Cookd and Bombd popularised the epithet "Twitter policeman" for Linehan, referring to his desire to lay down standards of right and wrong.
Graham Linehan says that his campaigns against trans people have cost him work The co-creator of Father Ted has spoken up about his career being halted due to his continuously negative views about trans people.
When I first got into this conversation I would see young girls getting double mastectomies and hysterectomies and I didn’t think I’d have to talk about it long. Now, it frequently seems to mean 'anyone with the chutzpah to publicly disagree with a celebrity or media figure. Even as recently as 2009 there was not the same awareness that trans women are women deserving of basic human dignity, and there's a long tradition especially in British comedy of He is opposed to the term "TERF", which he considers misogynistic.He changed his Twitter handle to Magdalen Berns Forever in 2019 in response to the TERF activist and self-styled transphobe's terminal illness and death.On 21 September 2019 he announced he was taking a break from Twitter ("Going to go quiet for a while so my family and I can have a break").Various people have speculated about Linehan's mental health and how his constant use of Twitter is doing him no good. I'm going to have to block you. tells them they are in the wrong bodies and must change their bodies to fit into a sexist and homophobic society. If you value having an independent LGBT+ media in Ireland, you can Graham Linehan says that his campaigns against trans people have cost him workThe material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of GCN.“I think there’s just a stink around me, the stink of bigotry, you know, that has deliberately been created, by radical trans-rights activists. However he seemed to develop a kind of megalomania.
Ireland 11 February, 2020. He was recently criticised for both supporting and assisting Stella O’Malley – a psychotherapist and public speaker – Linehan, who is 51 and married with two children, has said he was advised by friends to steer away from the debate to save his career. Graham Linehan has seen speaking events cancelled, lawsuits filed and police visit his home for confronting trans rights activists . Written by Jamil Bhaloo. He says this is important because Twitter is moderated by ‘women hating incels”. His possible nadir was when a woman (and sexual assault survivor) asked him to stop calling women ‘females’ and pointed out that she had been assaulted by men, not trans women.
The cancellation of the former cost him half a year’s income, Linehan revealed.Linehan is also highly active on Twitter, with just over 600,000 followers that he uses to voice his anti-trans views, as well as to defend women-only spaces and facilities. On June 27 2020, Graham Linehan got permanently banned from Twitter, due to violating several of their hateful conduct policies.Linehan was prominent in the early 2010s on Twitter and was actively involved in campaigns on progressive issues, opposing The editor of British comedy website Cook'd and Bomb'd (C&B) has criticised celebrities including Glinner and Ricky Gervais for aggressive behaviour on social media. . He called the Women's March London "Traitors" for calling themselves "trans inclusive and He also attacked comedian Josie Long over her views on trans people, leading to Long temporarily deleting her Twitter account to avoid the torrents of abuse.He has also attacked feminists, including award winning journalist Mona Eltahawy, for being trans supportive. I thought others would see this was obviously wrong, and step in.“None of that happened. On Dec 16, 2016 he got involved in a row over a However this ignores the fact that the episode offers a ridiculous caricature of a trans woman far beyond what one transphobic (and generally unpleasant) character says about her. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. All the best with it. I have to keep speaking out.”Graham Linehan’s claims of receiving support from trans people don’t reflect previous sentiments toward him, as seen by the back in September of last year. "In October 2018 he received a verbal warning from West Yorkshire police for harassing trans activist Stephanie Hayden on Twitter, and a ban on contacting her in future. This means a temporary pause to our print publication and live events and so now more than ever we need your help to continue providing this community resource digitally. Feminists all over the world are now looking to the UK as the place where the resistance to all this stuff started: I do like to think I had something to do with that.” Linehan has claimed that many well-meaning people believe the debate about being trans is “like the gay debate” but says that the differences are fundamental.“The gay issue was telling people they were fine the way they were. He responded that “it’s not all about you.” "Traitors", Glinner, Twitter, 3:15PM 20 Jan 2019, archived at The gender ideology .