Oh no, really? Did she platform gender ideologues or was it a general narrative we've all come to know and hate? Perhaps things have shifted enough for her to be stronger. I know things are still toxic but the subject has been broached now (well done Glinner). Could be worse, could be better I suppose.
I used to rate him, too, but Evan Davis surprisingly disgraced himself on Newsnight a few years ago, indulging Mermaids' Susie Green, giving her max airtime while failing to allow challenge to her, even belittling an attempt by Transgender Trend's Stephanie Davies-Arai to introduce corrective information. He appeared unashamedly ill-informed and biased.
It's unprofessional to fail to familiarise himself with basics of any subject he's entrusted to present to the nation but especially something as consequential as the transing of children and effects of puberty blockers. He chose to give Mermaids BBC credence.
Where might we all be if the BBC had allowed questioning of Mermaids years ago?
But perhaps he has since shifted on gender identity and transing children?
Good interview. There's so much to talk about, it's difficult to narrow down your talking points. Well done Graham. I'd be a blathering mess, so I'm doubly impressed that you're so very good in these interviews.
Same. Cannot BELIEVE people still think this is a civil rights movement... shouting down women and making them unsafe, untrue mantras (TWAW), hurting children irreversibly, violating LGB people. It's crazy how you can just say "social justice" and so many people will just go along with it, without even understanding it. Hard-line atheists who believe themselves to be so rational believing in it!! All of these poor oppressed suicidal trans people came out of no where in terms of press coverage. The Pink News (just one example, of many) have suddenly started reporting on a new group, did no one notice the suddenness in the dramatic rhetoric? Did that not raise anyone's eyebrows at all? Strange how it's women who are overwhelmingly murdered too. The news makes that clear (my point being women are clearly more vulnerable). Still, it doesn't peak anyone's interest as to whether or not any of this stuff is even true, or if it's at very least, exaggerated. I'm amazed both by the sheer corruption and cowardice of so many institutions, but also the naivety of smart people.
Only Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch and Liz Truss are talking or doing "conservative" things about Trans. Ms Braverman's speech to Policy Exchange on 10th August was very good on the harms of the "EDI" industry and their professional social justice warriors.
From 1:21:30 on the show if you want better audio.
I don't know how much interest Michael has taken on this topic, but I do remember he was well prepared before The Moral Maze show and sidestepped at least one of the usual traps.
Fantastic!! You were excellent! What a surprise The Times put this out there, when pretty much everyone else bar The Telegraph and GB News has abandoned this story almost completely. Well done, Glinner. We love hearing you get your voice out there on this subject!
p.s. unrelated question but it is about who (i.e. what newspapers / news channels) is putting out what information.... WHY is the Guardian still so positive about drag queen story hour... surely they know the tide is starting to turn... surely they can see (in plain sight) what Mermaids is doing (and Mr DQ is raising money for them). Why so positive? Is it ignorance, arrogance or blindly licking the butts of their woke readership? How will they climb down from this once the truth is out (the transgender thing in general) or do they just spin their way to survival? I just don't understand why The Guardian continually digs their heels on things they will surely know they will be proved wrong on, or am I being naive about how indoctrinated they are? I'm not for a moment saying they wouldn't lean left, but they always seem to go to an extreme, painting DQSH as something wonderful for example. I'd love to understand, if anyone knows!
Guardian readers spend a lot of time chatting about who funds other news outlets but never seem to ask themselves who funds the Guardian. My guess would be that's where our answer lies here.
Wow. He just let you speak. How refreshing to not be interrupted. Thank you Graham and Mr Portilo. Btw your mums poker group sound like role models to me. 😚
Mr Portillo gave Graham a platform to spread the message.However he asked questions, allowed Graham to speak but at the end said
" Graham Linehan stating your own point of view extremely clearly, I'm grateful to you for that. Thank for you coming onto times radio"
I note he never agreed or endorsed Graham's 'point of view'-typical politician ! There are so many ramifications on this topic, Mr Portillo also could have broadened the discussion seeing as Graham was stating things "extremely clearly". Just under 9 minutes, no where near long enough.
I know but it's a decent start. At least Portillo dared to touch on the subject (or allow Glinner to). Glinner, you've been so amazingly patiently. This feels like a slllllllow game, but we are getting somewhere! I'm now referring to transgenderism as "child abuse" to anyone I meet. Point blank. If asked to explain, I say "I'm just not down with sterilising gay kids." I've really worked on making them throwaway comments!
Yes you're correct, it ends up for me trying to explain some of the issues and you are met in response, usually ladies, with their opinions not based on reality or fact. That's when it ends up in frustration for me and a poor semi lecture for them. Thanks Kay
Yeah I've been where you are. I genuinely think mentioning how you "don't agree with the sterilising of gay kids" can show straight away that you're not homophobic. For some bizarre reason, people think that not agreeing with the T means that you are anti-LGBT in general.
I also outright told a friend I DID NOT agree with transgender influencers/role models (i.e. people who flaunt their 'trans identity' by modelling their double mastectomies on the front covers of magazines etc). "NO to trans role models if it encourages children to go on untested drugs and ask doctors to remove their body parts".
A few others....
[Re: trans icons/role models]: "I don't believe in glorifying self harm"
"Trying to become someone else is the opposite of accepting who you really are"
"I don't believe in regressive stereotypes from 1950s" (blue-boys, pink-girls)
"There are feminine boys and masculine girls. What do we do about it? Carve them up?" - stolen from Jordan Peterson.
"I don't believe in sexed souls" (a reminder to people that this is not science).
"Why do children suddenly think they are born in the wrong body?" .. "they're getting this from somewhere"
"I believe in telling children the truth" (schools are bound BY LAW to teach facts - they are breaching this by teaching gender ideology).
Depending on the person and where they are at with it all, I'd go as far as to say it's "cosmetic surgery". Gender reassignment makes it sound like they are making real men and women. It's purely aesthetic. To be blunt, an inverted penis is not a vagina.
Sometimes I think the sharpness of saying something totally opposite to all the dramatic headlines can hit home rather than skirting around the issue. But in a sense, you have to say something that is unarguably liberal, so that no one can say what an awful bigot you are. It needs to be something they can't say "you're being out order".
Hope this helps :)
p.s. I'd recommend following James Esses on Twitter if you don't already. He is great at myth-busting phrases.
Mr Menno has done a nice video on peaking strangers when out and about. I think he called it something like "Al Fresco peaking" or maybe "peaking in the wild". Anyone remember?
It's best done with a light touch and in genial mood (if you can find one!)
When I went into Substack, I kept being invited to log on to Twitter, I got fed up with the interruptions so I uninstalled it. I don't really have the time to tweet or figure out how it works on YouTube. Thanks for your passion anyway, I don't think it was long enough to qualify as a rant ?🙂
Well said ,Graham ,and well done to Michael Portillo for interviewing you. ♥️👍👏.Who would ever have thought that ,out of all the political parties in the UK ,even ex politicians , the Tories would be the only ones who as much as attempted to protect women and children. Shame on the rest of them.💔😭😈
Graham, my 90 year old mum also loves Portillo's railway show, and has no interest in trains either. Incidentally, one of her nicknames is Mrs Doyle. Great to see you getting on these shows - about time.
Me too! My mother is from Ireland and she says the same, Lin a Han, when a reference to Father Ted comes up. Which is often… Have we all been saying it wrong??
Great to see you getting on these shows! What a pity Newsnight can’t extend an apology to you or at least invite you on so you can say I TOLD YOU SO!
Yessss! Come on Newsnight, have Glinner back! To the tune of "Back for Good" by Take That...
Victoria Derbyshire is taking over from Maitlis as lead presenter. Don't hold your breath.
Oh Victoria Derbyshire is pretty good, no!? Surely she's wised up on all of this. She's not a coward, I wouldn't say!?
Maybe she's got better, but her daytime show was for years one of the beeb's conduits for repeating trans orthodoxy.
Oh no, really? Did she platform gender ideologues or was it a general narrative we've all come to know and hate? Perhaps things have shifted enough for her to be stronger. I know things are still toxic but the subject has been broached now (well done Glinner). Could be worse, could be better I suppose.
I actually quite rate Evan Davis.
I used to rate him, too, but Evan Davis surprisingly disgraced himself on Newsnight a few years ago, indulging Mermaids' Susie Green, giving her max airtime while failing to allow challenge to her, even belittling an attempt by Transgender Trend's Stephanie Davies-Arai to introduce corrective information. He appeared unashamedly ill-informed and biased.
It's unprofessional to fail to familiarise himself with basics of any subject he's entrusted to present to the nation but especially something as consequential as the transing of children and effects of puberty blockers. He chose to give Mermaids BBC credence.
Where might we all be if the BBC had allowed questioning of Mermaids years ago?
But perhaps he has since shifted on gender identity and transing children?
She might just revisit this topic. She interviewed a detransitioning architect called Richard Hoskins, reported in the Daily Mail 21st January 2020: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7911163/Richard-Hoskins-detransitioned-four-years-living-woman-did-escape-past.html
Great interview Graham. Glad to see you given the airtime to show the depth and detail of your knowledge. Bravo!
Excellent broadcast Glinner - respect and thanks.
Good interview. There's so much to talk about, it's difficult to narrow down your talking points. Well done Graham. I'd be a blathering mess, so I'm doubly impressed that you're so very good in these interviews.
Same. Cannot BELIEVE people still think this is a civil rights movement... shouting down women and making them unsafe, untrue mantras (TWAW), hurting children irreversibly, violating LGB people. It's crazy how you can just say "social justice" and so many people will just go along with it, without even understanding it. Hard-line atheists who believe themselves to be so rational believing in it!! All of these poor oppressed suicidal trans people came out of no where in terms of press coverage. The Pink News (just one example, of many) have suddenly started reporting on a new group, did no one notice the suddenness in the dramatic rhetoric? Did that not raise anyone's eyebrows at all? Strange how it's women who are overwhelmingly murdered too. The news makes that clear (my point being women are clearly more vulnerable). Still, it doesn't peak anyone's interest as to whether or not any of this stuff is even true, or if it's at very least, exaggerated. I'm amazed both by the sheer corruption and cowardice of so many institutions, but also the naivety of smart people.
Only Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch and Liz Truss are talking or doing "conservative" things about Trans. Ms Braverman's speech to Policy Exchange on 10th August was very good on the harms of the "EDI" industry and their professional social justice warriors.
From 1:21:30 on the show if you want better audio.
I don't know how much interest Michael has taken on this topic, but I do remember he was well prepared before The Moral Maze show and sidestepped at least one of the usual traps.
Thanks for giving us the time (1:21:30), Tea-Rex :)
They make it up as they go along! And the woke/progressive just follow to be part of the "in crowd " (very old term but still appropriate for today!
I've worked on GBRJ. Could tell you some funny stories. But I'd like to remain employable. 😉
I don't necessarily share his politics but he's a decent bloke.
Same, although I'm really impressed he spoke to Glinner on this subject.
He's very gay. I wonder who he talks to about "trans", if anyone? "Times Radio" is trying to catch up with GB News, I think?!
I am very happy that he invited Graham to talk about it obviously.
Fantastic!! You were excellent! What a surprise The Times put this out there, when pretty much everyone else bar The Telegraph and GB News has abandoned this story almost completely. Well done, Glinner. We love hearing you get your voice out there on this subject!
p.s. unrelated question but it is about who (i.e. what newspapers / news channels) is putting out what information.... WHY is the Guardian still so positive about drag queen story hour... surely they know the tide is starting to turn... surely they can see (in plain sight) what Mermaids is doing (and Mr DQ is raising money for them). Why so positive? Is it ignorance, arrogance or blindly licking the butts of their woke readership? How will they climb down from this once the truth is out (the transgender thing in general) or do they just spin their way to survival? I just don't understand why The Guardian continually digs their heels on things they will surely know they will be proved wrong on, or am I being naive about how indoctrinated they are? I'm not for a moment saying they wouldn't lean left, but they always seem to go to an extreme, painting DQSH as something wonderful for example. I'd love to understand, if anyone knows!
The Times have been quite good on trans ideology gone berserk. I swopped to it from the captured Guardian.
The Times have been great. I'm impressed!
Same here
Good question. Doubling down?
Maybe. If I was them, I'd keep a bit quiet! Perhaps we're not as close to the end as I'd like us to be...?
The link between DQSH and paedophilia is out there in plain sight, for God's sake! Parents rightly complaining in sleepy County towns and cities.
Guardian readers spend a lot of time chatting about who funds other news outlets but never seem to ask themselves who funds the Guardian. My guess would be that's where our answer lies here.
Wow. He just let you speak. How refreshing to not be interrupted. Thank you Graham and Mr Portilo. Btw your mums poker group sound like role models to me. 😚
Fabulous. Well done.
Mr Portillo gave Graham a platform to spread the message.However he asked questions, allowed Graham to speak but at the end said
" Graham Linehan stating your own point of view extremely clearly, I'm grateful to you for that. Thank for you coming onto times radio"
I note he never agreed or endorsed Graham's 'point of view'-typical politician ! There are so many ramifications on this topic, Mr Portillo also could have broadened the discussion seeing as Graham was stating things "extremely clearly". Just under 9 minutes, no where near long enough.
I know but it's a decent start. At least Portillo dared to touch on the subject (or allow Glinner to). Glinner, you've been so amazingly patiently. This feels like a slllllllow game, but we are getting somewhere! I'm now referring to transgenderism as "child abuse" to anyone I meet. Point blank. If asked to explain, I say "I'm just not down with sterilising gay kids." I've really worked on making them throwaway comments!
Yes, maybe that's another way to shock folk out of their ignorance and laxity. Work on true soundbites.
Well I got no where with lecturing people and being long-winded, so I've condensed the horror 🤣🤣
Wow, social media is really fast !
Yes you're correct, it ends up for me trying to explain some of the issues and you are met in response, usually ladies, with their opinions not based on reality or fact. That's when it ends up in frustration for me and a poor semi lecture for them. Thanks Kay
Yeah I've been where you are. I genuinely think mentioning how you "don't agree with the sterilising of gay kids" can show straight away that you're not homophobic. For some bizarre reason, people think that not agreeing with the T means that you are anti-LGBT in general.
I also outright told a friend I DID NOT agree with transgender influencers/role models (i.e. people who flaunt their 'trans identity' by modelling their double mastectomies on the front covers of magazines etc). "NO to trans role models if it encourages children to go on untested drugs and ask doctors to remove their body parts".
A few others....
[Re: trans icons/role models]: "I don't believe in glorifying self harm"
"Trying to become someone else is the opposite of accepting who you really are"
"I don't believe in regressive stereotypes from 1950s" (blue-boys, pink-girls)
"There are feminine boys and masculine girls. What do we do about it? Carve them up?" - stolen from Jordan Peterson.
"I don't believe in sexed souls" (a reminder to people that this is not science).
"Why do children suddenly think they are born in the wrong body?" .. "they're getting this from somewhere"
"I believe in telling children the truth" (schools are bound BY LAW to teach facts - they are breaching this by teaching gender ideology).
Depending on the person and where they are at with it all, I'd go as far as to say it's "cosmetic surgery". Gender reassignment makes it sound like they are making real men and women. It's purely aesthetic. To be blunt, an inverted penis is not a vagina.
Sometimes I think the sharpness of saying something totally opposite to all the dramatic headlines can hit home rather than skirting around the issue. But in a sense, you have to say something that is unarguably liberal, so that no one can say what an awful bigot you are. It needs to be something they can't say "you're being out order".
Hope this helps :)
p.s. I'd recommend following James Esses on Twitter if you don't already. He is great at myth-busting phrases.
Your list is wonderful. I have copied in my special file of memorable quotes, to be used whenever I can!! Thank you so much.
PS: Jordan Peterson is great on this.
Thanks for this, Kay.
Mr Menno has done a nice video on peaking strangers when out and about. I think he called it something like "Al Fresco peaking" or maybe "peaking in the wild". Anyone remember?
It's best done with a light touch and in genial mood (if you can find one!)
When I went into Substack, I kept being invited to log on to Twitter, I got fed up with the interruptions so I uninstalled it. I don't really have the time to tweet or figure out how it works on YouTube. Thanks for your passion anyway, I don't think it was long enough to qualify as a rant ?🙂
Well said ,Graham ,and well done to Michael Portillo for interviewing you. ♥️👍👏.Who would ever have thought that ,out of all the political parties in the UK ,even ex politicians , the Tories would be the only ones who as much as attempted to protect women and children. Shame on the rest of them.💔😭😈
Graham, my 90 year old mum also loves Portillo's railway show, and has no interest in trains either. Incidentally, one of her nicknames is Mrs Doyle. Great to see you getting on these shows - about time.
Aw bless your mum. Sometimes I find it strangely watchable... 🤣
Years ago, Portillo took up a challenge to live on an Unemployment level of income for a week: I think he was quite affected by it.
I've been saying LIN- A HAN for years...have I being getting it wrong?!
Me too! My mother is from Ireland and she says the same, Lin a Han, when a reference to Father Ted comes up. Which is often… Have we all been saying it wrong??
No, you're right 🤣🤣
No, you're right!
Good to see we're all on the right track 👍