Fr Ted creator/writer Graham Linehan Arrested over posts on Transgender issues

This made me LOL

Whenever someone posts a link to a media site I don't know, I check it its political leaning on allsides.com or similar.

I had to go to Brietbart to get a more extreme score. Fox News scored -4.0 😀

Yale university staff are 77% democrat v 3% Republican registered.

The chances of a review by the above educational institution and being published in the above media site being an independent review are about as low as me competing in the Tour de France next year

To add, it's actually galling to me that a media outlet that made me and my peers feel like fat pigs in the 2000s for being over a size 8 are now going to bat for the idea that men are women. I was young and I starved myself to fit into what they said was acceptable, they can't claim any moral superiority whatsoever. If any woman back then had shown any masculine trait they would have lampooned her for it.

Very true but with one important reservation: my dad, god rest him, used to say back then that he couldn't understand why the fashion industry seemed to find only women who looked like teenage boys attractive.

I, of course, at the time thought he was an unenlightened idiot. But now it seems somewhat plausible to me that maybe that pressure on young women to starve themselves into looking like 13 year old boys was not entirely unrelated to the way certain adults now seem so keen to push the "need" for puberty blockers onto either boys or girls?

Have you really been posting about this stuff without knowing what actually happened?

That's exactly the OPPOSITE of what she said. The claim here was, in case you forgot,

"So, if a little boy wants to wear a pink dress, or a little girl wants to play with a toy excavator, should we let them at it, or bring them to a doctor who'll affirm their new gender identity with drugs and surgery?"

which is the exact opposite of her story, where drugs and surgery came after a VERY LONG journey, including suicide attempts and much more. It's just mad how some people are absolutely determined to write off the mere existence of trans people by blaming parents, or TV or social media. It's a bit of a shocker I know, but trans people exist.

Linehan put himself in 'the wrong place at the wrong time'. Just like the judge said to Enoch Burke, he has the keys to his own prison stay.

So why is the fact that 18 months, Jack would put on his mother's bra important then? Nobody made her say all that.

“I first realised Jackie was different when she was 18 months old,” says her mum Susie Green.

"Although she was my first child, I had lots of nephews and nieces and Jackie just didn’t seem to behave like them.

“She’d go into my wardrobe, put on dresses and she even put my bra on at 18 months.

“The nursery staff were telling me Jackie was different when she went there at two and a half years old.”

Cross-dressing in the dressing up box

At nursery Jackie never played with the boys, always took a female role in the games played and would treat the soft toys like babies or pretend to have tea with them.

“She couldn’t wait to get into the dressing up box. She’d come out as Snow White with a jumper on her head and the arms trailing down to make it look like she had long hair.”

She insists that he only liked sparkly things etc, and that HER HUSBAND couldn't stand the fact of having an "effeminate", probably gay, son. BTW that used to be a "joke" among Tavistock staff - that soon there'd be no gays left (because they'd all be transed. Hilarious, right?)

So if you think the fact that there's an extra step where the child has internalised that parental homophobia and decided to become the person their father could love, makes the whole tragedy fundamentally different to the shortcut I described, then fine.

But it's really not. Internalised homophobia based on liking girls' toys (because before puberty, that's what it was - he couldn't possibly have been sexually attracted to anyone at age 4) is still transing someone on the basis that they like girls' toys and dressing up. It's what happened to that child. Because of his father's homophobia, which tragically the child then internalised and decided to "fix" by becoming a child who was allowed to play with girls' toys, ie a girl.

If you think that transing a gay person to make their sexuality acceptable to homophobes isn't a thing, maybe consider why Iran was for decades the country where by far the most sex change operations took place. That's because it was the only way a homosexual man could have a legal relationship with another man there. Otherwise they were risking imprisonment and even death.

And you should watch the Panorama exposé of the now shut Tavistock GIDS clinic, where you can see for yourself clinicians laughing and joking that "There’ll be no gays left". (89% of girls sterilised and 81% of boys chemically castrated there were same sex oriented.

Also FYI, sexual orientation is very different from wrongly imagining that you were born in the wrong body, which is quite simply impossible.

It's amusing seeing you claim that people are posting false information when you literally lied that Linehan had called for people to "beat up children". He made a JOKE (remember those things?) based on how to respond to a violent act (after calling the cops etc first) - but it was still a JOKE. Because women don't have balls.