SuperNature premiered on the streaming service today and it’s drawing fierce backlash for its profoundly and graphically transphobic “jokes.”A few minutes into the special, Gervais launches into his first salvo against trans women. “Oh, women!” he begins. “Not all women, I mean the old-fashioned ones.
The old-fashioned women, the ones with wombs. Those fucking dinosaurs. I love the new women. They’re great, aren’t they? The new ones we’ve been seeing lately.
The ones with beards and cocks. They’re as good as gold, I love them. And now the old-fashioned ones say, ‘Oh, they want to use our toilets.’ ‘Why shouldn’t they use your toilets?’ ‘For ladies!’ ‘They are ladies — look at their pronouns!
What about this person isn’t a lady?’ ‘Well, his penis.’ ‘Her penis, you fucking bigot!’ ‘What if he rapes me?’ ‘What if she rapes you, you fucking TERF [trans-exclusionary radical feminist] whore?’”Gervais then pivots to his standard talking point, which paints himself as the victim of cancel culture while again commenting on trans women’s genitals. “You can’t predict what will be offensive in the future,” he says. “You don’t know who the dominant mob will be.