I find it frustrating that the left has been characterized as more prone to scolding when the right’s entire culture is built on an openly insidious kind of scolding

It shouldn't need to be said, but if we apportioned human rights to a demographic based on the number of them who have done mass shootings, all straight white men should be in prison, but, of course, straight white men are never judged in that way, only minorities are. It's ridiculous.

Michael once agreed with me that Magdalen Berns would be legally regarded as a transphobe, because he didn't know that Berns had been namechecked by Rowling as a major influence on her thinking on trans people. He wrote a thread defaming me while trying to backtrack, which he subsequently deleted.

Hi @hannahsbee.bsky.social, There will come a time when you will have to face up to what you've done because of this era of anti-trans hysteria. Per an FOI request, Pogust Goodhead have ZERO cases against Tavistock, when 1000 were claimed three years ago. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/health/...

Wait, and you'll see he'll get invited back after lying like this.

This was a particularly excoriating judgement.

Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.

In this fight, can you guess whose side JK Rowling would be on?

You bought into a movement that advocated the dehumanisation and subjugation of trans people, where Magdalen Berns, a woman who called them "sick, pathetic fucks" was lauded by every GC activist as a literal folk hero, but *now* you're sick of the extremism? Get the fuck out of here with that shit.

As someone who works in construction, what I find extra mad about those lads who climb buildings without ropes is that they put so much faith in people who work in construction.

Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!

Imagine respecting someone who sees murder "otherwise." Imagine being that fucking craven. These people have lost their minds and morality in order to justify how they have ended up being "friends" with monsters.

Arty Morty is Graham Linehan's former Youtube co-host, and on one of their final shows he said: "I've lost all of my friends, I'm utterly lonely...it's so hard to find any kind of work because I'm so tainted just having normal views." "Physician, heal thyself," doesn't quite cover it, does it?

There's been two Irish "gay" orgs against trans rights. One of them is a friend group of 3 people. The other was a lesbian couple who failed to get "LGB Alliance Ireland" up and running. There is no "enormous pushback" against trans rights from the gay community. There are some cranks. That's it.

You look at "gender critical" activist threads like this and you wonder when the realisation will hit that they are transphobes in a transphobic hate movement so OF COURSE their allies are fascists. It's the blindingly simple answer, and it always has been.

Graham Linehan proves the point that trans liberationists have been saying from the start: If you'll permit dehumanising and stripping the rights of trans people, you will dehumanise and strip the rights of anyone on a long enough timeline.

This is exactly the same playbook Graham Linehan uses against trans people, where defending trans rights is cast as defending "rape" and "paedophilia." He uses "rape" and "paedophilia" as punchlines, and, therefore, all of his hate speech and advocation for violence against his enemies is justified.

Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.

I think for a lot of them they just decided that everyone they disagree with is insincere so they give up on being sincere themselves

Almost every prominent 'gender critical' is justifying the execution of people in the street, saying they 'provoked' ICE. For years, they categorised trans protests of their meetings (like making noise and banging on windows) as the worst crimes imaginable. These people are moral vacuums.

Important to note that the Green Party took this seat off REFORM. The old rightwing parties, Lab & Tory cannot challenge the fascists by being Fascism-lite.

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

we hear so much about trans people from the British press yet so rarely hear from them - I'm really pleased this piece was commissioned, and will also be in the physical paper: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

I have really come around to this way of thinking in the last 8 years. There is a cruelty and vindictiveness to some people that is not diminished by the carrot approach. In fact, they see the carrot as a sign of weakness.

One more, I am begging English commentators and journalists to remember what the UK did in Northern Ireland. Of course what's occurring in the US could happen in the UK! It already fecking did.

Isn't it mad how most of the "gender critical" activists are sociopaths in many other areas and issues? There are a few who aren't, and they must have some DARK nights of the soul, wondering what the fuck they are doing in a movement surrounded by so many people who don't give a fuck about others.

Over 90% of trans and non-binary people in Norway satisfied with gender-affirming care www.scenemag.co.uk/over-90-of-t...

This is hilarious. Ashley St. Clair has renounced her transphobia this week, so her Christian publisher has come out with a statement saying they are taking her name off future copies of "her" book, which is to say that *they* wrote the book in-house, and just stuck her name on it to sell it.

At what point is Róisín Murphy going to figure out that there is no free speech on Twitter, and the things she does not like about it are not actually "contradictions." She finds herself on the same side on trans rights as Elon Musk, and hasn't quite grasped what that means, yet. Will she ever?

Graham Linehan only happens when an ecosystem supports him. Otherwise, he's little more than a manic street preacher. Think about the number of prominent people who intervened recently to protect him from prosecution for promoting violence against the trans community. They're the real problem.

But I thought "gender critical" people just had "normal views" shared by the vast majority of the population? The Greens are publicly supportive of trans rights, and Keir Starmer is little more than a GC puppet, so surely he would romp home in his constituency, right?

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

You're like stenographera for JK Rowling on trans issues. Why haven't you asked her for money? She owes you.

Hey @thehill.com we’re still waiting on your apologies for this lie. 🤷‍♀️

Graham Linehan did a podcast with Joey Barton (convicted of kicking his wife in the head), supports Trump, thinks the murder of Reneé Good was justified, advocated for the repeal of American women's voting rights, and works with the misogynistic Religious Right. And that's a non-exhaustive list.

If we'd based access to trials for HIV/AIDS treatment on public opinion in the 1980s we'd have a lot fewer queer people and people of colour alive today.

A few days ago, the guy who runs this account said of Reneé Good: "Personally I’d have shot her just for the moronic expression on her face, so probably good news all round that I’m not in law enforcement." I don't believe he was brainwashed by Musk or Farage, I think he's just a bad person.

The question was not just in relation to the trial (otherwise it would have been worded differently), so what this poll proves is that the average Labour voter hasn't a clue what they are talking about in relation to puberty blockers, and shouldn't be making medical decisions for other people.

In Graham's numbers aren't a lie, he makes at least 75K a year from Substack. For four years, 70-75% of his Substack was written by an unpaid woman. When she "retired" last year he "employed" another woman to write. She has now quit. Still, his followers don't care. They pay him for existing.

All the money in the world doesn't stop you from being cringeworthy. (See, also, Elon Musk.)

Hi @michaelnugent.bsky.social of @atheistireland.bsky.social. Isn't it time to rescind your support for your friend Graham Linehan's views on women, given that he's excusing shooting a woman in the face, and this is his answer to someone saying he supports rescinding women's rights to vote?

Graham Linehan is cheering for a man who shot a woman in the face while calling her a fucking bitch. JK Rowling sits on her hands. Meanwhile, Posie Parker is tweeting that women should stay at home while men work. Tell me how the "gender critical" movement is a women's rights movement again?

The world would be a better place without "X." Yes or no?

It's genuinely shocking to me that some people will look at a the Cass review - conducted by two transphobes, overseen in part by a conversion therapist, that sought opinions from SPLC recognised hate groups - and pretend with a straight face that it constitutes 'evidence'.

Almost 50 authors have pulled out of the Adelaide Festival after Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah was dropped from the line-up due to “cultural sensitivity concerns” 👇

I dunno, I read this headline and Trump's not the one I'm thinking of as a buffoon. Trump has built his entire empire on people like Stephen saying "but he can't do that, it's against the rules!"

11 days from now marks one year since this guy got away with doing a Nazi salute on live TV. Since then, he - the world's richest man - has gutted govt programmes causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children and turned his microblogging website into a child porn generator. Consequences!

The Cass Review very specifically repeats the lie that 80% of trans chidren desist upon puberty. It does this because Cass conflated gender dysphoria, and gender identity disorder - despite the two having completely different diagnostic criteria.

We are living in the Wild Wild West of the internet, where future generations will simply not believe how virtually lawless this space was, and will shake their head in disbelief at statements made by the governments about how they just couldn't possibly govern this space. This is governable.

banning X is a national security issue for every country, plain and simple its explicit goal is to amplify and empower the largest Nazi-adjacent party in every country in which it operates it is also the largest deepfake porn generator in the world this is not a difficult call to make