Graham Linehan Says Undoing the “Damage” of the Trans Movement Will Take Decades

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Graham Linehan Says Undoing the “Damage” of the Trans Movement Will Take Decades

 

For Graham Linehan, the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the legal definition of a woman was more than just a legal milestone—it marked the culmination of a personal and public battle that had cost him his career, his reputation, and even parts of his personal life. As the co-creator of Father Ted and The IT Crowd, Linehan once stood at the heart of British comedy. Now, years after becoming one of the most vocal critics of the transgender rights movement, he stood in the public gallery, witnessing a moment he believed signified a long-awaited return to biological reality.

 

 

 

“You could feel a crackle around the room,” Linehan recalled of the moment when Lord Hodge invoked biological sex in the Court’s ruling. “It was a lovely thing to experience. And then, as soon as the judges left, the whole place just broke out in applause.” For Linehan, who had been ostracized for expressing the same views, it felt like vindication.

 

After the ruling, he emerged into Parliament Square to the cheers of supporters—many of them women who had campaigned alongside him for sex-based rights. “It was,” he said the next day from a friend’s home, “one of the nicest things that’s ever happened to me.” A headline the following morning read: “Trans women are not women”—the very phrase that once got him banned from Twitter, a move he believes further damaged his standing in the industry. “To see it on a newspaper headline — it felt like reality was breaking out.”

 

He celebrated modestly with fellow activists, including Venice Allan, known for campaigning against trans women’s access to female-only spaces like the Ladies’ Pond on Hampstead Heath. Though jet-lagged from travel back from the United States, where he is in the process of relocating, Linehan was unable to sleep. By midday, blurry-eyed but alert on a Zoom call, his mind remained focused on the judgment and what it represented.

 

He likened the ruling’s clarity to a much-needed antidote to what he sees as the confusing and ideologically charged language that has dominated the trans debate. “‘Trans woman’ means man and ‘trans man’ means woman,” he explained. “That kind of oppositional language has been a major weapon for trans activists. They used language in such a way that people felt they were on unsteady ground. They couldn’t argue their points. The language was just so corrupted.”

 

Drawing a controversial parallel, Linehan compared the rise in transgender identification—particularly among young girls—to the surge in anorexia cases following singer Karen Carpenter’s death in the 1980s. “It just spread like wildfire,” he said. “I think that the trans movement for young girls has been a kind of anorexia 2.0.” But unlike anorexia, which was treated as a mental health issue, he argued that with gender dysphoria society took the opposite approach. “In the Seventies and Eighties people were rightly saying, ‘No, you’re not fat.’ But with the trans issue, the whole of society was saying the equivalent of, ‘Yes, you are fat. It’s a problem.’ Everyone was saying this, from celebrities to the NHS. And that’s the difference. And, of course, the internet spread it like Covid.”

 

According to Linehan, it has taken ten years just to begin to reclaim a sense of balance around women’s rights. “It’s going to take decades to undo the damage,” he warned. While he believes the battle to preserve single-sex spaces—such as public toilets, changing rooms, and women’s sports—may have largely been won, the damage to young people who took gender-altering hormones is long-lasting. “The toll on the health of biological girls and boys will persist,” he said.

 

He predicts fewer people will now be fired for holding gender-critical views, but he’s less optimistic about cultural institutions. “The pro-trans bias will persist in the television, theatre, and publishing industries because those areas are heavily captured,” he said.

 

Asked whether he feels sympathy for trans individuals who underwent irreversible treatments only to now see their gender recognition certificates rendered obsolete, Linehan paused. “Well, I guess so,” he said. “But it’s just one of those things that should never have happened in the first place.” While he expressed empathy for those who were misled, he made his deeper anger clear. “I do have sympathy for them but I don’t have sympathy for the people who lied to them. They’re the ones who I really, really hate.”

 

 

Adpated by ASEAN Now from The Times  2025-04-21

 

 

[JonnyF]

The damage could be undone very quickly with a sane government and a non politicized justice system.

 

Alas, this is the UK. 

[mfd101]

Think back to the 60s, the 70s, the 80s and on and on ... Fashions come & go, sometimes with remarkable speed.

 

Mostly they're harmless, just foolish. Others however ...

[JonnyF]

5 minutes ago, mfd101 said:

Think back to the 60s, the 70s, the 80s and on and on ... Fashions come & go, sometimes with remarkable speed.

 

Mostly they're harmless, just foolish. Others however ...

 

True, although I don't think you can compare a dodgy pair of flares and a floral shirt with men raping women in women's prisons, or beating them up in a boxing ring at the Olympics. 

[jippytum]

  The court verdict was a major step.  It now prevents these sexual misfits and their woke supporters cheating in sports  and wanting the world to adopt their version of sexual  interpretation. 

[FlorC]

Is there any money (and personel) left for mental institutions ?

 

Then again , there is a higher suicide rate among trans "people" .

The problem may die out over time.

[WDSmart]

I'm not from the UK, but this type of attitude is rampant in the USA, my home country, also.

What these people just won't accept is that there are NOT just two biological genders. EVERYONE, including the reader of this post and me, is somewhere on a scale between the extreme opposites of "male" and "female." No one has only the hormonal and chromosomes associated with "male" or "female." Everyone has a mix of these. Some have such a mix that they end up being "trans." Some people are even born with a mix of physical characteristics (penis/vulva), although that is rare, it does occur sometimes.

This mix has always been part of human (and all animal) makeup, so a declaration by some officials will not erase it.

[BusyB]

The Thais seem to deal with it far more graciously I think  ... they call it 'the Third Gender' don't they? Doesn't seem to cause any real problems (except on Beach Road at night).

 

[riclag]

Somebody wrote a song about they/them remember! it describes how 

A small minority of mixed up, bobbled up , shook up world( people).

The sad part is the drugs they/ them consume in their lifetimes to perpetuate the fallacy.

40 minutes ago, FlorC said:

Is there any money (and personel) left for mental institutions ?

 

Then again , there is a higher suicide rate among trans "people" .

The problem may die out over time.

 

[MalcolmB]

Well it looks like things are returning to the old normal. It was only in the last few decades that homosexuals have been free to buggerise each other.

Perhaps they will be next. 
I suggest they lay low.

[MalcolmB]

34 minutes ago, WDSmart said:

Some people are even born with a mix of physical characteristics (penis/vulva),

That gives the expression “Go F yourself” a new meaning.

[Will B Good]

 

 

What a strange man, and even stranger hill to choose upon which to die. 

[Peabody]

6 hours ago, JonnyF said:

 

True, although I don't think you can compare a dodgy pair of flares and a floral shirt with men raping women in women's prisons, or beating them up in a boxing ring at the Olympics. 

Got any cases that support your claims?

[BangkokReady]

51 minutes ago, BusyB said:

The Thais seem to deal with it far more graciously I think  ... they call it 'the Third Gender' don't they? Doesn't seem to cause any real problems (except on Beach Road at night).

 

Thais tend not to need active external validation.  In the West, it's more about making other people treat someone a certain way, in order for them to feel validated.

[BangkokReady]

6 hours ago, JonnyF said:

6 hours ago, mfd101 said:

Think back to the 60s, the 70s, the 80s and on and on ... Fashions come & go, sometimes with remarkable speed.

 

Mostly they're harmless, just foolish. Others however ...

 

True, although I don't think you can compare a dodgy pair of flares and a floral shirt with men raping women in women's prisons, or beating them up in a boxing ring at the Olympics. 

 

Instead of a photo with a now humorous hair do, it's someone having had their breasts removed.  😓

[Jimjim1]

34 minutes ago, WDSmart said:

This mix has always been part of human (and all animal) makeup, so a declaration by some officials will not erase it.

There is a saying that goes like this > man born to man will live forever < so until this is proven I will not accept that trans women are or ever can be women, they are chicks with dicks and even chopping it off will not change this, they are still males who dress as females and there the similarity ends, they are still incapable of childbirth.

 

If homosexuality is the way you are then I am happy for you but I take offence when marriage between man and woman is denigrated by a sham marriage between man and man or woman and woman.

 

Homosexuals have won the right to be recognised as that, and rightly so, but it does not give them the right to force any aspect of there lifestyle upon those of us who value the act of marriage between man and woman and the act of procreation that is held within it.

 

Wokery must stop and reality must prevail, Homosexuals won the right to be recognised because Heterosexuals saw the unfairness that prevailed within their community and did not oppose the changes in laws but now it has been taken it to far and shows total disrespect for those who are on your side.

[JonnyF]

4 minutes ago, Peabody said:

Got any cases that support your claims?

 

Yes.

 

You can google this FOI request below and download the Word document. 

 

 

 

[WDSmart]

6 minutes ago, Jimjim1 said:

There is a saying that goes like this > man born to man will live forever < so until this is proven I will not accept that trans women are or ever can be women, they are chicks with dicks and even chopping it off will not change this, they are still males who dress as females and there the similarity ends, they are still incapable of childbirth.
WDSmart: Well that saying is obvously wrong, no man or woman or even trans "will live forever." And I don't know why you are so fearful of transwomen. And many women are incapable of childbirth. Would you want to include only mothers as "real women"? 

 

If homosexuality is the way you are then I am happy for you but I take offence when marriage between man and woman is denigrated by a sham marriage between man and man or woman and woman.
WDSmart: I am not homsexual or trans, but if two people love each other, I do not oppose them joining together for life.

 

Homosexuals have won the right to be recognised as that, and rightly so, but it does not give them the right to force any aspect of there lifestyle upon those of us who value the act of marriage between man and woman and the act of procreation that is held within it.
WDSmart: I agree with the first half of your sentence above, but not the second half. If you don't think homosexuals have the right ot "force any aspect of there (sic) lifestyle upon those of us who vale the act of marriage between man and womean...", then why do you think you have the right to force any aspect of your lifestyle on them?

 

Wokery must stop and reality must prevail, Homosexuals won the right to be recognised because Heterosexuals saw the unfairness that prevailed within their community and did not oppose the changes in laws but now it has been taken it to far and shows total disrespect for those who are on your side.
WDSmart. "Wokery" is reality. It is the acceptance of reality, not the rejection of anything you don't agree with. You pretend to be accepting of homosexuals, but only if they "stay in their  place." Equal rights are rights equal for all, not greater for some than for others. I hope that just as the society and laws have slowly at least partially recognized homesexuals, that evolution will soon apply to trans people also. Then "wokeness" will also start to finally prevail. 

 

[Peabody]

9 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

Yes.

 

You can google this FOI request below and download the Word document. 

 

 

 

So, 6 whole assaults (not rapes) and no boxing data?

[BangkokReady]

51 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

1 hour ago, Peabody said:

Got any cases that support your claims?

 

Yes.

 

You can google this FOI request below and download the Word document. 

 

It's incredible the way the pro-trans people are in complete denial of the truth.

[impulse]

1 hour ago, riclag said:

The sad part is the drugs they/ them consume in their lifetimes to perpetuate the fallacy.

 

I wonder if anyone has calculated the costs of the health care they'll need over their lifetime, whether or not they change their mind later.

 

[Snackbar]

Respect & gratitude GL

 

Dine & dash bro f’em

[Jimjim1]

2 hours ago, WDSmart said:

WDSmart: Well that saying is obvously wrong, no man or woman or even trans "will live forever." And I don't know why you are so fearful of transwomen. And many women are incapable of childbirth. Would you want to include only mothers as "real women"? 

Yet again the text has not been read properly

I did not at any time state or imply that I was fearful of trans women because I am not, there is no such thing as a trans woman because they cannot be woman in the true sense, what they are is males with a problem of identity and wokery has made trans fashionable causing certain types to think as if they are women but for every one who gets his bits chopped off 20 do not because they know there is no 100% certain way back.

Likewise I clearly stated that I was not again Homosexuality because I am not, if that is the way some people are then enjoy it, I do not see the attraction in any way shape or form because I am 100% Heterosexual but it does not preclude me from accepting them as people with a different way of life than me.

 

It might be a good exercise for you to go back and read slowly and correctly my earlier post because right now the SMART in your username appears to be somewhat lacking

[Sir Dude]

One of the most sensible and righteous court judgements for decades... trouble is, Starmer and his far-left government are alreadly planning to undermine it. Funny how 99.9% of the public agree with the court, but the lefty and green politicians are struggling to even make a statement, even the PM is silent. Just shows what contempt they hold everyone in other than their little tiny echo chamber. They should all be forced to resign for contempt of court and of what the public wants. They are going to have an awful day at the May 1 local elections... can't wait.

[Will B Good]

5 minutes ago, Sir Dude said:

One of the most sensible and righteous court judgements for decades... trouble is, Starmer and his far-left government are alreadly planning to undermine it. Funny how 99.9% of the public agree with the court, but the lefty and green politicians are struggling to even make a statement, even the PM is silent. Just shows what contempt they hold everyone in other than their little tiny echo chamber. They should all be forced to resign for contempt of court and of what the public wants. They are going to have an awful day at the May 1 local elections... can't wait.

Starmer and his far-left government are alreadly (sic) planning to undermine it.

 

How?

[soalbundy]

4 hours ago, BusyB said:

The Thais seem to deal with it far more graciously I think  ... they call it 'the Third Gender' don't they? Doesn't seem to cause any real problems (except on Beach Road at night).

 

There's the difference, 'third gender', katoys don't insist you regard them as real women, they know what they are.

[JonnyF]

3 hours ago, Peabody said:

So, 6 whole assaults (not rapes) and no boxing data?

 

You asked for evidence so I provided it. How many examples did you need?

 

Around 8% of cases in that period were by trans women despte them being less than a fraction of a percent of the female prison population.

 

I'd imagine you'd change your tune if your daughter was sexually assaulted a whole 6 times by a bloke in a skirt while in protective custody.

 

Then again maybe you wouldn't. 

 

[Peabody]

42 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

You asked for evidence so I provided it. How many examples did you need?

 

Around 8% of cases in that period were by trans women despte them being less than a fraction of a percent of the female prison population.

 

I'd imagine you'd change your tune if your daughter was sexually assaulted a whole 6 times by a bloke in a skirt while in protective custody.

 

Then again maybe you wouldn't. 

 

6 cases over 4 years, not exactly an epidemic.

Free math help: 6/97 = ~6%

[WDSmart]

I wasn't able to post on the forum regarding the Pope's death. It had been closed to comments by the time I saw it. If I had, I'd have posted something like this:

In accordance with DEI, when electing a new pope, serious consideration should be given to female and Black candidates. And, if the cardinals really wanted to include DEI, they could even consider a trans woman! 😮