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In one of the comments on Linehan's paywalled article
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Alison Phipps exposed by Telegraph, comedians can sexually humiliate women if they call themselves trans, a Canadian comedian joins the cotton ceiling cover up

Graham, as I write this I don't know if it will ever reach you.
My autistic father in June 2019, decided after much perusing of Reddit and other places that encourage anti-woman ideology, that he was intact transgender - and had been his whole life, despite numerous long term relationships with women.
He'd turned it into a game that the family had to 'guess' what his latest life changing decision was. "Oh I can't eat bananas anymore Emily, hehehe". My 50 year old, beardy, masculine , ex-blacksmith father was taking hormones that he was buying online from abroad, because he didn't want to wait for a gender clinic. Now, there was NO indications that there was anything going on like that. Literally nothing. Think of that disgrace Jaclyn Moore. Very similar to that. The night he told me (where I very nearly said "Oh PLEASE don't tell me you think you're a woman" just before he dropped the bombshell) he stopped being my Dad. My Dad was gone.
Then started the clothing, makeup, the daily - unwanted - updates about his tits. Since then it's always been about appearing as a women. He estranged himself from his best friend because he said that "you can always tell" when a man is dressed up as a lady, no matter how many hormones you have.
He was aggressive because of the hormones and blamed it on his "female puberty" and that "I must understand" . Graham, I did not understand. I was a 4" 9' 10 year old girl when I went through puberty. Not a 50 year old, 6ft tall, built like a bodyguard, man. His rage scared me a lot.
I think I Peak-Trans'd when he told me he was just as capable of (hypothetically) breast feeding my infant son. I'm a 25 year old woman, so that didn't go down well.
I clearly remember the evening where he was in full rage mode because of something you had tweeted. I can't remember what it was, but he said "Graham Linehan is like Hitler to Trans People" . I searched you up - I enjoyed Father Ted as a kid, so was interested in finding out more about you. I was surprised that everything you said made sense. You weren't "Hitler" , you were a Gender Critical Feminist, and I soon realised I absolutely was too.
Since finding you, I've found a whole community of people dealing with the same weird non-death grief of parents, children and siblings who have lost family to the cult. It's cathartic.
I've lost most of my family due to their pandering of him. Family members who do NOT agree with it, still suck up to him. Because God forbid anyone upset him.
Every day it seems like LGB / women get less and less rights. I was sexually abused as a teenager, am I FUCK getting changed in the same room as a man with a penis. I could be forced to have a transgender doctor touch me (when it's in my birthing plan - NO MEN) but I wouldn't have any choice would I?
How does anyone deal with the anger it causes?
Thank you for reading, you will always have my support. Emily.