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Reflector podcast - ‘Strange Bedfellows’

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Brewdug · 03/04/2026 11:31

A good three-parter here from the Free Press (The Witch Trials of JK Rowling), taking a clear-eyed view of the history of the LGBT movement and the backlash to the ‘forced teaming’ of gay and trans.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reflector/id1743666262?i=1000756347603

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BeKindWisely · 03/04/2026 14:27

Brilliant! Thanks for the heads up Brewdug

Buffalogruffalo · 03/04/2026 21:18

I don’t think this was great? Lesbians were kind of written out of it?

ChequerToRed · 04/04/2026 09:32

Buffalogruffalo · 03/04/2026 21:18

I don’t think this was great? Lesbians were kind of written out of it?

Yeah, it ignored a lot. Focussed hard in part 3 on parents reaction to trans stuff in the US school curriculum like it was the be all and end all, but little to nothing on women’s objections to males in their spaces and some of the major controversies such as the Wi Spa incident, Loudoun School District, ‘Lia’ Thomas, the role of Secretary for Health Levine under the Biden administration as well as non binary suitcase thief Brinton and the infamous tits out on the Whitehouse lawn affair.
Sure, they had to pack a lot in to a three part podcast, but the omission of so many major public peaking moments was a bit glaring.

drhf · 04/04/2026 11:13

This is an eerily male-centring, he-peating version of the US LGBT/queer rights story in which lesbians and feminists appear only occasionally and shorn of our context. Ben Kawaller at at one point states that lesbians became part of the gay rights movement during the 1990s because so many men had died of AIDS and so weren’t available any more to lead.

The co-presenter Andy Mills worked on The Witch Trials of JK Rowling and just about has his head about the UK sex realist argument, but even so the feminist perspective is almost inaudible across the three programmes. The vast majority of the interviewees are male and as usual transmen are largely ignored.

It’s deeply flawed and sexist as a history but very useful in understanding how men, especially gay men, are capable of understanding what happened and therefore how to talk to them about the issues.

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