Trans TV star India Willoughby hits back at ‘lynch mob’ after facing hostile Question Time audience
metro.co.uksupports HTML5 videoTrans television star India Willoughby has hit back at the Question Time studio audience after her appearance on Thursday night’s programme.The former Loose Women panellist, 57, was among the guests on Question Time hosted by Fiona Bruce alongside Jenny Gilruth, John Lamont, Ian Murray and journalist Ella Whelan.During the debate surrounding trans women prisoners entering female prisons, one audience member received a huge round of applause when she insisted ‘you can’t change sex’ and that trans women who have lived as women for years and undergone gender reassignment surgery should not be allowed in female single-sex spaces.‘We don’t allow men into female spaces for good reason,’ she said. ‘There are good men and there are predatory men, we should not allow trans into female spaces.
There are good trans and there are predatory trans and that’s a fact.‘Women and children have to be safe.’ Willoughby compared the remarks to conversations ‘in the 1970s about black people’.
Scottish Conservative Party MP Lamont also received claps for saying the government didn’t feel as though ‘necessary safeguards’ were in place to block trans women from entering female prisons.Whelan got actual cheers when she said: ‘It’s remarkable to me that politicians in Scotland and England have given up the belief in reality that sex is real and that it is irrefutable.’After the episode aired on Thursday night, Willoughby tweeted: ‘Lynch mob.
Felt like I was at a hanging! Mine! Trans people are amazing (I know – biased) and it was disappointing to feel that mood in the air.
