David Tennant: Pompous, Rude Ignoramus

British actor David Tennant showed his pompous, rude ignoramus side recently when he, in accepting an award from an “LGBT” organization, told black female Conservative government minister Kemi Badenoch to “shut up.” That was right after he said he looked to the day that Badenoch ceased to exist. Nice.

Badenoch’s offense is believing that women and children are endangered by the so-called “trans” ideology movement. Her claim hardly seems far-fetched. Allowing men who pretend to be women into real women’s bathrooms, changing rooms, shelters, and prisons is obviously dangerous for those women. And sterilizing and mutilating confused children, most of whom are same-sex-attracted (or autistic or both), is an obvious crime against humanity. It’s also conversion therapy by another name.

So between Tennant and Badenoch, it’s clear who should do the shutting up.

Tennant said on that awards night, "Everyone has the right to be who they want to be and live their life how they want to live it as long as they're not hurting anyone else…." He’s only half-right. Indeed, everyone should be free to live as he or she wants (that exhausts the third-person singular pronouns except for it) as long as he or she respects everyone else’s rights.

But there can be no right to “be who they want to be” because no one can be whoever they want to be. You cannot be a visitor from the future; he cannot be an extraterrestrial; and I cannot be a world-renowned concert pianist or all-star baseball player. So no rights claim is relevant. By the same token, a man cannot be a woman, and a woman cannot be a man. Reality sets limits, no matter how much someone resents it. You have the right to pretend to be all sorts of things, and other people have the right not to pretend along with you—even if it hurts your feelings. But to repeat, none of us can be anything. Full stop.

Is Tennant so blinded by compassion that he cannot see the most basic facts? Or is he engaging in fashionable virtue signaling? His crude dismissal of an accomplished woman (with whom I probably would have many disagreements) has not been well-received in Britain. That’s good.