Jeremy Clarkson has greatly offended the trans community in his latest column for The Sunday Times. He begins by claiming left-wing activists “have decided that we must now all turn our attention to the plight of people who want to change their name from Stan to Loretta”. “As far as I was concerned, men who want to be women were only really to be found on the Internet or in the seedier bits of Bangkok,” he writes. “They were called lady boys, and in my mind they were nothing more than the punchline in a stag night anecdote.” He continues to suggest that the parents of trans children merely indulge their “whim”. “I wanted to seek them out and explain that they were free to live a lunatic life, they must not – and I was going to emphasise this with spittle -, be allowed to poison the mind of a child.” “It’s what kids do: dream impossible dreams,” he says. “You don’t actually take them seriously. You don’t take them to a hospital when they’re 10 and say, “He wants to be a girl, so can you lop his todger off?” “Because what’s going to happen five years later when he’s decided that being a man isn’t so bad after all and he’s in the showers at the rugby club?” Clarkson was fired by the BBC last year for a bust-up with a producer. We’re hoping The Sunday Times follow suit.