave.”
The Sugar Rush – who has previously described trans people as “big white blokes who have their cocks cut off” – added that “transgendered” people who have criticised her in the past like to “play the bed-wetting victim”, branding them the “cry-bullies of identity politics”.
She continued: “Another oddity is the knee-jerk claims of ‘bravery’ made by their monstrous regiments of cyberfans.
“While I do think that people who transition (awful word, reminiscent of the sci-fi dream of teleporting, but ‘sex change’ is unfashionably no-nonsense these days) have guts, I wouldn’t say they’re ‘brave’, as they’re doing it just for themselves, and bravery is about doing things for other people — being a fireman, being a soldier on the side of freedom, being someone who stands up to any sort of fascism. (And being someone who donates bits of their body to others while they’re still alive, rather than have them chucked in the surgical waste bin.)
She concluded: “It would have been far braver, in my opinion, to come out as homosexual in the macho circles in which Maloney and Jenner became wealthy and powerful.”
If you need to consume something positive after all that vile dross, E! Online recently revealed the first official trailer for Caitlyn Jenner’s new documentary series I Am Cait – watch it here now.
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