Hold on to your dinner its Phillip Grimmer

[Millie]

Yeah, as everyone knows, it takes quite a lot before I start to think that this kind of thing is wrong, and to be honest, he did his little Kylie thing (badly) last year, the show has joke acts and it's part of the format. However, it would have been nice for them to have a trans person who was there for genuine talent, just so that it wasn't all about 'lets laugh at the cr*ppy talentless cross dresser' but instead they have taken the easy way out. It really can't just be Dana International who is able to sing or dance a bit?

I do still think that we can get a bit too over sensitive about this kind of thing though, as I have said, I totally loved Stavros Flatley last year and absolutely laughed my behind off at their act, should I as an Irish person been protesting against them because it represented badly on the Irish community and took the mickey out of an important part of our culture?

Course not! (besides they were just the most lovable guys!)

[Ice Maiden]

it is trans humiliation by the backdoor

as by allowing this knowing it hasnt a hope in a cats chance in hell of getting through its just a way to laugh at a man in a frock (or not one in his case) with the excuse well we allowed someone like this through what are you moaning about? Its manipulative and for some distressing.

Imagine a trans person breaking the news that they want to be a woman to their parents and then that comes on - just terrible.