(LifeSiteNews) — If the transgender movement finally falls under the weight of lawsuits, Supreme Court decisions, de-transitioner testimonies, and journalistic investigations (better late than never), the last battalions on the barricades will be the Hollywood elites.
This should be no surprise. For the past decade, Hollywood has sunk its star power and vast financial resources into funding LGBT propaganda. Worse, many celebrities have facilitated the “transitioning” of their own children – including, in some cases, so-called “sex changes.” To admit that they are wrong would be to confess complicity in the greatest medical scandal of the 21st century.
Thus, celebrities tend to treat dissidents harshly. For a fellow celebrity to condemn transgenderism is, for many, a profound personal attack. Those who step out of line tend to be comedians who can professionally afford to do so, such as Dave Chappelle, Bill Maher, and Ricky Gervais. Gervais, who is famously atheist, has repeatedly taken aim at the transgender movement in his stand-up specials.
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To the LGBT movement’s great dismay, Gervais remains one of the most popular comedians in the world. Condemnations from a laundry list of influential and powerful LGBT groups failed to herd Gervais back into line, and he appears to enjoy the ongoing controversy immensely.
Indeed, when Gervais was asked recently by the BBC if he had “doubled down” on his anti-trans jokes, Gervais replied: “That’s probably true, but that’s because I think I’m right … I have a right to talk about this those things. And there are jokes I certainly stand by. I can’t look back and say, ‘Oh, sorry about that, I said that when I was only 50.’”
On January 11, comedian Wanda Sykes, a prominent LGBT activist who defended the trans movement in her 2023 Netflix special and raked in accolades from LGBT groups, decided to publicly correct Gervais at the Hollywood Awards. Gervais had been nominated for a Golden Globe in the category of “Best Standup Comedy on Television,” but declined to attend the event. When Gervais won, Sykes accepted it on his behalf, but started with a pointed joke, telling the audience: “He would like to thank God and the trans community.”
The audience, of course, laughed obediently. Gervais’s only response was to make a series of X posts boasting about this win. The fact that he won the award for a standup special in which he once again mocked transgenderism (although not as savagely as in his previous show) must have been grating for the LGBT movement. Gervais is one of the figures who broke the taboo on mocking the transgender movement, and they have not forgiven him for it. The fact that he doesn’t care is salt in the wound.
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There are signs that the transgender movement’s hold on the elites is breaking. Last fall, Keira Knightley laughed when an interviewer asked her about a transgender boycott of JK Rowling’s work. During a recent podcast interview, Sylvester Stallone’s wife Jennifer Flavin openly mused about the dangers of transgenderism and opined on why so many celebrities have children that identify as trans. Once the transgender movement’s threats of cancelation and dire professional consequences began to lose their potency, their power began to recede.
And for that, ironically, we have a handful of atheist comedians to thank.
