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

Yes that was the court case that he won, albeit he had to go to appeal to get a clear, 100% judgment in his favour.

This thread is about him being arrested by armed police for a completely different matter, a tweet, when he arrived back in the UK to testify at the first case.

That's the link.

You literally just denied trans people are a vulnerable and marginalised group.

The only reason anybody does that is they hate them and want to destroy them.

What about because somebody thinks that their demands to use women's changing rooms are incompatible with women's rights? Would that count as "hatred of trans"?

Consider that a trans identifying doctor got a nurse suspended (and tried to get her fired) because she refused to change in front of the doctor at work - and that expert evidence at the employment tribunal was that the doctor had faked their allegedly contemporaneous notes in order to build a false case against the nurse. Is the doctor really the vulnerable and marginalised one there? What about the working class nurse who had worked for 30 years in that hospital without a single complaint against her before that? Her union refused to defend her because they, like you, have decided that transidentifying men are more vulnerable than any woman. Does that make them right? Seems to me that she was very marginalised, and that it was the doctor who got all the support.

I’m a left-voter who supports feminism, strong social welfare systems, labour rights, reproductive freedom, LGBT rights, anti-racism, Palestinian liberation, and economic redistribution. I oppose MAGA politics, nationalism, and Israel’s genocide in Gaza. At the same time, I believe sex-based rights are real, historically hard-won protections for biological female women and that in situations where sex-based rights and gender identity-based rights come into conflict, sex-based protections should take precedence.

Graham Linehan is awful in the rhetoric he's come to spin in the last decade, I don't like him and I don't support him, but just because we agree on some niche issues within a larger niche issue doesn't mean everyone who does is far-right, or even right wing at all.

Why do you continually deny that trans people are a vulnerable and marginalised group?

You're denying reality. There's a very obvious reason you're doing that. It's because you want to erase their existence.

I'd call that desperate and I think any reasonable person would too.

It is hilarious, isn't it?

When you ask the people who give over a fair portion of their lives fear mongering about trans people have they ever actually met any, you are met with crickets.

Although one lad was served by a trans woman on holidays, he didn't abuse her though.

Get out of here with your reasonable comment. No nuance is allowed.

Okay. The Gender Recognition Act is 11 years old.

How many trans people have you personally encountered in

Single Sex Spaces

Playing organised sports

Changing rooms

Refuges?

So is none your answer?

If it’s not did you approach the person or complain about them being there?

For those who claim that Linehan is not allowed to say what he thinks, is being denied free speech and all the rest, he was given time on Newstalk's flagship radio show to talk about his views on the Eurovision boycott.

Predictably, it was absolutely mental and full of the rage and hatred that his defenders here deny exist.

I simply don't see how people here continue to support this guy.

A spirit-sapping encounter between Shane Coleman and Graham Linehan – The Irish Times

Here's an extract:

With RTÉ boycotting the Eurovision Song Contest in protest at Israel’s participation and replacing it with an episode of Father Ted, Coleman speaks to the sitcom’s co-creator – and anti-transgender activist – Graham Linehan, who says the boycott decision is “like a completely ineffectual teenagerish strop ... to give aid to homicidal rapist lunatics”.

The interview continues in this measured fashion, with Linehan stridently expressing his disgust at RTÉ’s move – “The current fad in Ireland for anti-Semitism is a global embarrassment” – while venturing that the atrocities committed by Hamas during the October 7th attacks justify Israel’s subsequent actions in Gaza: “Every single death in Gaza is on Hamas’s head.”

Posters here should be absolutely ashamed to be making this guy out to be some sort of hero, but it is absolutely galling for the same people to say he is not allowed to air his views. He gets massive platforms to spew his bile.

So well done to all the anti-trans posters here, you've backed a real winner lads.

So that is a firm no, then?

Gotcha.

Normally I would go listen to the audio to hear it first hand.

But not a hope if that is even a snippet of Linehans delusions.

Just another hateful crank.

He didn't even have time for his family because he spent his time online rage tweeting, I very much doubt he was spending anytime creatively writing.

He cancelled himself, from his work, his wife and his kids.

There is no one to blame here but himself.

And instead of pulling back, he is tipped the nose down and has gone into a full spiral.