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Good Morning Britain Host Piers Morgan Doubles Down on Anti Trans Rhetoric

Phaylen Fairchild
6 min readOct 17, 2019

Good Morning Britain has committed to platform the discrimination espoused by the controversial television host.

Piers Morgan has spent the last few years as host of Good Morning Britain degrading, humiliating and mocking transgender people. The 54 year old ex-news editor of The Daily Mirror who had been fired from his position in 2004 for publishing photo-shopped images of British Soldiers abusing an Iraqi prisoner. The act was said to have threatened the reputation and public safety of those serving in the military for the sake of selling papers.

After a four year stint as a caustic judge on Britain’s Got Talent, he took a seat next to co-host Susanna Reid. Routinely, he has placed transgender women and children in his cross-hairs, telling guests like Munroe Bergdorf that “Gender fluid people are a farce.” He also claimed that there was a “Creeping war on the words ‘Men’ and ‘Women’.He accused parents who are raising non-binary children of influencing them to identify as non-binary for attention saying, “This is being driven by adults in the household, not by the children.He has attacked transgender athletes who participate in professional sports suggesting that Men intend to self ID as women to dominate women’s sports, enrich themselves, then return to assuming a male identity once…

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Phaylen Fairchild
Phaylen Fairchild

Written by Phaylen Fairchild

Actor, Filmmaker, LGBTQ+ & Women’s Rights Activist All work copyright phaylens@gmail.com

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