Should RTE stop airing Father Ted?

No. Its not a fact. Linehan is a cis man so that's irrelevant. Trans women are trans women. Your claiming they don't exist doesn't make it a "fact'.

Ya, you're just being an apologist for hateful behaviour now.

If we can’t agree on basic logic I obviously can’t win. Yes trans women are trans women. They can also be men at the same time.

PS Linehan is a man. I don’t abide the term cis at all.

Like I said before, depends fundamentally on your definition of hateful behaviour. I’m trying to bring a balance to the definition. By some peoples standards I am absolutely a hateful person. By others (in real life) I am quite meek and gentle.

To add: I’ve actually listened to Linehan speaking, rather than take one liners from Twitter with facetious language. He is far from the evil scumbag people have made him out to be. It’s mostly hearsay.

I don’t agree he did it to mock trans people. He did it to show the absurdity of an ideology that expects us to believe every man who claims to be a trans woman.

PS I’m not saying I think it was a great idea by the way. I just don’t get the outrage.

There is no balance. This is trying to defend his indefensible unhinged behaviour and pretend his behaviour is reasonable. It's trying to make his hatemongering seem rational, reasonable and acceptable. We all know his behaviour is bullying and hateful abuse. That some people seek to downplay and defend that is not in any way balanced at all.

He cannot get a free pass because he's all about the kids. Exactly how have his actions highlighted a wrongdoing that couldn't have been dealt with differently?

I think they "forgot" to mention he was in the act, when they booked the venue...

And I'd say you've gone down a similar rabbit hole to him which isn't particularly grounded in reality.

Looks like you fell for all the nutty conspiracies too.

When you are overtly defending Linehan of course people are going to question your judgement.

You are right on that. Fully expect it. He is a taboo subject.

He's just a bully obsessed with unleashing his bigoted hate everywhere.

Again what has he actually done? As fair as I know kids cannot just transition willy-nilly? (Pun written unintentionally but worth a chuckle). I've read about kids being schooled on forums about what to say to medical professionals, something somewhere about trans women wanting to frolic about in a pool with kids. However there is no trans hive mind as far as I'm aware. There is no generic trans agenda. Bar acceptance which we all want. Sure there are those that shout the loudest/wackiest stuff that'll grab attention/outrage but most folks are just trying to get by. Yer dealt a hand of cards, all you can do is play them. Plus the whole LGBT+ outfit, there's money to be made so ya gotta have new fights to fight all the time. This applies to all NGO types though.

To be fair reasoned debate is hard here. I've in the past had opinions, debated a bit and changed my mind. Next post is "backpedalling much" etc etc. No, I've taken the points raised, digested it and formed an opinion which aligns with the argument being made against my points.