When I posted this late last night, I had only really skim read the article as it is quite long.
But was puzzled by some of it, like was the writer trying to be too "balanced", or ... so have found other comments about it interesting.
I mainly posted because without diminishing what many others have lost, what Glinner has lost is more than live changing and mostly in the public eye.
“I thought this would be over in a few months and someone would step in. I really did think as soon as people heard what’s been happening to children, all my friends, satirists, comedians, progressives, people who marched against the Iraq war, lesbians, gay men, they’d all come rushing to my aid.
“And no one turned up. Just no one turned up. All I got was dirty looks, people ghosting me. I joke that I used to know no one from real life, only people from the media. Now I know no one in the media and I’m friends with social workers and doctors and the Tavistock whistleblowers.”
And also picking up some of the implied attitudes of the writer of this article, I wonder if it isn't only because so many have accepted (stayed quiet about) the trans takeover, particularly in the media, but whether not just other men, but people cant accept a man taking up women's issues. That somehow the Stonewalling has been so effective that many people now think it is only older white women who care. And again as the writer implies, why would you (particularly a man) give up a job in the media for women('s rights).
And another element, which I hope I can write without upsetting anybody, is that much of the media especially BBC / Fleet Street is still very much white english public school boy. So that Boris Johnson can make really vile comments and everyone goes oh dear, he's such a naughty boy but we still like him. And what some of what has happened is about the english sense of superiority, ie some of the media elite think maybe its a bit uppity for someone from Ireland to have opinions they are meant to take notice of. Fine to make jokes, some a bit near the line, but presume to talk politics. Unacceptable.
Not quite the same, but when Mick Lynch started getting a lot of interviews, he became an internet sensation (for a while), not just because of his politics, but I honestly think some people couldn't believe that someone who spoke like him could be someone to be listened to.
I wonder if anyone else think that part of it is this.
Because I just cant believe how he has been treated, and that everyone just sort of shruged, including those in the media who are doing it.
And of course he doesn't give up publicly.
Others, and I dont for one moment criticise them for doing it, just decide that for the time being enough is enough.