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Former “Top Gear” host Jeremy Clarkson has attacked the trans community for being “poisoned lunatics” in his column in The Sunday Times.

According to Pink News, Clarkson began his rant by saying he didn’t understand the “plight” of the trans community and that when he first heard about transgender people the thought made him roll his eyes.

“As far as I was concerned, men who want to be women were only really to be found on the internet or in the seedier bits of Bangkok,” Clarkson says.” They were called lady boys, and in my mind they were nothing more than the punchline in a stag night anecdote.”

Clarkson continues that he doesn’t believe the parents should be “indulging the whims” of their trans children.

“I wanted to seek them out and explain that they were free to live a lunatic life, they must not – and I was going to emphasise this with spittle -, be allowed to poison the mind of a child.” Clarkson says.

“It’s what kids do: dream impossible dreams,” Clarkson continues. “You don’t actually take them seriously. You don’t take them to a hospital when they’re 10 and say, “He wants to be a girl, so can you lop his todger off?”

Clarkson finished his rant about trans children by saying they could change their minds later in life.

“Because what’s going to happen five years later when he’s decided that being a man isn’t so bad after all and he’s in the showers at the rugby club?” Clarkson says.

Clarkson was fired from the BBC last year after allegedly punching a producer.