Hahaha, oh I love my job sometimes, and never more than when it gives me the chance to laugh at a terf loser getting their comeuppance – and there’s no bigger one than Graham Linehan.
Glinner: the biggest terf loser on Twitter
Graham Linehan, if you’ve the pleasure of never having heard of him, was formerly known for being the creator of shows such as Father Ted and Black Books. But for the last few years, he’s progressively become known as the weirdo on Twitter who harasses trans women and their allies to the point that his wife and family walked out on him.
Anyone who dares to tweet about trans rights is bound to have plenty of experience with Graham, or as he’s known on Twitter by his username Glinner. In my time, I’ve been told to stay away from kids, stay out of women’s spaces, called a man, the Stasi and of course, the classic “gold star trans maiden”. Glinner’s tweets are nearly always a dog whistle to his even weirder loyal followers, so if he tweets you or about you, you’re guaranteed the absolute worst people in your mentions for a minimum of 2 days.
But compared to the sustained hatred some have received from Graham, that’s small fry. He’s already in the middle of a court case for harassing 18-year-old trans activist Sophia, which included abusive comments and damaging her phone. He pleaded not guilty to these charges back in May and is due to stand trial tomorrow for that.
Telling people to punch trans women is, in fact, inciting violence
However, when he was returning to the country for the trial, he was arrested for a completely different reason. On Monday, the terf was arrested for inciting violence towards trans women through his tweets. To be honest with you, the police could’ve chosen a myriad of Glinner’s tweets, but three in particular were reported.
As well as the above he also says you can “smell” a photo of trans rights protestors and another tweet simply stating “I hate them. Misogynists and homophobes. Fuck em.” In the tweets, he can clearly be seen being hateful towards trans people and their allies and definitely telling people to assault trans people. But of course, this is something Glinner denies.
Linehan wrote about his arrest on his Substack because, in the best news of all – the police have told him he’s not allowed to tweet! Which must be absolutely killing the man who averages around 80 tweets a day. Jesus, we know you’re divorced Graham, but that takes the piss.
Absolute comedy gold
While I won’t link to his Substack, I will share some quotes from the post, because it’s the funniest shit he’s written in decades.
After some horribly vile excuse for why he wrote the tweet about assaulting trans women, which involves him claiming all trans women in female-only spaces are abusers and should be assaulted, he comes out with a corker that apparently definitely happened:
…The ‘punch in the bollocks’ bit was about the height difference between men and women, the bollocks being closer to punch level for a woman defending her rights and certainly not a call to violence. (Not one of my best as one of the female officers said “We’re not THAT small”).
He then immediately challenges the police officer who is interviewing him on his use of the phrase trans people:
He mentioned “trans people”. I asked him what he meant by the phrase. “People who feel their gender is different than what was assigned at birth.” I said “Assigned at birth? Our sex isn’t assigned.” He called it semantics, I told him he was using activist language. The damage Stonewall has done to the UK police force will take years to mend.
Imagine being so privileged that you not only feel you can challenge an arresting officer’s language but then think so warped that you think Stonewall have any influence over the UK Police.
Linehan then informs the reader he was taken to A&E after his blood pressure was exceedingly high; he blames this, of course, on the harassment he’s faced by trans people and their allies. But let’s be honest, it’s from getting himself so red in the face any time a trans person breathes, isn’t it?
But it wasn’t only Stonewall that’s embedded in the police force:
The police themselves, for the most part, were consistently decent throughout this farce. Some were even Father Ted fans. Thank God the Catholic Church never had with the police the special relationship granted to trans activists.
Yes that’s right, the Catholic Church definitely don’t have a special relationship with the police force, but trans people do. Let that sink in for a minute and try not to burst out laughing.
Glinner: banned from Twitter at the worst time for a terf
The terf mournfully informs his loyal Twitter followers:
I looked at the single bail condition: I am not to go on Twitter. That’s it.
Which, let’s be honest, may as well be a death sentence for the man who has literally nothing else.
Glinner ends his diatribe with this:
To me, this proves one thing beyond doubt: the UK has become a country that is hostile to freedom of speech, hostile to women, and far too accommodating to the demands of violent, entitled, abusive men who have turned the police into their personal goon squad.
Which is funny because there’s only one abusive man I can see being treated sympathetically by the police, from what you’ve described, Graham.
One of Glinner’s big gripes these last few years is that despite him sacrificing (read: throwing away) everything in his life to be a rancid terf, Queen Moldemort JK Rowling has never thanked, supported or even acknowledged him. Presumably because while she likes to cleverly incite hatred with thinly veiled words, Linehan tells people to kick trans women in the balls. But that all changed yesterday.
Moldemort weighs in
Rowling quote tweeted a post about the arrest, saying:
What the fuck has the UK become? This is totalitarianism. Utterly deplorable.
As it was rightly pointed out on Twitter, Glinner would’ve had an absolute field day that his hero had finally acknowledged him, so it makes it absolutely fucking hilarious that she waited until he couldn’t respond to do so.
She’s since shared tweets contrasting the treatment of Linehan with the way raped women are treated by the police. When actual fact, they should be comparing it to how rapists are treated, considering that Linehan said himself, everyone was very polite and understanding.
Snivelling terf Streeting tries to be funny
Terf stooge Wes Streeting also felt the need to weigh in. I bet he was really proud of himself when he came up with the line:
We want the police to focus on policing streets rather than tweets
He then said something just as funny:
But the thing we are mindful of, as a government that backs the police to keep us safe, is that police are there to enforce the laws that we as Parliament legislate for.
So if over the years, with good intentions, Parliament has layered more and more expectation on police, and diluted the focus and priorities of the public, that’s obviously something we need to look at.
So basically, when Kneecap or other pro-Palestine figures tweet, their laws are working fine. But because one of their side got caught out, it’s bad and needs changing, okay got it.
Glinner got his just desserts
As someone who’s been harassed endlessly by terfs, alt-right men and those against benefits for well over a decade on Twitter, I personally don’t think the laws go far enough. Terf accounts who wished my grandmother had died sooner are still active, men who shared my photo with cum on it never even got the posts removed. I’ve been threatened with violence, rape, and abuse to me and my family, and the only time police have visited me about Twitter is when a man got me cautioned for warning others what he’d done.
Glinner got exactly what he deserved here, and it’s all the more funnier that his precious Twitter got taken away in the process.
Featured image via the Canary
This post was originally published on Canary.