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"Top Gear" Host Jeremy Clarkson Says Trans Kids Are "Poisoned By Lunatic Parents"

"It’s what kids do: dream impossible dreams. You don’t actually take them seriously."

Former BBC host Jeremy Clarkson had some harsh words for both transgender people and their parents.

In his column for The Sunday Times, Clarkson goes off on the trans community, claiming the issues that they're currently fighting for have been widely exaggerated.

Clarkson first voices his displeasure with equal rights activists, saying now that same-sex marriage has become legal, "they have decided that we must now all turn our attention to the plight of people who want to change their name from Stan to Loretta."

Clarkson, who was fired from the BBC show Top Gear last year after it was alleged that he punched a producer, continued his rant by turning his anger towards the parents of trans children.

He argued that they can't simply "indulge the whims" of their kids, saying:

"I wanted to seek them out and explain that they were free to live a lunatic life...But they must not, and I was going to emphasize this with spittle, be allowed to poison the mind of a child.

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. Other kids wanted to be super army soldiers or astronauts. It’s what kids do: dream impossible dreams.

You don’t actually take them seriously. You don’t take them to a hospital when they’re 10 and say, 'He wants to be a girl, so can you lop his todger off?' Because what’s going to happen five years later when he’s decided that being a man isn’t so bad after all and he’s in the showers at the rugby club?"

Clarkson said he turned to the BBC for "guidance," in an attempt to "calm down a bit," but didn't like what he heard.

"I was told there are 650,000 people living in Britain today with some kind of gender ‘issue.' Well, I just sat there shaking my head, because the simple fact is: there aren’t."

Interestingly, Clarkson ended his tirade by taking the time to think about what it would be like if there is even just "one person out there who is a woman living in a man’s body, or the other way around."

"I started to imagine what life might be like for the poor soul," he wrote. "It would be dreadful. Absolutely awful. And all they seem to want to make their life better is a third gender option box on official documents. That’s not really the end of the world for everyone else, is it?"

h/t: Pink News

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