He's not the only one who's fallen for this AGP specifically, Women's Place UK gave him a platform (along with a bunch of other troons like Kristina Harrison and Fionne Orlander), Genspect, Jane Clare Jones etc. I suspect Genspect is trying to position itself as "WPATH Lite" and so it's kind of pivoting towards supporting castrating
some troons but not endorsing affirmation-only, and they're pally with a lot of nonce-adjacent sexologist people like Michael Bailey and James Cantor.
I think this is rooted in Glinner's insecurity about being on the team painted as transphobic in the mainstream. He needs "a good one" to point to in order to dodge accusations of bigotry. Basically, "I'm not a transphobe, I have a trans friend"
It's obviously performative, but he may be a part of his own audience in this instance. When his popularity peaked, the mainstream moral paradigm was "rational, open-minded witty liberals who read the Guardian" versus "blindly hateful Daily Mail thugs", and Glinner's psychomachia over the last few years is in proving that he's one of the Good Guys (TM) despite now lining up alongside the yobs of yesteryear
You see, he's not like those knuckle-dragging fanatics, he's capable of seeing beyond the identity politics and befriending those on the other side of the issue. Sure doesn't sound like a bigot to me, does it fellow Guardian readers?
This is a very good theory, and I think it explains why it's mostly the upper-class, media and academic TERFs who go along with Dave, and why it's mostly the working-class gobby TERFs ("rudefems" and "GC ultras") who don't.
I’ve never understood his bro’mance with Hayton. He admits he’s a man who has a fetish so he’s a good one why?
This is the bit I don't get. Surely if the guy's saying "you don't
have to call me a woman, but it'd make my stench trench squirm if you did", surely to god that's a good reason to not indulge him even over the other AGPs?
Also, why is half of TERFdom happy with Hayton exercising his perversion around kids? I have a thing for red headed women but I wouldn’t get to have ginger porn on my iPad whilst I taught all day, but if wearing a dress gave me a semi then I’m fine to ponce about in a dress surrounded by children or to follow women into bathrooms?
Graham, we all know you love to name search, if you are reading this sort your fucking self out and drop this troon.
Kellie-Jay Keen has done a few videos about exactly this. Dave has apparently got two safeguarding campaign groups (Safe Schools Alliance and Keep Prisons Single Sex), blocked on Twitter. There was a similar TERF bust-up about Phil Illy rocking up to the Genspect conference in an ugly blue velvet dress and armwarmers(?) and saying openly he did it for his fetish. He was also plugging a book that hinted at some paedo shit, retconning his own childhood and saying that some children might have fetishes. That guy's basically the American David Hayton.
Speaking of Hayton's book, anonymous TERF Hatpin Woman has read it and it's as weird and disturbing as you'd expect.
Her thread reviewing it.
Here's Dave's site hawking the thing, and here's the
early reviews with some logrolling from our favourite useful idiot:
Graham Linehan said:
Debbie Hayton’s book is a must for those wondering what is actually going on in the heads of middle aged men who suddenly announce that they are going to transition. Not only that, the description of institutional capture is an eyeopener. This book is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the madness that has gripped too many organisations, and many individuals. It offers a way through the confusion, placing compassion and our shared humanity front and centre.
Compassion and shared humanity, maaaan. While they're passing the bong and singing kum ba ya together, spare a thought for the guy's wife and kids, his school physics class, and all the children whose toilets and changing rooms he let all the other AGP freaks into. Also lol at the "description of institutional capture", which Dave himself contributed to. Listen to
@FedPostalService when you see this on your next vanity Google, Glin, this isn't going to make the troons like you (nothing is ever good enough for them), it's just going to undo all the good work everyone's done and make this whole tranny crusade all for nothing.