Deleted a bit about my birthday, celebrating, and thanking all the women who came before because it was making the piece too long and it very quickly went out of date.
It is a powerful piece of writing. I'm rooting for you and other thought leaders to turn Ireland around. The best I hope for Amnesty International is its demise.
Excellent overview, Graham. Now raise a glass to yourself, you more than deserve it! Btw I'm Rose, not the professor these days whose students have rebelled.
Happy birthday nonetheless, Graham. Hope you can find the peace to celebrate because I had a lump in my throat after reading the insanity going on in those countries. Compelled speech to call you daughter a son. That is beyond even anything Orwell could have come up with. Thank you for everything. If only more men would speak out.
First, that Ireland is, like Australia, being considered as a petri dish experiment for the increasingly strident trans programme.
Second, that the switch from gay rights to trans rights recalls the famous scene in Orwell’s 1984 in which a screaming hate speech has its target switched mid-way through and no-one even notices the change:
“There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.”
Third, and once again with reference to 1984, the whole trans issue recalls the famous scene in which Winston Smith is shown four fingers and ordered to see five. We are shown men and ordered to see women.
"She must also pin a public apology to them on every social media account she owns, for as long as she owns them."
Good god, how sinister this?? Legally enforced public shaming. Like going in the stocks. I'd take jail time instead - not saying that she should, I'm lucky to have the freedom to go to jail. This is like something from the Handmaid's Tale. I wonder how the (also captured) ECHR would rule in something like this. This cult needs to be destroyed eradicated never to be seen again.
That stood out to me too - not just here's your punishment, but here's your shame and a message for anyone else that is thinking of stepping out of line. Are sexual predators made to apologise forever on their social media accounts for the things they have done? We all know the answer.
Such a powerful piece, Graham! I’ll be raising a glass myself too, to your very good health. Thank you for continuing this fight. You’re amazing, thank you 🙏
What makes it so difficult is that Australia is captured from the top down. The only way that I can see change happening is simply through numbers. As more and more of us come out and fight against this nonsense, the more that political leaders will have to start listening. It’s happening , but Christ it’s slow.
It’s a great idea but from Graham’s excellent piece it sounds like you would end up being arrested, fined, jailed (and expected to share your cell with a man), fired from your job and excommunicated by your family and friends!!
Posts like this are important. For so many our kids/young adults remain captured as do family & ‘friends’ & our social isolation continues. Momentous events like the UK decision finally a year after the Supreme Court ruling are momentous only to us, a niche crowd. That’s hard to swallow, the dismissiveness, the fact that apologies may never come. And ultimately it is the loss. Decades now. Will our kids ever return or will they be that lost generation.
Watching your journey gives me hope. Happy Birthday
Bravo, Graham. And thank you for your service. What are your thoughts on the U.S. It feels like the ideological capture may have peaked here. Desperately hoping so. There will be no apologies or reckoning, just a quiet scampering away and some furtive glances.
There will be absolutely no apologies. Like you say, there will just be a quiet retreat, some coughing, furtive glances from side to side and then speedy scuttling away. Reminds me of Fawlty Towers and the Germans episode - no-one mention the war!
Wow! I'll add that several women in Ireland completed The Heggen Survey of trans widows' experiences, contributing to the sole data in the world on how the suddenly full time crossdressing husbands behave behind closed doors. In 39% of the cases, they sexually assaulted her. This includes a half dozen rapes, none prosecuted. In 38% of the cases he physically assaulted her, separate from the sex crimes. Some exhibited clever cruelty, such has wrapping his arms around her such that she could not move, until she involuntarily urinated. In 54% of the cases he defamed her in court and/or on social media. In my case, my ex husband, now 72, used the political pro-trans climate that emerged in 2015 in the US to estrange our grown sons from me, building on an indoctrination he started when they were toddlers, learning to talk. He never referred to me as their mother, over and over influencing them to call me by my first name. I corrected them every time. The narcissistic demand for "fairness" meaning, in this case, he didn't want to be called Daddy, equals the erasure of all female terms. Except for the crossdressers, who enforce "daughter, sister, mother, aunt" &etc in their self-righteous campaign for "equality." It's a long haul, Graham, but the truth will prevail.
Most people’s beliefs about reality are on a spectrum that goes between eternalistic and nihilistic. A lot of people have trouble with eternalist religions (like Christanity), and rightly so, but going towards nihilism to get away from eternalism is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Inconvenient truths of nihilism are notions like ‘nothing really matters’ – that there is no such thing as right and wrong. There is no connection between cause and effect. Anything can become anything, so a man can become a woman. And we don’t have to take responsibility for our actions. Our future is in no way determined by our previous actions. There is nothing before or after this present life.
That is one way in which a man can fight the Catholic Church because he was sexually abused as a child, but then go on to ‘assert’ his rights by trampling over the rights of others (women) in another context. It suggests he has not really come to terms with what happened to him. He is still lashing out, blindly, with no clear idea of how to find his way through the maze, like a blind man in a desert.
Wonderful talk by Maeve Halligan, an MPhil student at a Cambridge Union debate on May 14, speaking in favour of a motion that “modern LGBTQ+ activism fails its community.” Great to see young people coming to the fore who are reasoned, eloquent and powerful advocates for truth. A quote from her address:
“being progressive means never questioning the dominant institutional narrative line, and it is a line in which compassion is equated with compliance. But real compassion asks hard questions. Real advocacy protects the people it claims to represent, even when that is inconvenient.”
Politicians in Ireland hated sharing the limelight with the Catholic Church, which they had to do up to a few decades ago. That Church’s influence waned and has been replaced by a new anti-Church religion which includes LGBTQism. Now politicians in Ireland of all hues cosy up like a uniparty to Qism, Queer Theory politics. That is their pseudo-religion now, and it is a great way to exercise totalitarianism while pretending to be democratic.
It’s just control freakery. But “just” doesn’t really convey the pain and suffering caused to those who are cancelled or worse for stating biological fact. Control freaks gonna control, as they say. If it wasn’t pervy blokes in frocks, it would be some other spurious tail with which to wag the national dog. Roof insulation, for instance.
Deleted a bit about my birthday, celebrating, and thanking all the women who came before because it was making the piece too long and it very quickly went out of date.
You deserve a happy birthday Graham, you are a star.
It is a powerful piece of writing. I'm rooting for you and other thought leaders to turn Ireland around. The best I hope for Amnesty International is its demise.
Oh! I'm glad I got to see those parts in my e-mail! This is so good, Graham! You are so good!
Excellent overview, Graham. Now raise a glass to yourself, you more than deserve it! Btw I'm Rose, not the professor these days whose students have rebelled.
Happy birthday nonetheless, Graham. Hope you can find the peace to celebrate because I had a lump in my throat after reading the insanity going on in those countries. Compelled speech to call you daughter a son. That is beyond even anything Orwell could have come up with. Thank you for everything. If only more men would speak out.
Yes! It's crazy!
You are amazing, Graham Linehan. Happy birthday and thank you very much.
Happy belted birthday, Graham!
A few thoughts occur to me.
First, that Ireland is, like Australia, being considered as a petri dish experiment for the increasingly strident trans programme.
Second, that the switch from gay rights to trans rights recalls the famous scene in Orwell’s 1984 in which a screaming hate speech has its target switched mid-way through and no-one even notices the change:
“There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.”
Third, and once again with reference to 1984, the whole trans issue recalls the famous scene in which Winston Smith is shown four fingers and ordered to see five. We are shown men and ordered to see women.
As the t-shirt I bought for my husband says ‘Make George Orwell fiction again’.
amen
Happy birthday Graham. Thank you for all you do, and may all your birthday wishes come true
I thank god for people like you. ❤️
"She must also pin a public apology to them on every social media account she owns, for as long as she owns them."
Good god, how sinister this?? Legally enforced public shaming. Like going in the stocks. I'd take jail time instead - not saying that she should, I'm lucky to have the freedom to go to jail. This is like something from the Handmaid's Tale. I wonder how the (also captured) ECHR would rule in something like this. This cult needs to be destroyed eradicated never to be seen again.
The Scarlet Letter, but it's a T instead of an A
That stood out to me too - not just here's your punishment, but here's your shame and a message for anyone else that is thinking of stepping out of line. Are sexual predators made to apologise forever on their social media accounts for the things they have done? We all know the answer.
If Irish children are being referred to clinics in the UK it shows we in Britain still have a long way to go!
Such a powerful piece, Graham! I’ll be raising a glass myself too, to your very good health. Thank you for continuing this fight. You’re amazing, thank you 🙏
What makes it so difficult is that Australia is captured from the top down. The only way that I can see change happening is simply through numbers. As more and more of us come out and fight against this nonsense, the more that political leaders will have to start listening. It’s happening , but Christ it’s slow.
Happy birthday.
Thanks, Graham! You should have a billboard saying I ❤️ Graham Linehan.
Let's put it in Dublin!
It’s a great idea but from Graham’s excellent piece it sounds like you would end up being arrested, fined, jailed (and expected to share your cell with a man), fired from your job and excommunicated by your family and friends!!
I'd be happy to contribute to that.
I meant the billboard, but not used to commenting here
Posts like this are important. For so many our kids/young adults remain captured as do family & ‘friends’ & our social isolation continues. Momentous events like the UK decision finally a year after the Supreme Court ruling are momentous only to us, a niche crowd. That’s hard to swallow, the dismissiveness, the fact that apologies may never come. And ultimately it is the loss. Decades now. Will our kids ever return or will they be that lost generation.
Watching your journey gives me hope. Happy Birthday
Thank you!
One of your best.
Bravo, Graham. And thank you for your service. What are your thoughts on the U.S. It feels like the ideological capture may have peaked here. Desperately hoping so. There will be no apologies or reckoning, just a quiet scampering away and some furtive glances.
There will be absolutely no apologies. Like you say, there will just be a quiet retreat, some coughing, furtive glances from side to side and then speedy scuttling away. Reminds me of Fawlty Towers and the Germans episode - no-one mention the war!
I hope Graham won't look too closely for America's faults, will continue to find it a welcoming sanctuary where he has freedom.
With the US it probably depends on whether you find yourself in a blue state or a red state..?
An excellent piece, Graham, thank you.
Wow! I'll add that several women in Ireland completed The Heggen Survey of trans widows' experiences, contributing to the sole data in the world on how the suddenly full time crossdressing husbands behave behind closed doors. In 39% of the cases, they sexually assaulted her. This includes a half dozen rapes, none prosecuted. In 38% of the cases he physically assaulted her, separate from the sex crimes. Some exhibited clever cruelty, such has wrapping his arms around her such that she could not move, until she involuntarily urinated. In 54% of the cases he defamed her in court and/or on social media. In my case, my ex husband, now 72, used the political pro-trans climate that emerged in 2015 in the US to estrange our grown sons from me, building on an indoctrination he started when they were toddlers, learning to talk. He never referred to me as their mother, over and over influencing them to call me by my first name. I corrected them every time. The narcissistic demand for "fairness" meaning, in this case, he didn't want to be called Daddy, equals the erasure of all female terms. Except for the crossdressers, who enforce "daughter, sister, mother, aunt" &etc in their self-righteous campaign for "equality." It's a long haul, Graham, but the truth will prevail.
Thank you so much for the amazing work you are doing.
Most people’s beliefs about reality are on a spectrum that goes between eternalistic and nihilistic. A lot of people have trouble with eternalist religions (like Christanity), and rightly so, but going towards nihilism to get away from eternalism is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Inconvenient truths of nihilism are notions like ‘nothing really matters’ – that there is no such thing as right and wrong. There is no connection between cause and effect. Anything can become anything, so a man can become a woman. And we don’t have to take responsibility for our actions. Our future is in no way determined by our previous actions. There is nothing before or after this present life.
That is one way in which a man can fight the Catholic Church because he was sexually abused as a child, but then go on to ‘assert’ his rights by trampling over the rights of others (women) in another context. It suggests he has not really come to terms with what happened to him. He is still lashing out, blindly, with no clear idea of how to find his way through the maze, like a blind man in a desert.
Wonderful talk by Maeve Halligan, an MPhil student at a Cambridge Union debate on May 14, speaking in favour of a motion that “modern LGBTQ+ activism fails its community.” Great to see young people coming to the fore who are reasoned, eloquent and powerful advocates for truth. A quote from her address:
“being progressive means never questioning the dominant institutional narrative line, and it is a line in which compassion is equated with compliance. But real compassion asks hard questions. Real advocacy protects the people it claims to represent, even when that is inconvenient.”
Politicians in Ireland hated sharing the limelight with the Catholic Church, which they had to do up to a few decades ago. That Church’s influence waned and has been replaced by a new anti-Church religion which includes LGBTQism. Now politicians in Ireland of all hues cosy up like a uniparty to Qism, Queer Theory politics. That is their pseudo-religion now, and it is a great way to exercise totalitarianism while pretending to be democratic.
It’s just control freakery. But “just” doesn’t really convey the pain and suffering caused to those who are cancelled or worse for stating biological fact. Control freaks gonna control, as they say. If it wasn’t pervy blokes in frocks, it would be some other spurious tail with which to wag the national dog. Roof insulation, for instance.
Pervy blokes in frocks - too bad priests lost their monopoly on that. I wish the dog waggers would switch to something that were true and right.