<p>Critics swarmed Twitter following an announcement from <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/youd-think-somebody-would-have-read-macbeth-cruz-educates-nbc-news-wapo-reporters-who-mock-him-over-shakespeare-quote/">Shakespeare&#8217;s</a> Globe Theatre about a new play — &#8220;I, Joan&#8221; — that portrays the legendary martyr <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/new-play-depicts-joan-of-arc-as-gender-queer-with-they-them-pronouns/">Joan of Arc</a> as &#8220;a legendary leader, who in this production, uses the pronouns &#8216;they/them.'&#8221;</p>
<p>The Globe shared a <a href="https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/identity-in-i-joan">statement</a> &#8220;on identity&#8221; from the theatre&#8217;s artistic director Michelle Terry, who argued that Joan of Arc had been presented in that way in the past. &#8220;Regardless, theatres do not deal with ‘historical reality’. Theatres produce plays, and in plays, anything can be possible,&#8221; she added.</p>
<p>Terry went on to say that even <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/new-round-of-schools-ditching-shakespeare-for-promoting-misogyny-racism-and-more/">William Shakespeare</a> had not written &#8220;historically accurate plays,&#8221; claiming that the role of the theatre was to push boundaries and ask &#8220;imagine if? &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;History has provided countless and wonderful examples of Joan portrayed as a woman. This production is simply offering the possibility of another point of view,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>But as the statement made its way to social media, a number on Twitter saw the move instead as a pro-trans statement that — whether intentionally so or not — diminished the martyr&#8217;s role as a female icon.</p>
<p>&#8220;Just one more step for the misogynistic far left in their attempt to erase women from history…&#8221; @teresadg0 <a href="https://twitter.com/teresadg0/status/1558696139385458688">tweeted</a>.</p>
<p>Writer and broadcaster Paul Embery <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulEmbery/status/1558228665124675588">added</a>, &#8220;Joan of Arc. One of the most famous and influential women of all time. Reduced to this.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Joan was a woman. She was born female. She died a woman. Everything she accomplished, she did as a woman. Stop transing the dead. — A Woman,&#8221; Gaye Chapman <a href="https://twitter.com/my_real_name/status/1558215845343424513">remarked</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;The West is a theocracy but its creed is far more idiotic and based in fantasy than the most primitive religion,&#8221; James Kirkpatrick (@VDAREJamesK) <a href="https://twitter.com/VDAREJamesK/status/1558208237308186624">tweeted</a>. &#8220;Some savage, ignorant tribe on an island that kills and eats outsiders has a higher level of civilizational achievement than the contemporary West.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The English burned Joan while she was alive and now they’re burning her again when she’s dead. What a gross production,&#8221; author Ryan James Girdusky <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1558207213226921986">commented</a>.</p>
<p>The Daily Wire&#8217;s own Matt Walsh — whose recent documentary explored the very basic question &#8220;What Is a Woman?&#8221; and addressed societies attempts to erase women in order to appease radical gender ideologues — had some thoughts on the issue as well.</p>
<p>&#8220;The fact that Joan of Arc was an actual woman is the whole point and what makes her story heroic and significant. But then again, shoe-horning &#8216;non-binary&#8217; characters into historical stories will always be clumsy and stupid because &#8216;non-binary&#8217; didn&#8217;t exist until 14 seconds ago,&#8221; he said.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The fact that Joan of Arc was an actual woman is the whole point and what makes her story heroic and significant. But then again, shoe-horning &quot;non-binary&quot; characters into historical stories will always be clumsy and stupid because &quot;non-binary&quot; didn&#39;t exist until 14 seconds ago. <a href="https://t.co/6HOpZuxBQL">https://t.co/6HOpZuxBQL</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1558156431223832578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Political commentator and self-described &#8220;Brexiteer&#8221; Patrick O&#8217;Flynn also noted that the Globe was operating at least in part at taxpayer expense — and argued that tax money shouldn&#8217;t fund productions that made political statements.</p>
<p>&#8220;This place got a £3m taxpayer grant in 2020. I&#8217;m sick of subsidising hard left ID politics masquerading as theatre. By all means go on with the show, but not in the maintained sector please,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/oflynnsocial/status/1558062664366149633">said</a>.</p>

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