And Now for Something Completely Different

Not sure how to start here, but seems that the fight between trans people and J.K. Rowling was extended to John Cleese.

Initially because somehow he defended J.K. Rowling and more recently because he tweeted something about not being interested in trans people and there was an outrage after his comments. Funny enough John Cleese and the Monty Python predicted all this in the movie "The Life of Brian" on a sketch at the circus when Terry Jones claims he wants to be a woman and have the right to have babies.

I am not sure how not being interested in some group is offensive, I guess John Cleese is not interested in me either and I couldn't care less, mainly because I am pretty sure I am not interesting as an individual to get his attention.

Then we come to this point where we are lectured on how to deal with the so call "transphobic" people and by "transphobic" please read "anyone who is not particularly interested in the transgender movement". "Phobia" used to mean "fear" or "repulse" of anything, which is not the case if you just don't bother with the subject. For example someone who has an unjustified fear of spiders is said to be arachnophobic. I, who don't really care about spiders and can live with them in my house, am just someone "who's not particular affected by or interested in spiders". And that's exactly where J.K. Rowling and John Cleese are, they tolerate spiders but don't give them particular importance just because they are spiders.

Do we really need to be educated on how to deal with people that is not committed to promote "transgenderism" (if the word exists)?

Do we need to be educated to deal with people with different ideas and opinions, or with different ideas and opinions than the what so called guardians of the right thinking? I think we do. We need to learn to accept and tolerate them, even if we can't understand them due to our own limitations and I strongly believe that some elements from the trans community need to be educated in this respect. Otherwise we will go back at burning books and, why not, burning witches.