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Amanda Abbington is under fire again after saying she was a supporter of the ‘legitimate trans community’.
Last week the Sherlock actress, 49, was the first contestant announced as part of the line-up for the upcoming season of Strictly Come Dancing, however soon after many people threatened to boycott the series after old tweets of hers emerged.
Earlier this year, Amanda reacted to footage from a Caba Baba Rave, a baby sensory and cabaret show for parents and their babies aged 0-2 years old.
Following a video of the rave showing a person dancing in boots and a bondage harness, the actress tweeted that the show was ‘not for babies’ and said that ‘if you think it is, there is something fundamentally wrong with you’.
Over the past week she’s repeatedly denied she is transphobic in response to the backlash, however now India Willoughby has weighed in.
Sharing a social media post written by Amanda, India, 57, wrote: ‘Amanda Abbington basically saying she’s transphobic because she’s looking-out for trans people – “who need protection”.
In the exchange, Amanda had been responding to a comment on her recent Instagram video in which she insisted she was not transphobic.
During part of the video, Amanda had said she was a supporter of the ‘legitimate trans community’.
When asked to explain that comment by a journalist, she responded that she ‘merely meant that I worry when I see men suddenly identifying as women when they think it’s going to benefit them’.
‘Predatory men. Not all but there have been some cases where this has happened and it doesn’t help the trans community because everyone then focuses on those people and it diminishes and endangers the trans community,’ she continued.
‘The trans community need protection. Women in refuges and prisons need protection. Predatory men will do anything. That’s all I mean. It’s such a delicate and complicated situation.
‘We just need to be aware of people who will take advantage of a community wishing to be understood and accepted.’
In her Instagram video this week, Amanda had doubled down on her past posts, but said they had nothing to do with the trans community.
‘My tweet back in March was regarding a 12-year-old who was doing it in front of adults, and it just upset me because I saw a kid, a little kid, a 12-year-old, doing something very over-sexualised and I didn’t think it was right,’ she said.
‘Personally speaking, I don’t think 12-year-olds should be performing in drag shows in overtly sexual ways because they’re 12 and they need a childhood, it’s nice for kids to have a childhood and grow up and find that out when they’re old enough to really understand it.’
She added that her tweet had not been ‘associated with the trans community, nor would I associate that with the trans community, because I think they’re two separate things’.
Going on to describe drag queens as ‘hilarious and brilliant and an art form’, Amanda added that she thought there was ‘absolutely a place’ for them in the entertainment industry.
(Link: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertain...1&cvid=98774d4334d842e2b0d3b8889d8178d9&ei=41)
Amanda Abbington is under fire again after saying she was a supporter of the ‘legitimate trans community’.
Last week the Sherlock actress, 49, was the first contestant announced as part of the line-up for the upcoming season of Strictly Come Dancing, however soon after many people threatened to boycott the series after old tweets of hers emerged.
Earlier this year, Amanda reacted to footage from a Caba Baba Rave, a baby sensory and cabaret show for parents and their babies aged 0-2 years old.
Following a video of the rave showing a person dancing in boots and a bondage harness, the actress tweeted that the show was ‘not for babies’ and said that ‘if you think it is, there is something fundamentally wrong with you’.
Over the past week she’s repeatedly denied she is transphobic in response to the backlash, however now India Willoughby has weighed in.
Sharing a social media post written by Amanda, India, 57, wrote: ‘Amanda Abbington basically saying she’s transphobic because she’s looking-out for trans people – “who need protection”.
In the exchange, Amanda had been responding to a comment on her recent Instagram video in which she insisted she was not transphobic.
During part of the video, Amanda had said she was a supporter of the ‘legitimate trans community’.
When asked to explain that comment by a journalist, she responded that she ‘merely meant that I worry when I see men suddenly identifying as women when they think it’s going to benefit them’.
‘Predatory men. Not all but there have been some cases where this has happened and it doesn’t help the trans community because everyone then focuses on those people and it diminishes and endangers the trans community,’ she continued.
‘The trans community need protection. Women in refuges and prisons need protection. Predatory men will do anything. That’s all I mean. It’s such a delicate and complicated situation.
‘We just need to be aware of people who will take advantage of a community wishing to be understood and accepted.’
In her Instagram video this week, Amanda had doubled down on her past posts, but said they had nothing to do with the trans community.
‘My tweet back in March was regarding a 12-year-old who was doing it in front of adults, and it just upset me because I saw a kid, a little kid, a 12-year-old, doing something very over-sexualised and I didn’t think it was right,’ she said.
‘Personally speaking, I don’t think 12-year-olds should be performing in drag shows in overtly sexual ways because they’re 12 and they need a childhood, it’s nice for kids to have a childhood and grow up and find that out when they’re old enough to really understand it.’
She added that her tweet had not been ‘associated with the trans community, nor would I associate that with the trans community, because I think they’re two separate things’.
Going on to describe drag queens as ‘hilarious and brilliant and an art form’, Amanda added that she thought there was ‘absolutely a place’ for them in the entertainment industry.
(Link: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertain...1&cvid=98774d4334d842e2b0d3b8889d8178d9&ei=41)
