Who would you like to see come out as GC?

Andy Murray

Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders

Richard Osman

Katherine Grainger

Anas Sarwar (bringing the rest of Scottish Labour with him)

I hope Scarlett Johansson might be GC - based on nothing but her getting fired from that 'trans' film by TRAs, the fact she sued Disney so doesn't really care much for toeing the line and also she isn't bothered about having the 'correct' opinions.

Saying that she's probably got pronouns on insta so what do I know.

And I definitely think John Waters has to be. He has to BE.

The twits of Twitter are upset by this thread. Bless their hearts.

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I’d like Caroline Quentin to be GC but I wouldn’t be surprised if she was TWAW

Ian Hislop I bet is GC

HorseInTheHouse
Weirdly, a significant number of the aggressive kind of atheist (you know the type) are all in on gender ideology. I used to think the same as you, but now I think some people just like feeling superior and haranguing people. It's not always a sign of scepticism and critical thinking, that's for sure.

Urgh you're right, the "trendy science"/skepticism types who tend to misogyny and bandwagon-leaping. But as you say I don't think Stephen Fry is quite like that, he seems a genuinely thinking person, if not exactly a feminist.

Brian Cox is in the middle of all that popular science trend stuff yet he must have conversations with Gia about it too, so I can't imagine he hasn't thought it through.

It's fascinating to see who will either stand up to question a baseless, misogynist and homophobic ideology, or more quietly not go along with it, and who just laps it up (or cynically co-opts it). With acquaintances, colleagues etc as well as public figures.

Ugh! I didn't know that about Richard Herring. He stood up (I think) for Jerry Sadowitz. I'm astonished about the atheists who have swallowed the GI guff. I'd like to see the clownfish woman, Alice Roberts...?

It's weird, I'm reluctant to nominate women because of the crap that women who actually have done this (Macy Gray, Bette Midler) have endured. Even as a thought experiment, I don't want to put anyone through that.

That said, AOC and the woman in charge of New Zealand.

just remembered i saw or read something by Emma Thompson where she was gushing about the various gender identities- I honestly don't think she's much of a thinker!

Steve coogan and Emma Thompson will jump on any bandwagon for woke cookies- no chance there

Kathy Burke, maybe? hard to get a read on her- she's usually so straightforward, but disappointingly quiet on this I think (unlike lovely James Dreyfus)

Julian Clary (I know, not female!) is surely sharp enough to get it?

French and Saunders- two clever ladies

PS Can I add a dishonorable mention? Not a woman, so a complete derail, but Richard Herring- I happened to see him slyly chucking Glinner under the bus on twitter- just to earn a bit of credit with his followers- something like "there, I've done it, I've blocked him, feel so much better", to rounds of "well done", "brave man" etc. I just found that particular incident so utterly craven. He could have quietly blocked, but no, he had to let his followers know what a noble man he is. Ugh!! There's a special place in hell for these smug, middle-aged wokebros. In the meantime, we see you.

Brilliant!

I think Su Perkins definitely is. I remember her mentioning on a podcast that she has wondered if she had born later whether as a not particularly girly girl she would have been encouraged to go down the trans route.

Jess Philips
Millie Bobby Brown
Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Kemi Badenoch totally is! Haven't got the link but her interaction with Caroline Noakes in parliament is fantastic. Will try to find the link for you

Grace Dent
Sue Perkins
Florence Pugh
Kemi Badenoch

Another one for Caitlin Moran

Yes, the silence is deafening. I don't criticise her for not being more direct, I'm too afraid to out myself just yet. Maybe one day she will but she's so vocal about other women's issues I'll let her off! 😉

I second Billy Eilish. She’s pretty awesome, sensible head on her shoulders and when she spoke out about the harms of porn, young people listened. She has over 100 million followers on Instagram.

I’d say Taylor Swift would have the same impact on her 220 million Instagram followers, but she doesn’t seem to be intellectually equal to Eilish.

Oooh a Black Mirror episode would be so good!

I really want Angelina Jolie to speak out. I can imagine she's protecting shiloh though, like a good mother should.

Madonna. But although I would hope she wouldn't give a fuck about a TRA pile on, I think she really really does.

And I would really love some of my pals to speak up a bit more, they will agree with me in private but say nothing when I am getting a pasting on social media from mutuals.

Same with work colleagues. I work in a skool and know most teachers agree with me. But there are posters up everywhere celebrating Sam Smith and elliot page, a dozen non binary students, two trans staff and a poster up describing a lesbian as a non- woman attracted to a non- woman.

Well NZR is speaking at FiLiA.

Oh wow, hadn't seen that. Fantastic!

I constantly read some of these stories in a Charlie Brooker Screenwipe end of days kind of style. I would love him to do something GC, it would just be awesome. I don't know his views but I can't see how he wouldn't be GC.

His wife's likes were policed by TRAs and they didn't approve of who she was following. There is no way he doesn't see through this shit. I'd like to hope he's keeping his powder dry.

Basically I think anyone who hasn't spoken out in support of the T, which is the easy option to score the points, is probably GC on some level.

Agree with this. I try not to harangue these people as I recognise this. Hopefully they will speak up when they are ready.