#graham glinner

[quinnfabrayapologist]

Graham Linehan claiming he sold out all 10,000 copies of his book when every new source says he sold less than 400 total is actually a great representation of the average gender critical's relationship to the truth

#terfs don't interact #radfems don't interact #graham linehan #glinner #LMAOOOOOO #like. buddy. take the fucking L.

[thingstrumperssay]

The person who has the OF is a trans woman.

She did not get bottom surgery.

"My wife and kids left me because of my transphobia" Glinner, who will talk at anti-trans meetings, watches trans porn.

I wonder if he'll be invited to Posie Parker's next transphobe gathering?

At least this is a lot better than what they usually turn out to be- pedophiles. Plus he's supporting sex workers! (I mean, he could still be a pedophile, but we don't know that for sure yet. I don't, anyway.)

#glinner #graham linehan #transgender #trans #will add tags if I think of more later

[bathtaker]

haus of decline

#glinner #graham linehan #haus of decline

[vavandeveresfan]

J.K. Rowling has been proven right!

"The Cass Review is a damning indictment of what the NHS has been doing to children.

"Dr Hilary Cass has submitted her final report and recommendations to NHS England in her role as Chair of the Independent Review of gender identity services for children and young people.

"Hilary Cass’s report demolishes the entire basis for the current model of treating gender-distressed children. Its publication is a shameful day for NHS England, which for too long gave vulnerable children harmful treatments for which there was no evidence base. It’s now clear to all that this was quack medicine from the start. 

"Dr Cass delivers stinging criticisms of NHS gender clinics, both adult and child, and her description of the Gender Identity Development Service is absolutely damning. It is disgraceful that GIDS, alongside the adult clinics, did not cooperate with her attempt to survey its practice, or to carry out a high-quality, long-term follow-up study on the treatment of children as part of the review, which would have been a global first."

You can read the entire review here. (pdf)

"Glinner" is Graham Linehan, a writer, screenwriter, and comedian who's been fighting against transitioning minors for years, losing friends, his job, and his agent along the way. But he's kept on fighting.

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The tide has turned in the UK and in Europe. When will American media finally begin reporting on the closing of "gender clinics" and the bans on puberty blockers for children? I figure nothing will happen here in the U.S. until the lawsuits start flooding in. It's already begun. And with proof like the Cass Review and the WPATH files, it's going to be very, very difficult for clinics, doctors, and therapists to continue lying about how transitioning does no permanent and irreversible physical and psychological harm.

#Cass Review #transing kids #JK Rowling #I stand with JK Rowling #Graham Linehan #trans lies #WPATH #WPATH files #gender critical #gender clinics #health #medicine #the tide has turned #David Tennant

[marnanel]

#glinner #graham linehan

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: The Most Divorced Time of year

[mysterious circle of robed figures] JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: today we continue our quessst to rehabilitate glinner Rowling: i will not ressst until he isss reintegrated into ssociety Rowling: and not ssleeping on my couch anymore

Rowling: cuz you know Rowling: that man isss Rowling: i mean ssure i hate transs people too Rowling: but i have other interesstsss assss well Rowling: Rowling: i'll let you know asss sssoon asss i think of sssome

Rowling: i do have other interesstsss outsside of transsphobia Rowling: like Rowling: for example Rowling: i like hating on autissstic people too Rowling: i mean, let's be frank Rowling: they've had it too good for too long

Rowling: and, you know, dissabled people Rowling: and the goblinsss Rowling: in fact actually i'm pretty versssatile Rowling: i'm almossst as well-rounded as hp lovecraft if you think about it

Graham Lineham: jk did you know that trans people have smaller skull shapes Rowling: it's 1 pm graham, why are you sstill in pajamas Lineham: i've been researching how the trans control the media Rowling: did you even try to look for a job today

Rowling: graham here's the newssspaper Rowling: hey maybe you could look at the want adsss Rowling: bet there'sss plenty of openingsss for a transsphobic comedy writer Lineham: i don't read newspapers, i heard that the wood pulp industry is captured by trans activists Lineham: they put estrogen in the news ink Lineham: you know Lineham: to get you Rowling: Rowling: wait really? Rowling: shit maybe i should sstart possting that

Rowling: graham ssseriousssly Rowling: you could at leassst apply Lineham: no everyone's against me Lineham: there's no jobs for a fearless truth teller like me Rowling: i Rowling: how Rowling: we live in england! there'sss nothing BUT jobsss for transsphobesss! Rowling: how are you still unemployed!?!

Rowling: look jussst march into the BBC and asssk if they're hiring any transsphobesss Rowling: maybe they'll be impressssed with your moxie and hire you Lineham: it doesn't work like that these days Rowling: jusst wear a sssuit and ssit in the lobby til they hire you!

Lineham: i've got a great idea to get back in people's good graces! Rowling: whatss that Lineham: well you know how david tennant is the most beloved man in the country? Rowling: right Lineham: well if i can bring him down, then i will assume his place Lineham: as the most beloved man in the country Rowling: Rowling: right ok that makess ssensse to me

Rowling: look i clipped out a bunch of adss for transphobic jobss Rowling: i'll jussst ssend them to graham'ss agent Helen Joyce: terrible news, dark lord! Joyce: his agent dropped him for attacking david tennant Rowling: Rowling: oh

#midnight pals #the midnight society #midnight society #jk rowling #graham linehan #helen joyce

[joeyvotto]

graham linehan as in… glinner? 🤢🤢🤢

yes like are you all INSANE

#asks

[coochiequeens]

I wish “activists” got this worked up over the trans movement being used by sex offenders

A British composer and instrument company co-founder appears to have been pushed out of his own company following a tweet in support of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and Father Ted writer Graham Linehan.

On September 5, Spitfire Audio co-founder Christian Henson tweeted: “As a parent I can no longer keep my mouth shut about this. I’m in full support of glinner & @jk_rowling. Please look into this. If you have young children it’s in the post if you have autistic children it’s probably already on your doormat.”

Henson worked as a composer on films such as Chasing Liberty, Chalet Girl and It’s a Boy Girl Thing. His scores also appeared on television shows Scream Team and Fresh Meat. But in 2007, he co-founded Spitfire Audio, a company specializing in audio and instrument gear.

In his tweet, Henson was referencing the recent spike in children undergoing medical transition in accordance with a declared “gender identity”, a phenomenon that has become particularly widespread among children with autism. One 2019 study involving 292,572 children found that those with an autism spectrum disorder were over four times as likely to be diagnosed with a condition indicating “gender dysphoria”. 

Additionally, according to child safeguarding organization Transgender Trend, 48% of patients referred to the Tavistock & Portman Gender Identity Service (GIDS) have a diagnosis or show traits of being on the autism spectrum. According to the organization, referrals to the Tavistock GIDS clinic increased by 3,263% over the ten years from 2009 to 2019, the largest demographic being young girls self-identifying as boys. 

Henson’s tweet also included support for prolific author J.K. Rowling and Father Ted writer Graham Linehan, both of whom have received ample backlash for speaking up about the impact of gender ideology on women and children. 

Henson’s post quickly circulated amongst the gender critical community on Twitter, where he was met with an outpouring of support. But it wasn’t long after the tweet went viral that Henson’s Twitter account was deactivated.

Today, Spitfire Audio’s CEO, Will Evans, released a statement on Twitter on behalf of the company asserting that Henson’s views had “caused hurt amongst our community” and that he would would be taking a “step back” from Spitfire Audio.

But the statement was not well-received by many, with the gender critical community coming out in support of Christian Henson and his right to voice his views.

Following the statement’s posting, #IStandWithChristianHenson began trending on Twitter as users rallied around the composer. 

Author Milli Hill tweeted, “Raising concerns about the protection and welfare of children is ‘hurtful’ and requires time out on the naughty step. This won’t age well. Yet another dissenter publicly shamed for wrongthink. #IStandWithChristianHenson.”

J.K. Rowling herself even made a tweet calling out Spitfire, noting that any professional consequences lodged against Henson as a result of his views would be illegal under U.K. law, as per the Allison Bailey and Maya Forstater judgements.

In the United Kingdom, “gender critical” beliefs are protected under the Equality Act 2010. The decision was cemented as a direct result of an employment tribunal claim forwarded by feminist Maya Forstater. The tribunalfound that Forstater was directly discriminated against and victimized by the Center for Global Development (CGD) after they refused to renew her employment contract due to her beliefs on the differences between sex and gender. 

Several weeks later, another employment tribunal was won by barrister Alison Bailey against her employer, Garden Court Chambers. The tribunal similarly found the Chambers guilty of discriminating against Bailey on the basis of her “gender critical beliefs.” 

Following the backlash, Spitfire Audio doubled down on their initial stance, releasing another thread of tweets reiterating their statement.

“We feel it is important to reiterate that we stand resolutely and absolutely behind advocating for inclusivity and diversity in music – this extends to the LGBTQ+ community, and in the world in general.”

Though the replies to the thread were turned off, many were quick to quote tweet the company to disagree with their position.

Though Henson is being shamed for his views by his own company, his sentiments on the impact of gender ideology on children are shared by a growing number of experts. 

It was recently announced that the Tavistock Gender Identity Service, the United Kingdom’s only pediatric gender clinic, would be closing in 2023. The announcement followed an independent review which found the clinic to be failing children. 

Dr. Hilary Cass, who carried out the review, suspected that there was not enough evidence to support the use of “puberty blockers” as a treatment for gender dysphoria in children. She even suggested that there was research to suggest that puberty blockers may negatively affect brain development.

“Brain maturation may be temporarily or permanently disrupted by puberty blockers, which could have significant impact on the ability to make complex risk-laden decisions, as well as possible longer-term neuropsychological consequences,” Dr. Hilary Cass stated in her report.

But the Tavistock’s closure isn’t the only indication gender ideology’s impact on children is being recognized. 

The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently warned “puberty blockers” could cause swelling of the brain, headache, blurred or loss of vision, tinnitus, dizziness, and nausea. And multiple American states, and European nations, have now warned their health professionals to exercise extreme caution when treating “gender dysphoric” youth.

In February, the National Academy of Medicine in France issued a notice to the members of France’s medical community stating that a “sharp increase in demand” had been observed across the world with children and adolescents seeking gender transition services.

On the dangers of hasty medical intervention, the Academy referenced the May 2021 decision of the Karolinska Hospital in Sweden to halt the issuance of puberty blockers to minors under the age of 16, citing a lack of scientific support and research into their potential health implications.

Speaking to Reduxx, Graham Linehan says that there has been a concerted effort in the U.K. to largely ignore critical information emerging about the practice of transitioning children.

“The entire media class in the United Kingdom is involved in a soft conspiracy to pretend that things like the Tavistock scandal and cancel culture don’t exist,” Linehan says. “The truth is, everyone knows it exists.”

Linehan was permanently suspended from Twitter in 2020 after repeatedly expressing concerns about the medical transitioning of children, as well as criticizing gender ideology and its impacts on women and children. Earlier this year, a musical rendition of Linehan’s popular television classic, Father Ted, was cancelled by producers following pressure from trans activists.

Linehan has since been branded as “dangerous” by his opponents, and some have even suggested his “rhetoric” could result in the murder of transgender people.

“J.K. Rowling and I are the victims of village gossip on a global scale,” Linehan says, “Everything that has been said about us is a misrepresentation by bad-faith actors. No one can ever produce any evidence of our supposed ‘crimes.’ Now, Christian Henson has fallen afoul of the same forces determined to cover up one of the biggest child safeguarding and medical scandals of all time.”

By Shay Woulahan Shay is a writer and social media content creator for Reduxx. She is a proud lesbian activist and feminist who lives in Northern Ireland with her partner and their four-legged, fluffy friends.

#Spitfire Audio #Christian henson #Stop transing children #Graham Lineman #IStandWithChristianHenson #IStandWithJKRowling #reduxx

[quinnfabrayapologist]

Graham Linehan just posted about my boobs look ma I made it

Most feminist transphobe

#transphobia #glinner #graham linehan #the it crowd #black books #radfems don't interact #terfs don't interact #gender criticals don't interact

[thingstrumperssay]

Queerphobes don’t like the fact that queer people have been re-defining the word to be an umbrella term for the LGBT+ because:

(For some context: Homer finds out that he befriended a gay man and freaks out. The episode makes fun of his homophobia.)

#the simpsons #queer #graham linehan #glinner #homophobia #homer's phobia #simpsons did it

[vipnoviny]

Irsko schválilo zákon, který zakazuje číst nemainstreamové zpravodajské zdroje

Zákonodárci v Irsku schválili nový zákon, který zakáže občanům prohlížet nebo sdílet jakýkoli mediální obsah na jejich telefonech a počítačových zařízeních, který není mainstreamový. Ano, opravdu. Nová legislativa znamená, že cokoli co Irové zhlédnou online a bylo to ověřovateli faktů považováno za „nenávistné“, bude mít za následek vězení pro ty, kteří to viděli nebo sdíleli. Youtuber Keith Woods na svém twitterovém učtu píše: "Irsko se chystá schválit jeden z dosud nejradikálnějších zákonů o nenávistných projevech. Pouhé držení „nenávistného“ materiálu na vašich zařízeních stačí, abyste šli do vězení. Nejen to, ale důkazní břemeno se přesouvá na obviněného, od kterého se očekává, že prokáže, že materiál nezamýšlel použít k „šíření nenávisti“. Tato klauzule je tak radikální, že i trockističtí People Before Profit se proti ní postavili jako proti flagrantnímu porušení občanských svobod. Přichází temné časy." Free Speech Ireland píše: „Pozměňovací návrh od @pb4p k zahrnutí Úmluvy OSN o ochraně lidských práv o svobodě projevu do návrhu zákona o nenávistných projevech byl zamítnut. Stejně jako jeden návrh, který odstraní část, která umožňuje stíhání osob vlastnících nenávastný materiál, bez toho, že by jej sdílely.“ Ireland is about to pass one of the most radical hate speech bills yet. Merely possessing "hateful" material on your devices is enough to face prison time. Not only that, but the burden of proof is shifted to the accused, who is expected to prove they didn't intend to use the… https://t.co/DA41PEfvbt pic.twitter.com/UGKWzz66kM — Keith Woods (@KeithWoodsYT) April 28, 2023 Elon Musk okomentoval tuto fašistickou legislativu: "Tohle je masivní útok na svobodu slova."

Západ ztratil své kořeny v křesťanství – tohle jej nahrazuje. Zde je přepis zákona:

Návrh zákona již v Irsku schválen. Irský scénarista Graham Linehan píše: "Irsko právě schválilo nový zákon o nenávistných projevech. Těchto 14 osob hlasovalo proti. Dobře na ně." Ireland just passed a new bullshit hate speech law. These are the 14 who voted against. Good on them. https://t.co/ibm73gKyQY — Graham Linehan (@Glinner) April 30, 2023 Návrh zákona samozřejmě přesně nedefinuje „nenávistné projevy“ a dává právní sílu nejnovějším definicím pohlaví. Jakékoli názory nyní mohou mít za následek pobyt ve vězení. Senátor Rónán Mullen napsal: "Čeká se na Seanadovu debatu o chybném návrhu zákona o nenávisti, který (1) nedefinuje nenávist, (2) zdá se, že trestá „myšlenkové zločiny“ a (3) dává právní sílu šílené nové definici „pohlaví“. Kde jsou lidé za občanskou svobodu, @ICCLtweet, @_IHREC a @fiannafailparty @FineGael – všichni zajati?" Awaiting Seanad debate on flawed Hate Bill that (1) doesn’t define hate, (2) seems to penalise ‘thought crimes’ and (3) gives legal force to mad new definition of ‘gender’. Where are the civil liberties people, @ICCLtweet, @_IHREC, and @fiannafailparty @FineGael - all captured? https://t.co/tMO5c3LUhy — Senator Rónán Mullen (@RonanMullen) April 30, 2023 Překlad: Martin Kirschner (www.vipnoviny.cz), Zdroj: thepeoplevoice.tv Read the full article

#cenzura #irsko #myšlenkovápolicie #myšlenkovézločiny #newsspeech #novámluva #svobodaslova

[queenboudicaa]

From Graham Linehan from The Glinner Update [email protected]

Played The Fool

Sue Donym

Sep 16

I remember my college days studying journalism, which don't seem so long ago, but actually are now, and as a young eighteen year old, a friend gives me something she says explains gender. It is Judith Butler's Gender Trouble. I have heard of this book. People treat it like The Bible. I eagerly open the book and attempt to read it.

I cannot make heads or tails of it. I conclude I simply am not smart enough or well-read enough to understand the religious revelation. I make it to page sixty before giving up, the constant mentions of ‘Althusserian’ and ‘structuralist’ and ‘reifying’ finally defeating me. I don’t feel like any of the book has actually managed to lodge itself in my head.

I give the book back to my friend, and then I pretend to everyone around me that I have read the book. No one figures me out.

When I get older, I realize they all did the same thing.

In my senior year, I win election to student government. I am to represent ‘LGBT’ people. I am proud. I am unaware I am now standing on a cliff, the ground beneath me slowly breaking. I bury my head in the sand as my position becomes increasingly precarious.

I meet with faculty during the first semester. I read through a policy. Suddenly ‘LGBT’ has morphed. It’s ‘LGBTQI+’. I don’t know what the Q and I stand for, let alone that seemingly erroneous plus sign. I am supposed to be the expert, and all these middle-aged people are looking at me to explain the youth speak which is even bedeviling I, the putative youth. I muddle through, using this surprise new acronym, and then I Google it surreptitiously in the meeting. It means ‘Queer’ and ‘Intersex’, and the plus sign appears to be decorative in nature. I wonder what the Q covers that ‘LGBT’ doesn’t, let alone the God-damned plus sign, and I wonder why ‘intersex’ needs to be included at all.

They talk enthusiastically about how everyone has a gender. There are women with penises, men with vaginas. Gender is understood to be how you feel inside. I contort my mind around this way of thinking as best I can. A man is someone who behaves like a man, and a woman is someone who behaves like a woman. That is the working definition you have, even though you paper over it with phrases like ‘identifies as.’

I don’t think about. You can’t. You are told this is how it is, how it has always been, to think otherwise is actually you replicating the kyriarchy, over and over and over again, and you nod and accept it, because you are given this set of facts and told to nod. Pseudoscience justifies it. People talk about ‘brain scans’ and ‘the wrong bodymap’, and ‘indigenous genders’. It’s all conjectural bullshit, but everyone goes along with it.

When I can’t perform the cognitive contortions, I simply don’t acknowledge contradicting evidence. To do so would be to jump off a cliff into an abyss. It is a reflexive thing, unconscious, and its origins lie in the instinct for self-preservation.

Everyone goes along with it. I am a coward, so I accept it and move on. I am twenty two years old, and I don’t know any better, and I want to trust the organizations that say they hold my best interests at heart.

Part of my role on student government was providing student-based pastoral care in my college’s LGBT center. By the time I get there, it’s morphed into the LGBTQI+ Center. I consider myself even-keeled and well-adjusted, perfect to help ‘my people’.

Many of the people that come see me have fairly normal problems. I speak to lecturers about not being homophobic, meet with faculty about LGBTQI issues, and sit through interminably boring student government meetings full of bloviating Young Democrats self-assured about their future self-importance. Increasingly, more people come to speak to me about trans issues. Walking through the center one day, someone assumes I am a ‘pre-hormones trans man’. When I correct them, and say I am a butch lesbian, they suddenly become hostile. I don’t know why, but I feel offended to my very bones about being assumed to be a man.

More and more of my fellow butches suddenly start declaring themselves to ‘truly be men.’ I don’t think about this. You’re not supposed to think about it, or question them, just accept and affirm and acknowledge and adulate their new found authenticity. I get a new package of fliers from an LGBT charity, open them up, and suddenly find that I, simply defined as ‘butch’ (forget the lesbian!) am now supposedly ‘trans’ and under the ‘trans umbrella.’ I call this ridiculous, and loudly.

Someone pulls me aside to ask why I’m being so transphobic.

I meet with a charity group. They have this young woman on staff who declares herself ‘non-binary’ and uses ‘they/them’ pronouns. She does not strike me as gay, and her entire purview of ‘LGBT’ seems to forget the first three letters. She assumes that I am a trans man. When I tell her I am a lesbian, she asks ‘are you sure? Maybe you’ll change your mind’. She then starts talking to me about her boyfriend.

I wonder why this straight girl with dyed hair is telling me what to do on gay issues. What gives her the right?

At the end of the meeting, someone I know from the charity group tells me that ‘Aiden’ is upset I forgot her pronouns. I hadn’t realized. I tell him that this dyed hair fag hag told me I’ll change my mind about being a lesbian. He says that doesn’t excuse messing up Aiden’s pronouns.

The next time I meet Aiden, she keeps calling me ‘he’. She gets upset when I get angry with her.

My student body president sends me a please explain email the next day about upsetting Aiden.

One day in the center, in walks a man in a dress. That’s what I thought in my unfiltered thoughts, before the cognitive dissonance kicks in. But the Aiden experience has taught me a lesson to not speak up. The man uses ~the magical pronouns~, ‘she/her’ and this means he is a woman. He dresses like a prostitute downtown and declares he’s a lesbian.

He says he is a trans woman. But Chloe is different from all the trans women I had met before. They would call themselves ‘gay men gone too far’, tell you hilarious stories, wingman for me at the bar, argue about ‘when Madonna went bad’, arguments that turned into handbag duels at dawn. Many of them were older, and many of them had stories about surviving in a homophobic world, surviving AIDS, dangerous johns, and the joy they felt now, that gay rights had gone somewhere. This man was very different to them.

My hair stands up on the back of my neck every time I deal with ‘Chloe’. It requires conscious effort to make sure I don’t mess up his pronouns, because my brain says that’s ‘a fucking man’, but my cognitive dissonance around the situation and my sense of self-preservation knows that if I don’t call this man a woman I will be in for it. I have seen the results - ‘Chloe’, all six feet of ‘Chloe’, screaming at a fellow trans woman, Clara, half his size, for saying ‘you’re a man honey’. Chloe himself came to me demanding I ban her from the space. I refused.

Clara stops coming into the center. I ask her why, and she says ‘those flipping transvestites, they’re not us.’ Clara never comes back to the center.

None of this thinking about Chloe’s pronouns is conscious. I feel guilty every time my thoughts use the ‘wrong pronouns’. My head is tied up in knots - not something freshman me would have considered, turning up to the center with the goal of getting laid, now trying to smile and put up with this man.

He makes every conversation in there uncomfortable. We relax when he is gone and only homosexuals are in the room.

Suddenly, my straight friends start asking if I’d ‘sleep with a trans woman’. I try laughing this off. One friend gets very insistent, and when I tell him that I wouldn’t consider someone with a dick, he starts wondering if my preferences are ‘rooted in bigotry’. I ask him if he’d sleep with a trans woman. He tells me that no, he’d prefer a woman who can have his children.

I smile and nod, and when the conversation ends, walk out of the room as fast as I can.

Chloe tells us at length about their sexual proclivities. Bondage and leather and ‘being a dom’. Chloe tells us about his lack of luck on lesbian dating apps. I keep to myself that I had ended up setting a height filter to filter out ‘the trannies.’ Nor do I tell him that me and a group of women had made fun of men like him on lesbian dating apps, swapping screenshots and Silence Of The Lambs jokes.

Soon there are more Chloes and fewer women. They all start talking about radical communism, about ‘sex work is work’, ‘cultural appropriation’, and about ‘TERFs’ and how hideous they are. One of them expounds to me at length why I shouldn’t read any feminist works from the seventies, because they hated trans women, and I wouldn’t want to hate trans women, wouldn’t I?

They all behave the same way. I keep getting reports about the Chloes harassing people in the center, particularly young lesbian women. Then there is an influx of ‘Aidens’, straight women declaring themselves to really be gay men. One of them tells me I am ‘appropriating the culture of trans men.’

One day I am in the center, and I look out the glass window of my office. There are a dozen people sitting in the common room of the center, talking animatedly. I realize none of them are lesbian or gay in the actual sense of the word. I feel uncomfortable, but I cannot articulate why I feel such discomfort.

One of the Chloes knocks on my door. This one wears a pink tube top and a pencil skirt. I am strongly reminded of Buffalo Bill. He asks me out for coffee. I decline. He asks why, as I am single. I say that I am busy that day. He tries asking for another day. I say I am playing club football that day. He keeps trying to cajole me. Eventually I dispense with the politeness and tell him I am not interested in him. He shouts at me that I am transphobic and leaves.

A few hours later, my phone blows up. His friends are calling me transphobic for not being interested in him. It’s just one date, they say. One little coffee. You might like it. You don’t know. Your last girlfriend dressed the same. You need to unlearn your genital preferences.

I think to myself my last girlfriend was a foot shorter and had a vagina, but I don’t say anything. I ignore the messages. He is allowed boundaries. I am not.

I am sitting in a class. It’s on sexual histories, a class I took to broaden my horizons from my journalism degree. I try not to think of the student loan I’ll be incurring from taking it.

Strangely enough, it is perhaps the first blow to the self-imposed contortions of my thoughts. The professor starts his lecture by pronouncing that sexual orientation is, in fact, a social construct. He explains that the word ‘homosexuality’ did not exist until the 19th century, and thus, homosexuals are a creation of repressive Victorian sexuality. I find this theory strange. I had grown up in the ‘born this way’ era, to be sure, but my homosexuality seemed biological, instinctual, basal to my very way of being. A powerful attraction to women came to me as naturally as breathing, or seeing, or farting inappropriately on the second date. Yet here was this man telling me, that in fact, my perceptions were merely constructs based on my surroundings.

It seemed strange to me. Someone from the class, notorious for asking questions, puts his hands up and asks about the Romans - you see, he is a student of the classics, and he remarks that the Romans knew of homosexuals. The professor gravely informs in that in fact the Romans were aware of a ‘behavior’, and that as ‘homosexual’ as a word did not exist at the time, there were no homosexuals. Only behaviors, that we codify and understand on a cultural basis.

This made less sense to me than before. It made even less sense to me when someone else asks about trans people. The professor remarks that ‘trans people have always existed’.

Yet homosexuals were invented by the first sexologists, rather than through self-definition? We had to have heterosexuals invent us, as other, first?

I am sitting with some gay friends, and one of them complains about the focus on trans issues when we still don’t have same-sex marriage federally yet. We talk about our disappearing spaces, and I voice that sometimes I am the only lesbian out of thirty people sitting in the LGBTQI+ student center (it had been renamed). I think of it in terms of getting laid - because suddenly all the ‘lesbians’ in the center had penises. It happened so quickly that it was easy to notice. I went to a lesbian group, and it was a sausage fest I made up an excuse to leave. The Chloes moved in, and the lesbians instantly left. I feel constantly uncomfortable, watched, stared at, envied. The Chloes all talk about their genitalia and violent pornography at length, in public, and it makes me feel gross and dirty, and I start to dislike most of them.

I post on my Tinder that I’m not into penis. I log in the next day to find out my account has been banned. Tinder never gives me a straight answer as to why I was banned.

I finish out my term on student government. I don’t run again. I’m a senior. I finish my degree and hurry off to the real world. One of the Chloes takes my place as ‘LGBTQI+ students representative’.

It is the one who tried getting me to go out on a date with him. He makes me feel uncomfortable throughout the whole handover.

I am upset, because he will destroy everything I worked for.

I go to the gay bar with some friends. But when we go, we feel like the only homosexuals in the whole god-damn bar. It’s full of people with dyed hair. A man in a dress tries grinding on me, and when I turn around and tell him no, he calls me ‘transphobic towards trans femmes’. When I declare I am a butch lesbian, people ask if I am a ‘TERF’. I don’t know what a ‘TERF’ is, other than ‘terfs’ are bad. I have been told terfs are bad, so it has to be true right? I don’t want to be a bad person.

I try going to other gay events, and suddenly I am outnumbered. Me, a few older lesbians, and some gay men huddle in a corner of spaces we once proudly called our own, as the Chloes and the Aidens declare it their own - and even worse, that they are just the same as us. It is unnerving, and they no longer feel like safe spaces for me. Gradually, we all stop going. There were no more gay people in the gay space.

I have a lesbian friend. She tells me excitedly about a first date. She meets them in a quirky coffee shop. It is a trans woman twice her size. When she tells the trans woman that she’s not interested, they lose it at her in the coffee shop, calling her a transphobic bigot and screaming and shouting and threatening to hit her.

She tells me, because she knows I don’t tell people things. But she cannot say anything in public. She’ll be transphobic. So she keeps it to herself, and this man gets to continue preying on women who think they’re safe, catfishing, coercing and abusing them.

To say otherwise gets you labelled a terf. And terfs are bad. Why are terfs bad? Don’t ask. Just accept that terfs are bad. Terfs hurt trans women, and you wouldn’t want to do that, would you?

Eventually, my friend hears of her date doing it to someone else. She writes a call out post, saying that you shouldn’t hide important facts about yourself on dating sites. She gets called a terf for saying that ‘lesbians don’t have dicks’, and being verbally abused in public was the rational response of an oppressed person to oppression. It’s a scarlet letter, and she is branded with it. I am a coward and I do not speak up in public. I hate myself. I am thinking of my personal prospects, and not my friend, and not my people. Because if I speak up, I can kiss the career I dream about goodbye. I fear that scarlet letter being branded on my forehead.

I tell my friend in private that I support her. But I daren’t say that in public.

I daren’t ask questions.

One day, I am aimlessly browsing the internet at work. I have written enough copy to cover my ass for the next few weeks. I wait until my boss leaves for the afternoon, and wait out the rest of the day mindlessly scrolling. I see a post in an LGBTQI+ students group on Facebook I’ve forgotten to leave. It’s a troll post, which is apparently ‘terf rhetoric’. The link is still there, and the comments are blowing up, united in performative outrage.

I click the link . I find myself laughing at the description of ‘men in dresses’. To these ‘terfs’, a man has a penis, and a woman has a vagina. Anyone saying otherwise is a damned fool. It seems such an easy way to think about it. I mean, what is a woman, anyway? It doesn’t seem evil, wicked or bad. It seems… sensible.

Finding out more about this new way of thinking becomes addicting. I keep my scrolling through it on my phone. I have always had a fondness for reading people being harshly critical about anything, and now I have an endless source of it, articulating things I knew instinctually but could never find the words to verbalize, could never find the courage to verbalize. I wonder if I am being radicalized - images of ISIS radicalizing fighters over the internet run through my head. But everything seems to make so much sense. I am no longer contorting my thoughts around the desires of others, but thinking freely, observationally, openly, fearlessly.

It felt like my mind had freed itself from chains, chains placed upon it all those years ago, when that naïve eighteen year old who wanted to get laid tried reading Gender Trouble.

The gunk on my mind slowly unclogged. My way of thinking suddenly changed. I was no longer denying what my eyes saw in front of me. No, now I saw things as they were. There was no more contorting my way of thought. For the first time in a long time, I felt clear-headed.

One of the links I clicked in my flurry was a link to Dr. Ray Blanchard’s paper on ‘autogynephilia’. I read it, and finally, I had an explanation. Homosexual transsexuals. And ‘autogynephiles.’ The two types of his famous and controversial typology.

‘Autogynephiles’ - men who had a sexual fetish for ‘being a woman’, a fetish for an alter-ego female self, a fetish for our bodies, our minds, our souls, our experiences. All reduced to jerk-off fodder for some blockhead man.

It explained why they were so desperate for lesbians to date them. They needed us for validating their sexual fetish. Our lives and experiences, our spaces, our dating apps, our culture, our media, our websites, every breath we took, as far as they were concerned, needed to be focused on validating them. Because otherwise, the fantasy was ruined! This straight man would not be able to jerk off over ‘being a lesbian!’. We were not people, we were non-player-characters in their video game. Actresses in pornography, extras in a film where they were the protagonist, and we were off script. We weren’t fully-formed people, with our own desires, we were things, objects, film props.

The entire gay movement, from the lesbians to the gays, to the homosexual transsexuals, reduced to nothing props in some straight man’s sexual fantasy. That’s all we were to them, ultimately.

And I was expected to go along with it?! We were all expected to go along with it?

Not only that, I had gone along with it. I had advocated for this.

What had I done?

Every moment you come close, every moment you start thinking something isn’t right, you start feeling a little foolish.

Of course this is fine. Everyone is telling me so. The media, the public, the people around you. No one voices concerns. When you have them, you don’t say anything, because no one else is, and because you are a coward.

You feel a little foolish because this is foolish. Saying some women have penises is foolish. You know it is foolish, from the minute that idiot phrase leaves your mouth, to the minute it dances across your tongue, to the minute your nerves send the signal to your larynx to make the required movements to produce the very sounds. But, you think, you are no fool.

You are no fool, you think, when someone says ‘biological women have XY chromosomes’, or that it’s okay for a man on the college track team to identify as a woman and take a place on the woman’s track team. You know that’s not right. But everyone else is going along with it, and you are no fool, and you shouldn’t feel foolish, because everyone says this is the right thing to do, the right side of history, doing right by an oppressed minority, so you go along with it.

You are frightened of realizing you are a fool. So too, is everyone around you. No one likes being played the fool, no one likes realizing they were sold a pack of lives as a naïve eighteen year old looking for other gay people. And no one plays you for a fool. And thus the dance continues, everyone one too frightened to admit that, perhaps, we are all fools, believing in something physically impossible, no different to the bible-banging megachurch attendee, with our owns chants, our own magic words, ritual knowledge, and ability to be born again. We are smart. We liberal. We are on the right side of history. We couldn’t be believing in something that isn’t scientifically backed. We’re smarter than that. We’re not fools.

And when it finally gets too much, and you drift over to the cliff’s edge, the cliff that you can see the bottom of, the cliff you know you can’t come back from, you pull away. Because to go over it would to be to admit that you’ve been played the fool. No one likes that feeling, the shame, the embarrassment, the horror, the fear. What lies over that cliff is exile, a scarlet letter, fear and hatred and nasty women who just want trans women dead.

What lies beyond that cliff is a realization that you have been used. You have been used by something greater than yourself, to push medication on children. You have been used by straight men to participate in their sexual fetish without your consent. Your entire community, rendered a jerk-off prop for some straight man over night, and you were told that objecting was ‘transphobic’. You have been used to spread homophobia beyond your comprehension, to take part in the destruction of your own community, and you were told this was right and good.

To realize this, to acknowledge it, to move on and try and forge something better, that takes true strength of character. To realize this, to deny it, and obfuscate what you are doing, that I can understand. I too, was once a coward. I too, did not want to believe what my eyes told me was sitting in front of me. That cliff is scary, and to jump off it seemingly lies nothing but social death.

But eventually something pushes you over, without your consent. You realize you have been played the fool, because finally, something so gratuitous occurs that you must. Even the greatest cowards will eventually be blown off the cliff. The music will stop, and the dance will end, and you will finally feel the shame, the embarrassment, the horror, the fear, the guilt.

Because no one likes being played for a fool.

Perhaps, then, it is best to get this over and done with now, while you still have dignity to defend.

Some details have been changed to protect the identities of those concerned.

#radical feminism #radical feminists #transwomen #transwomens bodies look awfully similar to mens bodies #radfem #radfem community #graham glinner #butch #lesbian #lgbt #lgb

[vavandeveresfan]

Graham Linehan is right. These Harry Potter stars will regret their betrayal of JK Rowling.

via The Telegraph:

Michael Deacon, Columnist, 3 October 2023 • 7:00am

In Tough Crowd, Graham Linehan’s new book chronicling his battle against militant trans activism, the comedy writer reserves particular scorn for the three main stars of the Harry Potter films. When JK Rowling was monstered on social media for daring to speak up in support of women’s rights, those three actors – Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint – could have leapt to her defence. But they did not. Instead, they each loftily proclaimed their support for the trans rights movement.

“[They] instantly betrayed her,” Mr Linehan writes. “[They] deserve to be remembered as symbols of the most remarkable arrogance, cowardice and ingratitude.”

He needn’t worry. Because one day, I strongly suspect, they will be.

Obviously none of us is obliged to share the opinions of the people we worked for at the start of our careers. Whenever I sit down to write a column, I do not first ring up the manager of the Edinburgh branch of Bargain Books I worked at in summer 2001, just to check that my views on Sir Keir Starmer or the Duchess of Sussex meet her approval. Nor do I run my opinions on Black Lives Matter or Just Stop Oil past the former editor of J17, the long-defunct teenage girls’ magazine for which I was junior staff writer in 2003.

Those three former child stars, however, are in an unusual position. JK Rowling did not give them a paper round, or a Saturday job in their local corner shop. She gave them global fame – something they would have been unlikely to achieve without her. And so, even though they don’t share her views, their response should at least have been more respectful. They could have said in the immediate aftermath: “I will always support trans rights. However I am appalled by the abuse of JK Rowling. Nothing she has ever said is remotely bigoted or transphobic. She’s just speaking up for women, that’s all.”

So why didn’t they fight her corner? Are they absolutely beyond doubt that their views place them on “the right side of history”? Or were they simply scared of being cancelled themselves?

I don’t know. But I do know that, if “the right side of history” turns out to have been JK Rowling’s, their treatment of her will be the only thing that anyone remembers about them.

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GCs and Radfems, if you're not reading Graham Linehan you should be.

On Twitter-X.

On Substack: The Glinner Update.

#gender critical #GC #Harry Potter #radfem #JK Rowling #I stand with JK Rowling #daniel radcliffe #emma watson #rupert grint

[profeminist]

“You won’t drag me into your weird, obsessive little culture war, mate. I wrote a message in solidarity of a group who’s life expectancy ranges in the 30’s solely due to murder and suicide (is it any wonder). Is your back not *aching* from bending to punch so fucking low.”

Hozier, responding to piece of shit and non-stop transphobe Graham Linehan, who had tagged Hozier in a bullshit post.

#hozier #trans #transgender #trans ally #trans allies #trans rights #trans equality #fuck glinner #fuck graham linehan #transphobe

[daisies-and-internal-screaming]

It’s ironic how linehan has gone from writing jokes to being the joke.

#graham linehan #glinner #this man is a terrible human being #I wish he got half as much hate as JK Rowling

[terflies]

Via Gourmet Hot Takes on twitter, Graham Linehan figuratively associating being gender critical with hiding from the Nazis.

That the replies on Twitter have only support from other ~gender critical~ people, as far as I can see, sickens me.

#antisemitism #graham linehan #gender critical #terfs #transphobia #glinner #holocaust / #shoah /