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What is in the water this week?! Glinner now making a mockery of the cause

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RobynMiller · 24/04/2026 17:06

I know I know I should just get off twitter but this week is just back to back GC news and not in a good way.

If you haven't seen, Glinner posted a video mocking Green Leader Zack Polanski, understandable plenty of material for a comedy writer there, but the video is so unhinged and unfunny.

Some speculating Graham was drunk when he made it but it's been 24 hours and he's left it up so maybe not.

I feel like we are finally gaining real ground in this fight and this makes GCs look like a bunch of lunatics.

I know there is no formal hierarchy but like it or not, for better and worse, we do have public faces and 'spokespeople' for this fight and this is just embarrassing.

I just feel so helpless because there can't be any accountability for this kind of thing but my God.

Thanks for listening to my rant, just been a very frustrating week.

Video here: https://x.com/Glinner/status/2047187374699126873?s=20

Graham Linehan (@Glinner) on X

Green Party broadcast

https://x.com/Glinner/status/2047187374699126873?s=20

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Namingbaba · 29/04/2026 15:09

Lottapianos · 24/04/2026 17:42

I watched his interview on Triggernometry a few months ago and it seems he's now pro Trump and thinks that the US is the greatest place on Earth. It was a very strange watch

This is the problem with so many people. They hate being politically homeless so end up adopting all these other beliefs they never had before to belong somewhere.

TeiTetua · 29/04/2026 15:07

People in this thread seem to have forgotten about Graham Linehan very quickly, but just by coincidence at this moment, this thread supposedly about him is placed next to "Roisin Murphy in the Times". And in the Times article, there's this:
"Graham Linehan ‘vindicated’
Murphy was joined at the Westminster event by Jewish musicians who told of being cancelled and Mark Tughan, the head of a chain of stand-up venues, known as the Glee Club, who spoke of the comedy sector’s brushes with cancel culture.
Speaking in support of the Father Ted creator Graham Linehan, who has repeatedly spoken of how he was cancelled over his gender-critical views, Tughan said: “The man has been vindicated a thousand times over.
“It’s a source of regret, to me at least, that some of his peers in our industry still can’t seem to find the strength to acknowledge any regret for the way he was treated.”

I hope it gives him some comfort to know that there are people who haven't turned on him, and who are willing to speak out about the way he was treated.

SabrinaThwaite · 29/04/2026 10:11

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 29/04/2026 02:46

Because cis women are asking how they're going to be checked as female. It's certainly going to happen more to women in sport as a result of the way terfs have treated women like Imane Khelif.

As for genital focus - have you seen this forum? The number of posts discussing children's intimate body parts, trans women's vaginas and trans women's dicks, jfc.

Not much on their humanity, safety, ability to do what they want with their own bodies or the difference between trans people in real life & porn though.

Oh, Khelif eh? Great case in point.

Khelif the athlete that won’t take a cheek swab because he knows that’s he’s a male DSD athlete. He’s already admitted that he has XY chromosomes and male levels of testosterone.

But yes it’s brilliant that Khelif cheating his way to a women’s Olympic medal finally pushed the IOC into finally protecting the female category at the Olympics.

And it’s a simple cheek swab test, which is a lot less intrusive than the anti doping tests that elite athletes undertake.

5128gap · 29/04/2026 07:27

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 29/04/2026 03:09

I'm.afraid my trans son is regularly mistaken for a cis man - including in medical settings. You will have walked past trans people your whole life and not noticed.

The 'we can always tell' is just more recycled homophobia. When I was at school, this was commonplace - lesbians beinh supposedly identifiable by the 'masculine' way they moved, spoke and behaved.

Parkrun is a fun run for all abilities, and it's been stated several times that competitive people spoil it for everyone else. All that policing appearance will do is encourage violence against any woman deemed not feminine enough.

Parkrun is also supposed to be a place where women can get away from people judging their appearance.

There are very few trans women, and few of them run. And they are of varying ages. The idea they're craving to beat cis women at ambling round a park is ludicrous.

Elite cis female runners will always outrun amateur trans women in any case - especially if the transition was medical.

Are you aware that cis women excel at endurance events in general? They hold records over cis men in a lot of disciplines, including mountain running. The current Munroe champion is a cis woman.

What this focus on removing trans women from anything to do with cis women does, ultimately, is reinforce the myth that mediocre men will.always beat the strongest of us. It's not true, and totally demeans the achievements of cis female athletes.

It's also a total gift for the far right, and for every violent man who wants to pretend he's our saviour.

I don't want to be saved from a trans woman running with a buggy in a park, and do not care about the chromosomes of a woman judging sandwiches next to me. I want equality, fairness, and an end to cis men being paternalistic c**ts to us.

Of course it's possible to casually pass a trans person and not notice they are not their bilogical sex if they've done enough to conceal their naturally occurring physical sex identifiers. And yes, TM can often do this more successfully, as can young people.

I didn't say 'you can always tell'. You've changed my factual statement that it's almost impossible to hide all ones naturally occurring physical sex identifiers in a situation where sex is scrutinised; (a fact widely acknowledged by the trans community who often suffer much angst about this) to a statement you feel comfortable arguing with.

Changing my statement gives you an in to create a false equivalence with homophobia, on the very flimsy basis that some homophobes said 'we can always tell' about gay people.
When claiming that social behaviour and personality traits are reliable indicators of sexuality is entirely different from claiming to be able to look at a human being and identify their sex from their physical bodies. (Note, I'm not talking about being able to tell sex from assumed behaviour and appearance, like clothes and mannerisms. I'm GC and don't believe in stereotypes. I'm talking about physical features)

As for park run, while I agree with you it's a shame if something fun is overtaken by competition, this is something of a straw man given this isn't the point at issue. The point is whether TW should be treated as women in activities and spaces specifically designated for women. I believe not, as where an activity is designated for women, somewhere it has been decided that sex matters, and TW are not of the female sex. Argue by all means that there's no need for sex separation in PR or other activities where you claim males have no advantage, but that's an entirely difficult argument from one that advocates for some males to be exceptions.

Acknowledging the physical difference between men and women is not a gift to the far right or to violent men. In the case of the latter it is absolutely crucial to our protection from them. Failing to acknowledge it leads us into very dangerous MRA and VAWG apologist territory. Men denying their physical advantage and claiming reciprocal victim status is a popular defence already. Denying our greater risk of harm facilitates this.

As for the far right, pretending there are no physical differences between the sexes and that some men are women is what's been the gift to them. Because when left wing people say these things, the right use it as examples we are stupid, base our views on feelings not facts, are extremists and lunatics, and create an atmosphere of mistrust of the left in general.

I'm left wing, and my priorities are addressing class and wealth inequality, anti racism and the progression of womens rights. The fact that the people I'd expect to be prioritising those things alongside me have become diverted from the greater good to focus disproportionately on the rights of a subset of males is incredibly frustrating to me.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 29/04/2026 07:14

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 29/04/2026 02:46

Because cis women are asking how they're going to be checked as female. It's certainly going to happen more to women in sport as a result of the way terfs have treated women like Imane Khelif.

As for genital focus - have you seen this forum? The number of posts discussing children's intimate body parts, trans women's vaginas and trans women's dicks, jfc.

Not much on their humanity, safety, ability to do what they want with their own bodies or the difference between trans people in real life & porn though.

Women and men have managed forever to separate themselves into men and women for changing rooms etc. Everyone respectfully followed the social contract with few issues.
A cheek swab necessary for a sex test means swabbing inside the mouth. You do realise it's not a bum cheek so no need to fret about being near genitals? 😀It happens once in an athlete's career. For the sake of your blood pressure I'd suggest you don't look up drug testing protocols in sport. 😂

Outside of the Conception, pregnancy and health related boards, the posts I see talking about children's bodies on this board are generally commenting on the nature of the brutal experimental surgery being sold to young people from dodgy medics? This is important information for parents as often they're not aware of what's being sold to children by dodgy online sources.

It maybe that posting from a different time zone you see different posts? This board does at times attract the attention of an unfortunate group of men who like to issue threats, post porn and other offensive images and launch into tirades against women seeking to protect women's rights and safeguard children - the early hours are often their preferred time to post.

It would of course be a serious case of DARVO to suggest that women should be banned from speaking about the brutal double mastectomies etc being sold to our vulnerable young people. The women I know on here will never be silenced from safeguarding our and other people's children by such bad faith arguments.

Wearenotborg · 29/04/2026 05:52

Datun · 29/04/2026 05:48

I don't want to be saved from a trans woman running with a buggy in a park, and do not care about the chromosomes of a woman judging sandwiches next to me

😆 what does this even mean?

I am confused though. How come the transwoman is running with a buggy and the woman is being judgy? I mean,thst seems rather misogynistic to me and I think that @TransParentlyAnnoyed is getting confused. Women don’t judge the sandwiches.

Datun · 29/04/2026 05:48

I don't want to be saved from a trans woman running with a buggy in a park, and do not care about the chromosomes of a woman judging sandwiches next to me

😆 what does this even mean?

Wearenotborg · 29/04/2026 05:47

Datun · 29/04/2026 05:44

We're back to fashioning Matterhorns.

I’m back to pointing and laughing at the lies and batshittery of the TRA. I was gonna do well thought out arguments but this poster especially is not worthy. I do recognise the posting style though 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Datun · 29/04/2026 05:44

Wearenotborg · 29/04/2026 05:40

this poster seems rather.. er….. excited by genital inspections. Maybe they should step away from pornhub for a bit and antibac their keyboard and wash their socks.

We're back to fashioning Matterhorns.

Datun · 29/04/2026 05:43

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 29/04/2026 03:09

I'm.afraid my trans son is regularly mistaken for a cis man - including in medical settings. You will have walked past trans people your whole life and not noticed.

The 'we can always tell' is just more recycled homophobia. When I was at school, this was commonplace - lesbians beinh supposedly identifiable by the 'masculine' way they moved, spoke and behaved.

Parkrun is a fun run for all abilities, and it's been stated several times that competitive people spoil it for everyone else. All that policing appearance will do is encourage violence against any woman deemed not feminine enough.

Parkrun is also supposed to be a place where women can get away from people judging their appearance.

There are very few trans women, and few of them run. And they are of varying ages. The idea they're craving to beat cis women at ambling round a park is ludicrous.

Elite cis female runners will always outrun amateur trans women in any case - especially if the transition was medical.

Are you aware that cis women excel at endurance events in general? They hold records over cis men in a lot of disciplines, including mountain running. The current Munroe champion is a cis woman.

What this focus on removing trans women from anything to do with cis women does, ultimately, is reinforce the myth that mediocre men will.always beat the strongest of us. It's not true, and totally demeans the achievements of cis female athletes.

It's also a total gift for the far right, and for every violent man who wants to pretend he's our saviour.

I don't want to be saved from a trans woman running with a buggy in a park, and do not care about the chromosomes of a woman judging sandwiches next to me. I want equality, fairness, and an end to cis men being paternalistic c**ts to us.

I'm.afraid my trans son is regularly mistaken for a cis man - including in medical settings.

Lol

This is the 'trans son' who walks around looking exactly like a woman, in a dress and make up, and who a few weeks ago wasn't even trans.

Blimey.

Wearenotborg · 29/04/2026 05:40

Datun · 29/04/2026 05:38

Jeez, again. It's like a disease.

this poster seems rather.. er….. excited by genital inspections. Maybe they should step away from pornhub for a bit and antibac their keyboard and wash their socks.

Datun · 29/04/2026 05:38

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 29/04/2026 02:46

Because cis women are asking how they're going to be checked as female. It's certainly going to happen more to women in sport as a result of the way terfs have treated women like Imane Khelif.

As for genital focus - have you seen this forum? The number of posts discussing children's intimate body parts, trans women's vaginas and trans women's dicks, jfc.

Not much on their humanity, safety, ability to do what they want with their own bodies or the difference between trans people in real life & porn though.

Jeez, again. It's like a disease.

Wearenotborg · 29/04/2026 05:22

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 29/04/2026 03:09

I'm.afraid my trans son is regularly mistaken for a cis man - including in medical settings. You will have walked past trans people your whole life and not noticed.

The 'we can always tell' is just more recycled homophobia. When I was at school, this was commonplace - lesbians beinh supposedly identifiable by the 'masculine' way they moved, spoke and behaved.

Parkrun is a fun run for all abilities, and it's been stated several times that competitive people spoil it for everyone else. All that policing appearance will do is encourage violence against any woman deemed not feminine enough.

Parkrun is also supposed to be a place where women can get away from people judging their appearance.

There are very few trans women, and few of them run. And they are of varying ages. The idea they're craving to beat cis women at ambling round a park is ludicrous.

Elite cis female runners will always outrun amateur trans women in any case - especially if the transition was medical.

Are you aware that cis women excel at endurance events in general? They hold records over cis men in a lot of disciplines, including mountain running. The current Munroe champion is a cis woman.

What this focus on removing trans women from anything to do with cis women does, ultimately, is reinforce the myth that mediocre men will.always beat the strongest of us. It's not true, and totally demeans the achievements of cis female athletes.

It's also a total gift for the far right, and for every violent man who wants to pretend he's our saviour.

I don't want to be saved from a trans woman running with a buggy in a park, and do not care about the chromosomes of a woman judging sandwiches next to me. I want equality, fairness, and an end to cis men being paternalistic c**ts to us.

Well tell men to stop appropriating womanhood then. So hold on, I thought you said your son wore makeup and skirts and was a young teen. So how can she be seen as a man. Do try keeping your story straight.

ItsNotOrwell · 29/04/2026 04:26

TheAutumnCrow · 28/04/2026 13:57

But am I so wrong that I must be IN THE RIGHT WING PIPELINE?

Have I ever mentioned ‘right wing pipeline’ at all? Why mention it?

ItsNotOrwell · 29/04/2026 04:24

SionnachRuadh · 28/04/2026 12:27

I am not interested in your bad faith assertions that you want to have a conversation about my opinions. No, your entire approach is that I will say your magic words or you will denounce me.

Please stop badgering me. I do not wish to engage.

Such irony.

Heggettypeg · 29/04/2026 03:29

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 29/04/2026 03:09

I'm.afraid my trans son is regularly mistaken for a cis man - including in medical settings. You will have walked past trans people your whole life and not noticed.

The 'we can always tell' is just more recycled homophobia. When I was at school, this was commonplace - lesbians beinh supposedly identifiable by the 'masculine' way they moved, spoke and behaved.

Parkrun is a fun run for all abilities, and it's been stated several times that competitive people spoil it for everyone else. All that policing appearance will do is encourage violence against any woman deemed not feminine enough.

Parkrun is also supposed to be a place where women can get away from people judging their appearance.

There are very few trans women, and few of them run. And they are of varying ages. The idea they're craving to beat cis women at ambling round a park is ludicrous.

Elite cis female runners will always outrun amateur trans women in any case - especially if the transition was medical.

Are you aware that cis women excel at endurance events in general? They hold records over cis men in a lot of disciplines, including mountain running. The current Munroe champion is a cis woman.

What this focus on removing trans women from anything to do with cis women does, ultimately, is reinforce the myth that mediocre men will.always beat the strongest of us. It's not true, and totally demeans the achievements of cis female athletes.

It's also a total gift for the far right, and for every violent man who wants to pretend he's our saviour.

I don't want to be saved from a trans woman running with a buggy in a park, and do not care about the chromosomes of a woman judging sandwiches next to me. I want equality, fairness, and an end to cis men being paternalistic c**ts to us.

As a piece of paternalistic c*ntery, claiming to actually be one of the people you are oppressing takes a lot of beating.

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 29/04/2026 03:09

5128gap · 28/04/2026 06:24

You'd think that if a group of people were explicitly told an activity was for a group that didn't include them they would self exclude and join the group that did include them.
If more policing was required than trusting the integrity of the runners, registration could require biological sex with ID.
It may not prevent the most determined people from misrepresenting their sex, but there's quite a step from turning up 'as a woman' knowing that even when it's obvious people will say nothing because you're allowed to be in the group, and risking the dysphoria of being clocked and challenged in a group you've been told is sex based and for women.
The idea the only way to tell women from TW is via genital inspection is a hyperbolic, rather creepy and deluded TRA myth.
Its vanishingly rare for a woman to have a complete absence of sex identifiers so that she is mistaken for a man in a situation where sex is scrutinised. The most women get is very occasionally being mistaken at first glance. This is nothing like the often spoken of TW experience of needing to worry about 'passing', because they don't have any naturally occurring female identifiers, and have had to try to replicate them, with varying levels of success.
And yes of course sex is judged on appearance. But not whether the person has a pony tail, make up or pink trainers. It's judged on body size, shape, facial structure, gait and voice. Naturally occurring sex identifiers that its extremely rare to be able conceal or emulate convincingly.

I'm.afraid my trans son is regularly mistaken for a cis man - including in medical settings. You will have walked past trans people your whole life and not noticed.

The 'we can always tell' is just more recycled homophobia. When I was at school, this was commonplace - lesbians beinh supposedly identifiable by the 'masculine' way they moved, spoke and behaved.

Parkrun is a fun run for all abilities, and it's been stated several times that competitive people spoil it for everyone else. All that policing appearance will do is encourage violence against any woman deemed not feminine enough.

Parkrun is also supposed to be a place where women can get away from people judging their appearance.

There are very few trans women, and few of them run. And they are of varying ages. The idea they're craving to beat cis women at ambling round a park is ludicrous.

Elite cis female runners will always outrun amateur trans women in any case - especially if the transition was medical.

Are you aware that cis women excel at endurance events in general? They hold records over cis men in a lot of disciplines, including mountain running. The current Munroe champion is a cis woman.

What this focus on removing trans women from anything to do with cis women does, ultimately, is reinforce the myth that mediocre men will.always beat the strongest of us. It's not true, and totally demeans the achievements of cis female athletes.

It's also a total gift for the far right, and for every violent man who wants to pretend he's our saviour.

I don't want to be saved from a trans woman running with a buggy in a park, and do not care about the chromosomes of a woman judging sandwiches next to me. I want equality, fairness, and an end to cis men being paternalistic c**ts to us.

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 29/04/2026 02:46

MrsOvertonsWindow · 28/04/2026 09:15

Presumably because that would require levels of self control, understanding & complying with society's laws and regulations and respecting that others have rights?

It seems that the above are sadly absent in the lives of those determined to breach boundaries and trample over the rights of others.

And yes - what is this obsession with genital checks? Society managed single sex spaces for ever and then suddenly there's these repeatedly creepy mentions of genital checks from those obsessed with gender identity. It's like 5 years olds and poo jokes. Very odd.

Because cis women are asking how they're going to be checked as female. It's certainly going to happen more to women in sport as a result of the way terfs have treated women like Imane Khelif.

As for genital focus - have you seen this forum? The number of posts discussing children's intimate body parts, trans women's vaginas and trans women's dicks, jfc.

Not much on their humanity, safety, ability to do what they want with their own bodies or the difference between trans people in real life & porn though.

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 29/04/2026 00:03

Wearenotborg · 28/04/2026 05:42

Because there is no counter argument to your batshittery. All that is left is to mock you. Sorry bud.

Well done admitting defeat hun.

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 28/04/2026 23:55

TWETMIRF · 28/04/2026 13:05

Well we know that numerous transwomen enjoy filming themselves wanking in women's toilets and putting it online. Maybe they just want to help women to see that it's not a problem to let others see your genitals and that's what women do?

Maybe you shouldn't confuse porn with real people?

Just a suggestion. Jfc.

Wearenotborg · 28/04/2026 17:16

Bobbymoore123 · 28/04/2026 11:34

"there is no counter argument" there it is people, everything else is a gross and unnecessary ad hominem.

So you admit that poster was talking batshit. Good to know. Next time, try reading before trying to make a “clever” remark. It might help you look less of a tit.

TheAutumnCrow · 28/04/2026 14:02

TWETMIRF · 28/04/2026 13:05

Well we know that numerous transwomen enjoy filming themselves wanking in women's toilets and putting it online. Maybe they just want to help women to see that it's not a problem to let others see your genitals and that's what women do?

Why do these particular muppets think that their DNA is solely in their genitals anyway? Why don’t they know anything about Deoxyribonucleic acid?

TheAutumnCrow · 28/04/2026 13:57

ItsNotOrwell · 28/04/2026 11:06

I’m sorry? Are we back to ‘everyone who disagrees with me must be a man’ shtick? I’ve been defending women and girls on this thread, so this is annoying more than usual.

But am I so wrong that I must be IN THE RIGHT WING PIPELINE?

TWETMIRF · 28/04/2026 13:05

borntobequiet · 28/04/2026 09:56

“Genital inspections” such an exciting notion for some.

Well we know that numerous transwomen enjoy filming themselves wanking in women's toilets and putting it online. Maybe they just want to help women to see that it's not a problem to let others see your genitals and that's what women do?

Seriestwo · 28/04/2026 12:39

Can we do “forehead inspections” instead of genital ones?

”sir, at a glance you’re cromagnon - OUT”