In 2018, Humphries faced backlash for making comments considered to be transphobic.[62] The comments included referring to gender affirmation surgery as "self-mutilation" and transgender identity as a whole as a "fashion—how many different kinds of lavatory can you have?" The comments prompted the Barry Award, a comedy festival award in Melbourne named after the comedian, to be renamed the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award the next year.[63]
Beyond tone deaf if one can't tell the difference between a trans "man" and a man in drag. I recommend the Movie Ed Wood, or Tootsie, or Some Like it Hot...