Janey Godley supported the trans community until her dying breath (Picture: REX/Getty)
On hearing the news Janey Godley has died at the age of 63, the trans community weeps.
The Scottish comedian – who found fame from her infamous Trump poster and parodies of Nicola Sturgeon’s Coronavirus news briefings during the pandemic – revealed she had ovarian cancer in November 2021.
Last month, Godley announced she was receiving end-of-life care.
Now, has agent has confirmed her death, confirming this afternoon: ‘Janey died peacefully in the wonderful Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice in Glasgow, surrounded by her loved ones. She will be hugely missed by her family, friends and her many fans.’
Godley went through a lot in her 63 years. But even as she lived with terminal cancer, the Scottish comedian fought for a marginalised community she was not even part of until her dying breath.
Last month after sharing that she was receiving end-of-life care, Godley took to social media defiantly and wrote: ‘It doesn’t matter how many transphobes attack me in the last stages of my life, I won’t become them. I won’t think how they think. It’s a waste of their time banging on at me – I’m not going to be one of them.’
While many on their deathbed would perhaps use this time to wallow, or at least focus on themselves for their last weeks, Godley continued: ‘Sending my trans people pals all my love today.’
She took trolls down online and vowed to never back down (Picture: John Clark/BAFTA via Getty Images)
Even when Janey announced she was receiving end-of-life care, she continued to speak out against trans discrimination (Picture: janeygodley/Instagram)
Her selflessness in fighting for the trans community wasn’t due to a lack of her own personal battles. On the contrary: she had many.
The foul-mouthed, beloved comedian grew up in poverty in the east end of Glasgow and was sexually abused by her uncle David Percy for several years as a child.
Aged 21, in 1982 Godley’s mother Anne died after drowning in the River Clyde. She was found ‘face down’ after going missing for four days, and Godley was convinced her mother was murdered by a boyfriend.
Godley found out her mother had died on the location radio station, in between football scores, and the police hadn’t bothered informing her.
No charges were ever brought against Godley’s mother’s violent boyfriend and he died alone in 1995, just like her uncle.
‘Her ex-convict boyfriend took her there a walk and had been in court that year for trying to kill her but she defended him,’ Godley explained in a Medium article.
‘He walked free from her death only to go on and kill again and was finally found dead alone in a filthy flat in 1995.’
The comedian used her platform to champion the trans community when many women in her generation did the opposite (Picture: Carlo Paloni/BAFTA via Getty Images)
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Source:: Metro
