I have been a massive Stephen Fry fan since his ‘A bit of Fry and Laurie’ and ‘Jeeves and Wooster’ days, and I always admired his rationalist empiricism. Well one interview has chucked all that out of the window, once and for all. He’s like the pathetic cunts who parrot “we all know that Islam is a religion of peace” after some children have been blown up.

Fry told podcast Beeb Watch that Ms Rowling is still a 'friend', but added: 'I have trans friends and intersex friends who are deeply upset by her.'

He was then asked by host Roger Bolton: 'Are you actually saying both [sides] should stop fighting?'

Fry said: 'I would love to see that. But it isn't possible if each side looks on the other as an enemy, and the trans people just shout 'TERF' and the feminists just [...] seem to undermine the dignity and rights of the trans community.'

Fry added: 'I don't think there's a winner. I know that JK Rowling doesn't want to see trans people bullied, alienated, shut out of society, made to feel ashamed, guilty, laughed at, all those things.

'But I also know [...] that there are people who believe that safe feminine spaces and the idea of the difference between sex and gender is very important and that they [...] repudiate, with all their strength, the kind of [gender theorist] Judith Butler idea of created gender and so on. And it's not an argument I want to get involved in, because it's upsetting to both sides.

'I would...wish them both to retreat, and to consider that it is possible for trans people to live full, accepted lives, according to their terms, in society, and for women to have all the rights and dignities that they demand.'

He added: 'The reason I felt very, very much as though I needed to say something when I did was because, particularly since finishing Potter, I've met so many queer and trans kids and young people who had a huge amount of identification with Potter on that.

'And so seeing them hurt on that day I was like, I wanted them to know that not everybody in the franchise felt that way. And that was really important.'

Meanwhile Voldemort actor Ralph Fiennes told the New York Times last month that Rowling's treatment by some online has been 'appalling'.

He said: 'The verbal abuse directed at her is disgusting, it’s appalling. I mean, I can understand a viewpoint that might be angry at what she says about women.

Fry, often touted as such a towering intellect, has failed to realise the incompatibility of the two positions and the religious nature of gender identity. He also has no understanding of the socially contagious nature of transgenderism in young women, nor the fetishistic nature of it in middle-ages men and the homophobic nature of it in young boys.

/#NotMyJeeves.