Good thing the Venn diagram overlap for Doctor Who fans and Kid Rock fans is virtually non-existent. Those complaints should be taken as seriously as someone shooting at cans of Bud Light because they got their fee-fees hurt. 

This describes my opinion shift over the last few years. ✋🏻

There are also people who worry Disney has too much input in the new stuff. But to paraphrase RTD, he got away with namedropping Mavic Chen, so they aren’t holding him back in any way.

Who has always played fast and lose with exact timelines

Terfs love to pretend that they’re the majority, that they speak for all women, and so forth. This news is a nice reminder that they’re a tiny, tiny fringe group. And that’s an important thing for people to know.

The fact they didn’t get a lot of complaints is no one is watching anymore.

This => “I hope the bullies and bigots realize that their hatred and vitriol have backfired terribly on them and pushed many of us who used to be more neutral or apathetic about LGBTQ issues into wholehearted supporters of the community.” is soo true.

These morons have been blind to the show since it’s inception. Who has ALWAYS been progressive and looking forward - WTF show were you MAGA morons watching?

I’d also find it unlikely that a teenager would have fully transitioned given how extremely hard it is for adults to transition in the UK.

The BBC commented on it. It’s not like io9 created the story.

People being whinypants about the exact timeline and transitioning children, blah etc etc - Who has always played fast and lose with exact timelines and a lot else, get over it. The maudlin handwringing “but what about the children...?” excuse is always just a cover for exclusionist attitudes. There are more trans…

They Full well knew what they were doing.

Or it’s fun to mock the tiny number of BBC bigots obsessed with a teen girl’s naughty bits, refreshing to see that they’re losing, and amusing to see the BBC actually not be terrible for once after years of fomenting anti-trans bigotry in their reporting.

The even point it out in the episode its been 15 years since Donna had her problem. Ok fine but Donna had to pull herself together find a man get married and have a child . That would take at least a year or two.

I hope the bullies and bigots realize that their hatred and vitriol have backfired terribly on them and pushed many of us who used to be more neutral or apathetic about LGBTQ issues into wholehearted supporters of the community.

People say the same thing about pretty much anything other than offset smokers, but any of these will literally get you like 98% of the way there.

They could have just sent the message: #YourBigotryisYourProblemNotOurs. That’s what I would have done anyway. #BeAnAlly

This piece fails to convey the sheer amount of petty involved in the response. The BBC analyzed like thousands of hours of Programming for bias just to come to the conclusion that the comments were horse shit. I appreciate the dedication.

It’s always darkly amusing when transphobic bigots let the mask drop. They try so hard to pretend that they’re just concerned about the children and making sure that no one is rushing into transitioning but at the end of the day what they really want is for trans people to be erased from public life, one way or…

Kitchen?  I think this is the kind of appliance one keeps bedside, right?  RIGHT?