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Tuesday May 05 2009
Welsh police in Dyfed Powys have hired a transsexual to help their officers deal with the scourge of "transgender phobic violence".
Mark Douglas, a 49-year-old father of two, decided to become a laydee 18 months ago and now insists on being called Michelle. So we'll call him Mark.
He meets officers on a regular basis to explain the joy of wearing women's knickers and make up and all the horrid things that nasty people might say to him.
Or her, depending on where you stand on the issue of blokes who think they're women.
According to Mark: "I get a real buzz from doing the course. I'm in my comfort zone."
So, has there been a worrying rise in tranny-bashing in the area? Actually, as the cops admit: "While there is no recorded hate crime in the area, that isn't to say it doesn't exist."
Um, actually, it kinda does, when you think about it.
What next, they're going to set up a unit investigating leprechauns, because "while there is no record of them in the area, that is not to say they don't exist"?
WHAT A CHARMER
Jamie Foxx really excelled himself when he suggested that 16-year-old Miley Cyrus should make a sex tape and start doing drugs.
It was all rather tawdry but he at least had the decency to come out later and apologise.
But the story gets even more interesting.
Because it has emerged that during the radio show where he made the comments, his fellow guest referred to the Hannah Montana star as "that white bitch".
Now, is this the same Jamie Foxx who claimed he was going to hunt down and batter Michael Richards after the Seinfeld actor went completely off the deep end during his stand up show and started coming out with racist drivel?
Oh wait, I forgot -- only white people can be racist.
A NUTTER WRITES ...
The whole debate between believers and atheists is getting as tedious as it is pointless.
But serial letter-writer Eric Conway, who is an ardent supporter of Dermot Ahern's Blasphemy bill, a piece of legislation as disgusting and intellectually bankrupt as the Minister himself, has come up with an interesting new concept -- he wants atheism to be classed as a thought crime.
Yup, pointing out that there's no evidence for a supernatural being should be a thought crime, but believing that a glass of red wine literally becomes the blood of a 2,000-year-old dead Jew, is perfectly sane?
Nice logic.
- Ian O'Doherty
