And, needless to say, still empowers them.

David Walliams, Ricky Gervais and Jonathan Ross have all publicly supported JK Rowling when she went public about her bigoted views on trans people. Gervais regularly ridicules trans people in his standup routine. Jonathan Ross gave a quote to Graham Linehan to put on the cover of his memoir, Tough Crowd.

Powerful people in the media protect these men because it doesn’t think they’ve done anything wrong.