Andrew Doyle is a writer and anti-transgender activist who created the Titania McGrath character, a satire of social justice warriors.
Background
Doyle was born in Derry, Northern Ireland and grew up Catholic. Doyle cearned a bachelor’s degree at Aberystwyth University, a master’s degree at University of York, and a doctorate from University of Oxford.
Doyle co-wrote satiric news reporter Jonathan Pie and has published two books as Titania McGrath: Woke: A Guide to Social Justice (2019) and My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism (2020).
Doyle joined GB News in 2021 as host of Free Speech Nation.
Anti-trans activism
UnHerd published an overview of Doyle’s anti-transgender views, which center on the “gay erasure” conspiracy theory that claims trans people are a plot to eliminate gay people like Doyle:
certain Left-leaning activists are doing their utmost to advance a social constructionist view of both sex and gender. The result has been a curious theoretical alliance between gender ideologues â for whom outmoded stereotypes are taken to signify an authentic self â and traditionalists who similarly feel that male and female behaviour ought to be strictly defined.
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In her new book Time to Think, Hannah Barnes has revealed that between 80-90% of adolescents who were referred to the Tavistock paediatric gender clinic were same-sex attracted. Other writers, such as Helen Joyce, have already drawn on studies that confirm a strong correlation between gender non-conformity in youth and homosexuality in adult life. Members of the staff at the Tavistock itself joked that soon âthere would be no gay people leftâ and whistle-blowers revealed that homophobia was endemic.
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It is significant that activists who insist that stereotypes of male and female behaviour are suggestive of an innate âgender identityâ should also seek to deny the reality of sexual dimorphism. The view that sex is a âspectrumâ has even infiltrated major academic literature, including the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.
The End of Woke
In 2025, Doyle published The End of Woke: How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution. Doyle discusses the anti-trans movement and takes issue with accusations of misogyny:
The accusations of misogyny were particularly bizarre given that over the past few years I have covered the rising threats to womenâs rights on my show with a tenacity that has been notably absent in other media outlets. Every week on my show I have invited women to appear, including Helen Joyce, Maya Forstater, Jo Phoenix, Julie Bindel, Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, Milli Hill, Kellie-Jay Keen, Dr Jane Clare Jones, Jo Bartosch, Mara Yamauchi, Lisa Keogh, Holly Lawford-Smith, Sarah Phillimore, Nadine Strossen, Carol Decker, Kate Coleman, Joan Smith, Baroness Claire Fox, Rosie Kay, Marion Calder, Emma Hilton, Stella OâMalley, Judy Glenney, Moira Deeming, Yasmine Mohammed, Kara Danksy [sic], Sall Grover, Denise Fahmy, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Sharron Davies.
Doyle also discusses the rift in “gender critical” activism:
The writer and psychotherapist Stella OâMalley has also been on the receiving end of intense vitriol from this small unrepresentative faction. She has recently decried the âlunatic fringe of the GC movementâ who âhave become what they first sought to fight againstâ. As she writes: âThere have been way too many people who had important perspectives to offer and who were mercilessly bullied â and sometimes shamed into silence. I think of Jane Clare Jones, Jenny Watson, Laura Becker, Shannon Thrace, Ali Ceesay, Janice Turner, Sarah Phillimore, Exulansic, Helen Pluckrose, Christina Buttons, Colin Wright, Andrew Gold, Fionne Orlander, Debbie Hayton, Miranda Yardley, Kristina Harrison, Buck Angel, Claire Graham, Graham Linehan, James Esses, Benjamin Boyce, Clive Simpson, Mike Bailey, Phil Illy, James Cantor, Ken Zucker, Ray Blanchard, Billboard Chris, Genspect, LGB Alliance, Kathleen Stock, Julie Bindel, Womenâs Place UK, Judith Green, Labour Womenâs Declaration, Fair Play for Women, Aaron Tyrrell [sic], Aaron Kimberly, GD Alliance, Corinna Cohn, and, of course, myself and hundreds more that Iâve missed or forgotten about.â
References
Doyle, Andrew (March 24, 2022). Have we reached peak trans? UnHerd https://unherd.com/2022/03/have-we-reached-peak-trans/
Doyle, Andrew (February 19, 2023). JK Rowling is NOT a transphobe, says Andrew Doyle. GBNews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sPytU-qgq8
Doyle, Andrew (January 29, 2023). Nicola Sturgeon ‘not being honest’ over transgender bill, Andrew Doyle says. GBNews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxTy5ZXMN1U
Doyle, Andrew (March 20, 2022). Andrew Doyle on trans debate: If murderers get upset about being misgendered my sympathy is limited. GBNews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW5TuawAjig
Doyle, Andrew (March 1, 2023). The gender wars started in 1531. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2023/03/the-gender-wars-started-in-1531/
Books
Doyle, Andrew (2026). The End of Woke: How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution. Constable, ISBN 978-1408723968
Doyle, Andrew (2022) The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
Doyle, Andrew (2021) Free Speech and Why It Matters
Doyle, Andrew (2020) Titania McGrath’s: My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism
Doyle, Andrew (2019) Titania McGrath’s Woke: A Guide to Social Justice
(Doyle, Andrew 2017) Jonathan Pie: Off the Record
Resources
Andrew Doyle (andrewdoyle.co.uk)
Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
X/Twitter (x.com)