What a total douchebag… His claims of cisgender victimhood are as stupid and pathetic as any rich white right wing asshole.
The CNN host claims a trans woman was born “a boy” — then digs himself so much deeper on Twitter
Daniel D’Addario
Wednesday, Feb 5, 2014
Piers Morgan, the CNN host, aired an interview with trans author Janet Mock last night. During the interview, CNN aired a chyron claiming Mock “was a boy until age 18″ and Morgan asked probing questions that implied Mock is somehow lying about her gender identity to people she has dated.
Mixed in a feed full of Twitter spats with his followers over English cricket, Morgan found time to draw a false equivalence between being getting tweeted at and being disrespected for one’s identity, to tell a women’s group to “pipe down,” and strangely to tell Mock that he’d “deal with” her.
UPDATE: Morgan most recently has claimed to have been a “victim of cisphobia” — a term he may well have coined to describe the apparent prejudice of trans people, a historically oppressed group, against cis people, a historically privileged one.
Continue reading at: http://www.salon.com/2014/02/05/piers_morgans_sad_strange_twitter_defense_of_his_ignorance_and_janet_mocks_perfect_reply/
