Stephen Fry, who recently said Stonewall’s approach to trans issues is ‘nonsensical’, will now be known as Sir Stephen after being recognised in the New Year’s Honours list.
The comedy actor and writer, who will be recognised for services to mental health awareness, the environment and charity, said he was “startled and enchanted” after receiving the letter informing him of his knighthood out of the blue.
He comments: “When you are recognised it does make you feel a bit ‘crikey’, but I think the most emotional thing is that when I think of my childhood, and my dreadful unhappiness and misery and stupidity, and everything that led to so many failures as a child.
“And for my parents, really, what a disaster. I mean every time the phone rang, they thought, ‘Oh, God, what has Stephen done now’. It was a sort of joke in the family.”
Stephen Fry was criticised in December after he called Stonewall’s approach to trans issues ‘nonsensical’.
The 67-year-old author and broadcaster had been a vocal supporter of the LGBTQ+ rights charity’s Some People Are Gay, Get Over It campaign, which was launched to secure equal rights for gay people.
When being interviewed by Triggernometry podcast host Konstantin Kisin, Fry was asked a “confrontational” question sent in by former Stonewall employee Levi Pay, who is gay, probing why Fry continues to support the charity.
The question asked by Pay was: “I’m a gay man who used to work for Stonewall. I watched as the organisation which I used to love shifted to arguing for the medicalisation of gender non-conforming children. It now portrays lesbians who wish to exclude male people from their dating pool as being equivalent to racists. How can Stephen Fry in all conscience continue to support them?”
“Do I? I am not sure I do support them?”, Fry replied.
“I have no interest in supporting this current wave of nonsensical [policies], I agree completely with Levi Pay.”
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