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Lionel Shriver is an American writer and anti-transgender activist.

Background

Shriver was born on May 18, 1957 in Gastonia, North Carolina. Shriver is a self-described tomboy who grew up with an older and a younger sibling. Shriver took social transition steps as a minor, including a name change at 15. Shriver earned a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College and a master’s degree from Columbia University. Shriver has written eight novels and has been a columnist.

Anti-trans activism

Shriver frequently logrolls for other anti-trans activists and appears on conservative media outlets:

“Western media has moved on to an enthrallment with transgenderism bizarrely out of proportion to the statistical rarity of true gender dysphoria—though children and people generally being so suggestible, the condition will doubtless grow more common.”

Shriver was signatory on a 2020 Sunday Times open letter defending anti-trans extremist J.K. Rowling.

Shriver praised trans eliminationist Helen Joyce’s book Trans: “Reasonable, methodical, sane, and utterly unintimidated by extremist orthodoxy, Trans is a riveting read.”

Via Washington Post:

Writing about transgender people either sends her down slippery-slope thinking — “We seem to be entering an era in which everything about ourselves that we don’t like is subject to revision” — or infantile cracks about pronouns and LGBTQ+ culture. (“A three-year-old bashing the keyboard would produce a more functional shorthand.”)

From a Times profile:

Shriver is “mystified” by the way in which the transgender debate has become so fraught, with death threats to writers and MPs. “The transgender thing just seems to make people completely crazy,” she says. “I just don’t think that what sex you are is that important. My sense of myself is not crucially female.”

As a teenager Shriver changed her name from Margaret Ann to Lionel because she was determined not to be eclipsed by her elder brother. “Women are supposed to be soft and nurturing and pliable and driven to please and looking out for others. Men are strong and determined, and goal driven and powerful. If you look at the stereotypes, anyone with any self-respect would want to be a man. I reject the stereotypes . . . I’m all for chucking them and one of my biggest problems with the transgender movement is it’s all about nailing them down.”

References

Harvey, Chris (April 3, 2024). Lionel Shriver: ‘Transgenderism is a social mania.’ The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/lionel-shriver-mania-interview-transgenderism/

Wootton, Dan (May 3, 2022). Has it become trendy to be trans? Uncancelled / GBNews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB_jMq8hoUk

Shriver, Lionel (April 27, 2023). Is trans the new anorexia? UnHerd https://unherd.com/2023/04/is-trans-the-new-anorexia/

Athitakis, Mark (September 20, 2022). Lionel Shriver taunts the ‘culture police’ and more in her new book. Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/09/20/lionel-shriver-taunts-culture-police-more-her-new-book/

Sylvester, Rachel (September 10 2022) Lionel Shriver: ‘Which sex you are isn’t that important.’ The Times (London) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lionel-shriver-which-sex-you-are-isnt-that-important-8vq8m0cwd

Shriver, Lionel (August 6, 2021). Trans purity test has lost touch with reality. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trans-purity-test-has-lost-touch-with-reality-qw5vkzmtp

Shriver, Lionel (September 15, 2018). One discouraging word and you’re a transphobe. The Spectator https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/one-discouraging-word-and-you-re-a-transphobe/

Shriver, Lionel (April 21, 2016). Gender – good for nothing. Prospect https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/gender-good-for-nothing https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/48719/gendergood-for-nothing

Resources

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

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IMDb (imdb.com)

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Meghan Murphy is a Canadian writer and anti-transgender activist. Murphy’s projects Feminist Current and The Same Drugs are key anti-transgender resources.

Background

Meghan Emily Murphy was born November 30, 1978 and grew up in Vancouver. Murphy’s family was reportedly “not just left, but most left.” Murphy’s parents were a Marxist labour activist who served as a shop steward at Canada Post and a feminist who worked in arts administration. Murphy has a sibling.

Murphy said, “I have left the left because I don’t wish to be part of a cult.”

Rejecting femininity was fine, except that it developed into a disdain for “wives” and “mothers” who had predictively and passively capitulated to the patriarchy, choosing mundane lives for reasons I could not possibly imagine.

Murphy says this rightward political trajectory felt like being excommunicated:

The left disavowed me long ago for insisting that pornography and prostitution was not an empowering choice sexually liberated women make for fun and wealth, then again for understanding that penises are male and girls who cut their hair short and replace pink frilly dresses with bowler hats and mismatched high top converse are not “non-binary” or “trans” or “boys,” but simply little girls who don’t want to play by old-fashioned rules.

References

Murphy, Meghan (April 22, 2015). Laverne Cox’s objectified body ’empowers’ no one. Feminist Current https://www.feministcurrent.com/2015/04/22/laverne-coxs-objectified-body-empowers-no-one/ [archive]

Bindel, Julie (October 9, 2015). No platform: my exclusion proves this is an anti-feminist crusade. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/09/no-platform-universities-julie-bindel-exclusion-anti-feminist-crusade [archive]

Greer, Darryl (November 3, 2016). Writer Quits Rabble Over Pulled Blog. Canadaland http://www.canadalandshow.com/writer-quits-rabble/ [archive]

Signatories (May 11, 2015). Open letter to rabble.ca – Support Meghan Murphy suffered a misogynist campaign by the sex industry lobby. Sisyphe.org [archive]

Statement on review of Meghan Murphy petitions. rabble.ca. May 14, 2015. [archive]

Murphy, Meghan (September 7, 2016). Are we women or are we menstruators? Feminist Current https://www.feministcurrent.com/2016/09/07/are-we-women-or-are-we-menstruators/ [archive]

Murphy, Meghan (October 21, 2016). Hi friends. Just an overdue update. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/meghanemilymurphy/posts/10153849501632343 [archive]

Murphy, Meghan (June 21, 2017). Why a women-only spa in Toronto should not change its policy to accept trans women. CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/women-only-spa-counterpoint-1.4170158 [archive]

(March 20, 2018). Interchange – Sex Politics: Meghan Murphy and the Feminist Current. WFHB. https://wfhb.org/news/interchange-sex-politics-meghan-murphy-and-the-feminist-current/ [archive]

Authenticity & empathy: Meghan Murphy. Woman’s Place UK (WPUK). https://womansplaceuk.org/2019/05/28/meghan-murphy-authenticity-empathy/ May 20, 2019. [archive]

Murphy, Meghan (July 22, 2019). The Yaniv scandal is the end-product of trans activism. The Spectator. [archive]

CTV Vancouver (January 11, 2019). Trans advocates rally against controversial feminist speaker Meghan Murphy. CTV News. [archive]

Meghan Murphy Presents a Feminist Case Against Bill C-16 on YouTube

The Standing Senate Committee On Legal and Constitutional Affairs – Evidence. Senate of Canada. Parliament of Canada. May 10, 2017. [archive]

Legal and Constitutional Affairs – Meeting Detail. Senate of Canada. Parliament of Canada. May 10, 2017. [archive]

Tasker, John Paul (May 12, 2017). Transgender rights bill threatens ‘female-born’ women’s spaces, activists say. CBC News. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. [archive]

Robertson, Dylan C (May 30, 2017). Senate committee rejects motion to narrow trans bill’s scope. Daily Xtra. [archive]

Twitter-ban feminist defends transgender views ahead of Holyrood meeting. BBC News. May 22, 2019. [archive]

Sitwell, Ros (May 24, 2019). Hundreds of women gather in London to discuss sex and gender. Morning Star. [archive]

Meghan Murphy: Canadian feminist’s trans talk sparks uproar”. BBC News. October 30, 2019. [archive]

Wells, Georgia (February 11, 2019). Writer Sues Twitter Over Ban for Criticizing Transgender People. The Wall Street Journal. [archive]

Prengel, Kate (November 24, 2018). Meghan Murphy: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know. Heavy. [archive]

Robertson, Julia Diana (November 27, 2018). Twitter Bans Meghan Murphy, Founder of Canada’s Leading Feminist Website. AfterEllen [archive]

Brean, Joseph (February 12, 2019). ‘Yeeeah it’s him’: Vancouver writer sues Twitter over its rule against misgendering trans people. National Post [archive]

Brean, Joseph (October 29, 2019). Meghan Murphy, the woman behind trans wars breaking out at the public library. National Post [archive]

Matt, Naham (February 12, 2019). Feminist Writer Sues Twitter After She Tweets ‘Men Aren’t Women’ and Gets Banned. Law & Crime [archive]

Fry, Madeline (July 10, 2019). This journalist lost her lawsuit against Twitter for banning her account, but she’s not giving up. Washington Examiner [archive]

Davis, Wendy (June 13, 2019). Twitter Defeats Lawsuit By Journalist Banned For ‘Misgendering’. Digital News Daily. MediaPost [archive]

Grant, Melissa Gira (November 22, 2022). Elon Musk’s Anti-Trans Twitter Regime. The New Republic

Binder, Matt (November 22, 2022). Elon Musk is reinstating banned Twitter accounts. Here’s who’s back. Mashable

Compton, Julie (January 14, 2019). ‘Pro-lesbian’ or ‘trans-exclusionary’? Old animosities boil into public view. NBC News. [archive]

Hoard, KC (October 29, 2019). Hundreds protest controversial Toronto Public Library event featuring Meghan Murphy. The Globe and Mail. [archive]

Wadhwani, Ashley (July 23, 2019). Vancouver Public Library banned from Pride parade after allowing controversial speaker. Surrey Now-Leader. [archive]

Ritchie, Kevin (October 18, 2019). Toronto Public Library facing Pride ban over Meghan Murphy event. NOW. [archive]

Rider, David (October 17, 2019). John Tory ‘disappointed’ Toronto library allowing event with writer accused of being anti-transgender. Toronto Star. [archive]

Resources

Meghan Murphy (meghanmurphy.ca)

Substack (substack.com)

meghanmurphy.substack.com

Feminist Current (feministcurrent.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

MeghanEMurphy

Hadley Freeman is an American-British journalist best known for manipulating notable authors into making statements about trans issues that they later must disavow. Freeman’s interviews with Margaret Atwood and Judy Blume both required the authors to issue statements.

Background

Hadley Clare Freeman was born May 15, 1978 in New York City. As an adolescent, Freeman was hospitalized several times for self-imposed food restrictions. Freeman read English literature at St Anne’s College, Oxford.

Freeman wrote for The Guardian starting in 2000 and is a contributor of anti-trans publication UnHerd.

Freeman and sports writer Andy Bull have three children.

References

Mack, Daniel (April 17, 2023). Judy Blume Blasted An Article Linking Her To J.K. Rowling’s Anti-Trans Views As “Bullshit.” BuzzFeed News https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/judy-blume-transgender-jk-rowling-hadley-freeman

Milton, Josh (February 19, 2022). ‘Gender critical’ journalist tries to grill Margaret Atwood on trans rights. It backfires, badly. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/02/19/margaret-atwood-hadley-freeman-trans-gender-critical/

Levin, Sam; Chalabi, Mona; Siddiqui, Sabrina (2 November 2018). Why we take issue with the Guardian‘s stance on trans rights in the UK. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/02/guardian-editorial-response-transgender-rights-uk

Persio, Sofia Lotto (3 November 2018). Guardian US journalists denounce newspaper’s “transphobic” editorial. PinkNews https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/11/03/guardian-transphobic-editorial-concern/

Hansford, Amelia (20 January 2023). Journalist Hadley Freeman condemned for ‘dangerous’ comments about suicidal trans kids. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/01/10/hadley-freeman-suicidal-trans-youth/

Valens, Ana (2 April 2018). There’s nothing feminist about attacking trans women. The Daily Dot https://www.dailydot.com/irl/attacking-trans-women-feminist/

Ewens, Hannah (16 June 2020). Inside the Great British TERF War. Vice https://www.vice.com/en/article/889qe5/trans-rights-uk-debate-terfs

Freeman, Hadley (26 June 2021). People have told me I’m on the wrong side of history, but I still want to be their friend. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/26/people-have-told-me-i-am-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-but-i-still-want-to-be-their-friend

Singh, Anita (5 December 2022). Hadley Freeman: ‘Atmosphere of fear’ governs Guardian trans coverage. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/05/hadley-freeman-atmosphere-fear-governs-guardian-trans-coverage/

Resources

Books

The Meaning of Sunglasses: And a Guide to Almost All Things Fashionable (2008)
Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies (2013)
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don’t Learn Them from Movies Anymore) (2016)
House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family (2020)
Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia (2023)

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

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The Guardian (theguardian.com)

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New Statesman (newstatesman.com)

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X/Twitter (x.com)

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Journalisted (journalisted.com)

Hadley Freeman [archive]

UnHerd (unherd.com)

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Julie Bindel is a British author and anti-transgender activist.

References

About Julie Bindel

Grew, Tony (7 November 2008). Celebs split over trans protest at Stonewall Awards. PinkNews https://web.archive.org/web/20110629093225/http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9523.html

Burns, Christine (23 November 2004). Transsexual People and the Press: Collected Opinions from Transsexual People Themselves (PDF). https://web.archive.org/web/20100927062232/http://pfc.org.uk/files/Transsexual_People_and_the_Press.pdf Press for Change. p. 10. [archive]

McNab, Claire Re: UK: Gender benders, beware. The Guardian https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20061116120000/http://www.pfc.org.uk/pfclists/news-arc/2004q1/msg00061.htm

Denham, Jess (17 September 2013). Death threats force feminist campaigner out of university debate. The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/death-threats-force-feminist-campaigner-out-of-university-debate-8821362.html

Mayes, Ian (14 February 2004). A change, of course. The Guardian.https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/feb/14/pressandpublishing.comment

Minou, C. L. (1 February 2010). Julie Bindel’s dangerous transphobia. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/feb/01/julie-bindel-transphobia

Ardehali, Rod (14 October 2015). ‘Stepford student’ culture threatening free speech. The Daily Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/student-life/11930441/Stepford-student-culture-threatening-free-speech.html

Faye, Sean (19 February 2016). If you don’t like no-platforming, maybe it’s you who’s the ‘special snowflake’. The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-you-dont-like-no-platforming-maybe-its-you-whos-the-special-snowflake-a6884026.html

By Julie Bindel

Bindel, Julie (14 March 2007). An end to gender. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/mar/14/juliebindel

Bindel, Julie (31 January 2004). Gender benders, beware. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jan/31/gender.weekend7

Bindel, Julie (1 August 2007). My trans mission. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/aug/01/mytransmission

Bindel, Julie (2008). 2008 Statement from Julie Bindel. Idge of Reason https://idgeofreason.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/2008-statement-from-julie-bindel/

Bindel, Julie (8 October 2008). It’s not me. It’s you. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/nov/08/lesbianism

Resources

Julie Bindel (thejuliebindel.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

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Substack (substack.com)

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Justice for Women (justiceforwomen.org.uk)

The Guardian (theguardian.com)

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New Statesman (newstatesman.com)

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Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

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The Spectator is a British newsmagazine that publishes consistently anti-trans content.

For the conservative American publication, see The American Spectator.

Background

The Spectator has been published since 1828.

Contributors (UK)

Julie Bindel
Julie Burchill
Stephen Daisley
Jay Elwes
Naomi Firsht
Rosa Freedman
Jamie Gillies
Debbie Hayton
Dan Hitchens
Cerys Howell
Madeleine Kearns
James Kirkup
Holly Lawford-Smith
Graham Linehan
Melanie McDonagh
Charles Moore
Suzanne Moore
Brendan O’Neill
Jo Phoenix
Damian Reilly
Kunwar Khuldune Shahid
Lionel Shriver
Dot Wordsworth

Contributors (US)

Amber Athey
Casey Chalk
Cockburn
Michael Warren Davis
“Katherine Dee”
Paul Du Quenoy
Mary Harrington
Debbie Hayton
Stephen L. Miller
Teresa Mull
Marc Oestreich
Gilbert T. Sewall
Abigail Shrier
Jesse Singal
Slavoj Zizek

References

Resources

The Spectator (spectator.co.uk)

The Spectator World (thespectator.com)

The Post Millennial is a conservative Canadian publication with consistently anti-transgender coverage.

Background

The Post Millennial was founded in 2017 by Matthew Azrieli and Ali Taghva. In May 2022, The Post Millennial was acquired by Human Events Media Group, which also owns Human Events, an American conservative news website.

Contributors

Christina Buttons
Katie Daviscourt
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
Libby Emmons
Chad Felix Greene
Sara Higdon
Ari Hoffman
Mia (Ashton) Hughes
Jarryd Jaeger
Nick Monroe
Andy Ngo
Hannah Nightingale
Yaakov Pollak
Olivia Rondeau
Alex Timothy
Roberto Wakerell-Cruz
Joshua Young

References

Silverman, Craig; Lytvynenko, Jane; Boutilier, Alex; Oved, Marco (26 July 2019). A Set of Facebook Pages Promoting Conservatives and Attacking Trudeau Are Run by a Post Millennial Staffer. BuzzFeed News https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/post-millennial-facebook-network-liberty-now

Yates, Jeff; Rogers, Kaleigh (13 August 2019). Canadian News Site The Post Millennial Blurs Line Between Journalism and Conservative ‘Pamphleteering’. CBC News

The Post Millennial acquired by Human Events Media Group to form ‘new media powerhouse.’ The Post Millennial

Holt, Jared (10 September 2020). The Post Millennial: The Latest Canadian Outlet Serving Rage Bait to Far-Right America. Right Wing Watch

McIntosh, Emma (22 August 2019). He Used to Work for a Site That Promoted Racists – Now He Edits a Canadian News Outlet. National Observer

Resources

The Post Millennial (thepostmillennial.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

TPostMillennial

Nina Paley is an American animator and anti-transgender extremist.

Paley is involved in the free culture and “gender critical” movements.

Background

Nina Carolyn Paley was born May 3, 1968 in Urbana, Illinois. Paley’s parent Hiram Paley was a mathematician.

Paley graduated from University High School in 1986 and attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for two years before dropping out.

Paley began publishing comics at a young age before moving into animation in 2002 following a divorce.

Paley directed the animated features Sita Sings the Blues (2008) and Seder-Masochism (2018). After having many problems navigating legal clearance for music recorded in the 1920s by Annette Hanshaw, Paley got involved in the free culture movement. Paley releases work under a copyleft license and has created work supporting intellectual property reform.

Paley has been active in debates about overpopulation and has done work for the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.

Anti-trans activism

Paley identifies as gender critical and has made a number of controversial comments about gender identity and expression.

In 2020, Paley was one of 58 signatories to an open letter defending author and anti-transgender activist J.K. Rowling. A number of the signatories have been involved in gender critical activism.

In 2021, Paley and Corinna Cohn started the podcast Heterodorx to discuss gender controversies. In 2023 Paley created a set of playing cards featuring extremists and outliers in recent gender controversies.

References

Merli, Melissa (May 18, 2008). First movie ‘a full-time job’ for Uni High grad, illustrator. The News-Gazette http://www.news-gazette.com/living/2008-05-18/first-movie-full-time-job-uni-high-grad-illustrator.html

Merli, Melissa (October 21, 2012). Studio Visit: Nina Paley. The News-Gazette http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2012-10-21/studio-visit-nina-paley.html

Merli, Melissa (June 13, 2013). Urbana artist Paley putting quilt art on display. The News-Gazette http://www.news-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/local/2013-06-13/urbana-artist-paley-putting-quilt-art-display.html

Merli, Melissa (August 10, 2014). Paley’s ‘This Land Is Mine’ a viral hit. The News-Gazette http://www.news-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/local/2014-08-10/paleys-land-mine-film-viral-hit.html

Ramanathan, Lavanya (September 25, 2008). An Ancient Tale, Newly Animated. The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092404245.html

Scott, A.O. (December 24, 2009). Legendary Breakups: Good (Animated) Women Done Wrong in India. The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/25/movies/25sita.html

Bell, Melissa (April 6, 2012). Online leaders look to create offline experiences. The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/2012/04/05/gIQAUH5E0S_story.html

Dey, Jim (May 7, 2019). Furor over gender issues puts Urbana artist’s film in crosshairs. The News-Gazette https://www.news-gazette.com/news/jim-dey-furor-over-gender-issues-puts-urbana-artists-film-in-crosshairs/article_5a620967-c4dd-5b70-b86d-5729e2097134.html

Hellen, Nicholas (September 27, 2020). Literati rally to JK Rowling’s defence in row over Cormoran Strike book. The Sunday Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/literati-rally-to-jk-rowlings-defence-in-row-over-cormoran-strike-book-vk5frvvj0

Resources

Nina Paley (ninapaley.com)

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

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Rod Dreher is a conservative American author who frequently publishes anti-transgender articles.

Background

Raymond Oliver Dreher, Jr. was born February 14, 1967 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His father was a leader in the Ku Klux Klan and was involved in local politics through those connections.

Dreher earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Louisiana State University in 1989.

Dreher was a media critic for The Washington Times and New York Post before becoming an editor for the National Review.

The American Conservative

Dreher was a contributor to The American Conservative from 2008 to 2023. Dreher’s salary was covered by Howard Ahmanson, Jr., and his work had no editorial oversight.

According to Vanity Fair, the arrangement began to unravel in 2021, when Dreher published a vivid description of a Black elementary school classmate’s uncircumcised penis: “All us boys wanted to stare at his primitive root wiener when we were at the urinal during recess, because it was monstrous.” Two years later, Ahmanson had enough:

Some of Dreher’s commentary on the gay and transgender communities also proved off-putting to Ahmanson, such as his lurid musings on anal sex, rectal bleeding, and the “partially rotted off” nose of a gay man who contracted monkeypox. “At some point, he basically decided, ‘This is too weird,’” the source, paraphrasing Ahmanson, explained to me. “‘I don’t want to read this or pay for this anymore.’”

Dreher advocates for what he calls the “Benedict Option,” where conservative Christians segregate from sex and gender minorities via intentional communities.

Anti-transgender writings

The Guardian described Dreher as “a man who appears to view fomenting transgender panic more as a vocation than a job.”

Articles include:

The Coming Storm Over Trans ‘Tuskegee Experiment’
How GOP Helped Big Trans Conquer South Dakota
Trans Tyranny: The Dangerous New Phase
Building Trans America
The Cost Of Waging World War Trans
Trans Propaganda, Blue And Red
Trans Totalitarianism: Time For Moral Panic
This Diabolical Moment

References

Ecarma, Caleb (March 10, 2023). How Rod Dreher’s blog got a little “too weird” for The American Conservative. Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/rod-dreher-blog-weird-american-conservative

Wilson, Jason (July 28, 2017). ‘Biology is not bigotry’: conservative writers react to ban on trans troops. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/28/conservative-writers-trump-transgender-troops-ban-military-writing

Dreher, Rod (October 4, 2021). Gary Shteyngart’s ‘gentile region.’ The American Conservative https://www.theamericanconservative.com/gary-shteyngart-circumcision-gentile-region/

), known as ,[1] is an American writer and editor living in a self-imposed exile[2] in Budapest, Hungary. He was a columnist with The American Conservative for 12 years, ending in March 2023, and remains an editor-at-large there.[3] He is also author of several books, including How Dante Can Save Your Life, The Benedict Option, and Live Not by Lies. He has written about religion, politics, film, and culture in National Review and National Review Online, The Weekly Standard, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications.

He was a film reviewer for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and chief film critic for the New York Post. His commentaries have been broadcast on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, and he has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Court TV, and other television networks.[4]

Resources

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

Rod Dreher

Books

Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, Gun-Loving Organic Gardeners, Evangelical Free-Range Farmers, Hip Homeschooling Mamas, Right-Wing Nature Lovers, and Their Diverse Tribe of Countercultural Conservatives Plan to Save America (Or at Least the Republican Party) (2006)
The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life (2013)
How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History’s Greatest Poem (2015)
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (2017)
Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents (2020)

Kate Coleman is an anti-transgender sex segregationist in the UK who runs the Keep Prisons Single Sex website. Coleman’s primary focus is the Gender Recognition Act and how transgender prisoners are housed.

Background

Coleman was born in September 1971. Coleman’s graduate work was done at King’s College London and University College London. Coleman’s academic work was in the division of psychiatry at the Centre for Behavioural and Social Sciences in Medicine under the supervision of Simon Dein, and:

examines the experiences of providing palliative care services to the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Stamford Hill, North London.

This research builds on her MSc research, conducted at the Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, King’s College London.

Coleman’s full name is Catharine Victoria Helen Coleman-Brueckheimer, since marrying telco executive Simon Daniel Brueckheimer. The two were officers in Synectyx Ltd.

2018 statement to Parliament

Written submission from Dr Catharine Coleman (EEA0206)

At present women and girls, as a sex, are a protected class. If self-ID becomes law, and it becomes possible for any male to legally become a woman, the status of women and girls as a protected class according to sex becomes impossible to maintain. Women and girls are vulnerable and require protection under the EA due to biological sex, not any vague notions of ‘gender identity’ – it is the material reality of biological sex that is the issue, not one’s identity as a consideration separate from sex. Pertinent issues include: Domestic violence refuges, prisons, hospital wards to name but a few. The status of women and girls as a protected class according to biological sex should not be put at risk.

October 2018

Website

Coleman created the Keep Prisons Single Sex website in 2020. Coleman is assisted in this work by Rob Brailsford and Beverley Dale (bev13thdisciple).

References

Written submission from Dr Catharine Coleman (EEA0206) -https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/95839/pdf/

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FOI requests: Kate Coleman

Graham Linehan is an Irish comedy writer and anti-transgender extremist.

Background

Linehan was born May 22, 1968 in Dublin. Linehan’s initial career was as a comedy writer. Linehan helped create and write on shows including Father Ted, Black Books, The IT Crowd, Count Arthur Strong, Brass Eye, and The Fast Show.

Anti-transgender activism

Linehan became an anti-transgender activist after the 2008 The IT Crowd episode “The Speech” was criticized as transphobic. Channel 4 pulled the episode from their streaming service in 2020, infuriating Linehan.

Linehan’s subsequent fixation on trans people led to the end of both Linehan’s comedy career and marriage. A review of Linehan’s 2023 book Tough Crowd summarizes “the extremity of Linehan’s rhetoric”:

In my view, and that of his critics, some of his online remarks have been plainly and unapologetically transphobic: Linehan has characterised the trans rights movement as “paedophilic” and called trans activists and allies “groomers”. It’s true enough that his former life is in tatters: the controversies led to the end of his marriage, the abandonment of a planned, lucrative Father Ted musical, and his agent dropping him.

[…] Often, Linehan paints trans women as predators, men looking to insinuate themselves into women’s spaces in order to assault them with greater ease. When convenient, they are made out to be victims, brainwashed and exploited young queer people who are convinced to “mutilate” their bodies in the name of ideology.

[…] To an extent, the book’s very existence disputes the pretence of Linehan to have been deplatformed. If Linehan had siloed his anti-trans views somewhat, rather than warp them into a life-consuming vocation, his once-glittering TV career might well have remained intact to this day.
Chilton (2023)

The Mess We’re In

Linehan started an interview show in 2020 that frequently has conservative, gender critical, and anti-transgender guests.

For the full episode list with guests, see The Mess We’re In.

References

Chilton, Louis (October 13. 2023). The problems with Graham Linehan’s memoir Tough Crowd. The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/graham-linehan-tough-crowd-book-trans-b2428578.html

Brown, Lee (March 17, 2023). ‘Father Ted’ creator Graham Linehan blames trans war for ending his marriage. New York Post https://nypost.com/2023/03/17/father-ted-creator-trans-war-left-me-broke-and-single/

NSW Liberal candidate likens anti-trans activism to opposing the Holocaust. The Guardian. 14 April 2022.

Andrews, Penny (20 November 2020). Choose your fighter: Loyalty and fandom in the free speech culture wars. Manchester University Press. p. 259. ISBN 978-1-5261-5255-8. – via www.manchesterhive.com. …inviting anti-trans voices such as Graham Linehan or Kathleen Stock on to programmes or to write articles…

Harassers Use Substack Sign-Ups to Spam Trans People and Allies. The Observer. 20 April 2021.

Burns, Katelyn (19 December 2019). J. K. Rowling’s transphobia is a product of British culture. Vox.

Horbury, Ezra; Yao, Christine (1 August 2020). Empire and Eugenics: Trans Studies in the UK (PDF). Transgender Studies Quarterly. 3 (7): 445–454. doi:10.1215/23289252-8553104 [archive] This online transphobia has been spearheaded by former comedy writer Graham Linehan…

Dalwood, Charlotte (6 January 2022). The alt-internet of anti-trans activists. rabble.ca. [archive]

The GOP ‘grooming’ smear is sparking a new wave of anti-LGBT+ violence. The Independent. 14 April 2022.

Moore, Sam (25 October 2021). “Matt Berry comments on ‘transphobic’ IT Crowd episode”. The Independent. [archive]

Krol, Charlotte (9 October 2020). “Channel 4 pulls IT Crowd episode over transphobic content”. NME. [archive]

Clute, Emily (18 April 2021). “The IT Crowd: The Controversial Episode that Killed the Hit Comedy Series”. Screenrant. [archive]

Falvey, Deirdre (21 January 2019). “Graham Linehan: Trans activists ‘don’t realise the damage’ they do”. The Irish Times. [archive]

Haugh, Ben (18 December 2019). “Father Ted creator Linehan creates own social network to defy Twitter after transgender row”. The Times. [archive]

Blackall, Molly (27 June 2020). “Twitter closes Graham Linehan account after trans comment”. The Guardian. [archive]

Gabbatiss, Josh (7 July 2018). “London Pride: Anti-trans activists disrupt parade by lying down in the street to protest ‘lesbian erasure'”. The Independent. London. [archive]

Murphy, Sandra (22 January 2019). “How Graham Linehan went from national treasure to divisive figure for trans community”. extra.ie. [archive]

Lyons, Izzy (7 October 2018). “Transgender lawyer launches UK’s first ‘deadnaming’ case against Father Ted writer Graham Linehan”. The Telegraph [archive]

Coyle, Colin (7 October 2018). “Father Ted writer Graham Linehan warned by police after ‘trolling’ transgender activist”. The Sunday Times [archive]

Halliday, Josh (7 October 2018). “Graham Linehan given police warning after complaint by transgender activist”. The Guardian [archive]

Father Ted writer given harassment warning. 7 October 2018. [archive]

Derrick Jensen and Graham Linehan (9 December 2018). Resistance Radio – Guest: Graham Linehan (Podcast). Podbean. The opposition is so extreme and so frightening that eventually everyone is asking you to stop. My feeling is that I can’t, because it’s too important. It’s too important to the women in my life and it’s too important to me. I’m now in a position where I can answer the question honestly of, if you were around at the time of something terrible happening like Nazism, or whatever it happened to be, would you be one of the people who said “no, this is wrong”, despite being opposed? I feel happy in myself that I’ve been one of the people standing up and saying “no, this is wrong”, despite everyone telling me not to do it.

Father Ted writer Graham Linehan compares the trans movement to Nazism. iNews [archive]

Graham Linehan Under Fire for Comparing Trans Activism to Nazism. Attitude [archive]

Father Ted creator Graham Linehan on trans rights. Newsnight BBC [archive]

The UK’s Holocaust memorial boss condemns Graham Linehan for comparing trans healthcare to Nazi experiments. MSN 14 [archive]

David Davies ‘welcomes’ Big Lottery Fund’s ‘review’ of grant to transgender charity. Talkradio [archive]

Statement: Outcome of our review into Mermaids UK grant. National Lottery Community Fund [archive]

Asarch, Steven (20 January 2019). Twitch stream pulls in $250,000 for Mermaids charity featuring Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Owen Jones and more. Newsweek [archive]

Gamer Hbomberguy hands funding row charity Donkey Kong boost. BBC News [archive]

NSPCC employee who hired Munroe Bergdorf gets homophobic abuse. PinkNews [archive]

Hozier and Father Ted creator Graham Linehan join Twitter row over JK Rowling comments. Irish Independent [archive]

Wakefield, Lily (1 December 2020). Disgraced comedy writer Graham Linehan, booted from Twitter for hateful conduct, returns with fake ‘trans guy’ account. PinkNews. [archive]

Wakefield, Lily (3 December 2020). Disgraced comedy writer Graham Linehan boasts he’s back on Twitter with a ‘new sim card’ after being kicked off for a second time. PinkNews. [archive]