Thread by @AidanCTweets

Graham Linehan says he's "still waiting for an example" of his vile bullying behaviour.

Here's a non-exhaustive thread of Graham's vile bullying behaviour. 1/

Katy Montgomerie is a trans woman and a feminist who calls out transphobia. Graham deadnames and misgenders her, calls her a crossdresser, portrays her as a child catcher. Posts pre transition pics of her. His YouTube cohost called her a pervert etc. 2/

Graham refers to women who stand up to him as "handmaidens" and "traitors." He tags them in tweets, which directs his followers to similarly abuse them. Anyone who has been tagged in his tweets knows that the pile-on from this tagging is vile, unless you use a block list. 3/

H from Steps stood up for trans rights and Graham started bullying him, so H used a block list to block this harassment, and Graham retaliated by writing a completely unevidenced defamatory thread saying that H was connected to a child rapist. How is that not vile bullying? 4/

Graham doesn't restrict his vile bullying of women to women who support trans rights. If women on his side disagree with his bullying behaviour, he does this to them. He also said he called Helen Lewis and left a voicemail for her that he hopes "doesn't come back to bite him." 5/

Graham regularly paints tweets that simply point out what he and his allies say as "disgusting" while abusing and defaming people in reply. He has written numerous blogs and made many videos personally targeting people in this way and worse. 5/

Here's an example of the vile bullying blogs he writes about people who point out "gender criticism's" transphobia.

He lies (I never interacted with Berns or her family, let alone harassed) and says horrific personalised things about people in frankly frightening screeds. 6/

And if that doesn't work to shut people up, he also, in the background, issues legal threats to people. (After all this he attempted to sue ME for defamation.) He has said recently that he is using ChatGPT to "lighten the workload" of sending "legal-sounding" letters to people.7/

You may have noticed, Graham, like all classic bullies who never left the playground, loves to use the word "fat" as a pejorative, and posts pictures of people for mockery and fatshaming like this.

How is this not vile bullying behaviour? Denying it is Orwellian. 8/

Graham regularly posts pictures of trans women for mockery saying things like "no surgery, just a bloke."

And, with no hint of irony, also posts pictures of trans people without consent who have had surgery calling it "mutilation." 9/

You may say that he isn't responsible for how his followers abuse people, except that he likes
their abusive tweets. Here's one calling Kirstie Allsop "mentally r*tarded" that he liked. He approves. This is how he wants his followers to bully people who support trans rights. 10/

Graham claims he came up with the term "ok groomer" (he didn't) and he regularly singles out trans rights supporters and calls them "groomers." Then he'll gaslight people claiming he doesn't mean it in the pedophilic sense, but he absolutely does, as evidenced here. 11/

His bugbear is that his Father Ted musical isn't going ahead. He makes videos like this about his former Father Ted musical colleagues, bullying them by name. In one of these videos he suggested Neil Hannon cares more animals than children, for example.

He'll say his musical was cancelled because he was just "standing up for women's rights" but the declaration he says he would force workers to sign to be "allowed" to work on his musical is a transphobic declaration. That's the sort of bullying authoritarian he is.
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Jackie Green is a 30 year old trans woman. She had surgery 14 years ago. She is simply living her life now. And yet Graham regularly posts tweets like this about her.
Consider the fact that Jackie's life has nothing at all to do with Graham. He's bullying her, relentlessly. 14/

For years, Graham would share a video by trans woman Kristina Harrison as "proof" he wasn't transphobic.

However, Kristina said a cartoon by an ally of his was transphobic, so he had the cartoonist on his blog, and hosted vile, transphobic comments about Kristina like this. 15/

At the time, Kathleen Stock, a "gender critical" woman, stood up for Kristina (and another trans woman) so Graham wrote a blog calling Stock "the chamberlain of the gender wars" (seriously, these people) and accused her of endangering him, because he's also a crybully. 16/

Graham (and his allies and the media) will claim he is standing up for autistic kids who are being "transed" and yet he uses "autistic" as a pejorative, and as a word to slur people who stand to up him.

How is this not vile hypocrisy?

This is clearly bullying behaviour. 17/

It's not like any of this is new.
This is a tweet from five years ago.
This is who he is, & who he has always been. An abusive, angry bully, replying to reasonable questions like this. When the media say "gender critical beliefs" this is actually what " gender criticism" is. 18/

The person who wrote this perfectly reasonable tweet is a survivor of CSA, but the "gender critical" movement ratioed this tweet, directed by Linehan calling the person a "groomer." That's what I mean when I say the abuse/bullying is directed from the top of the GC movement. 19/

Here's another example of his bullying a trans woman, suggesting this trans woman became a paramedic to "fondle women."

(I often wonder what "gender critical" trans woman @KJ_Harrison thought of this relentless bullying and transphobia, as she works as a paramedic too.) 20/

@KJ_Harrison A person went on a game show and identified as queer, and Graham posted their pictures, calling them homophobes. (Graham refers to bi (or pansexual) people currently in ostensibly "straight" relationships as "spicy straights" etc. You don't stop being bi (or pan) obviously.) 21/

Graham is the sort of bully who thinks his loyalty in one situation should be repaid to him forever, in every situation, which led him to abuse a trans-supportive woman like this, saying she was tweeting "male-pandering shite" and was "giving away rights to men." 22/

He goes after trans women who want to take part in women's sport with a zeal and hatred that goes way beyond any objection to them taking part in sport.

By the way: Putting trans women's names in inverted commas - "Emily" is very standard vile "gender critical" bullying. 23/

Seconds after an actor who is a staunch trans ally is announced in a Doctor Who role, completely seperate to trans rights, he is in with defamatory accusations, and implications that she is a homophobe. (Again, standard "gender critical" bullying to call people homophobes.) 24/

Every time someone points out transphobia he bullies them with accusations of misogyny and homophobia.
(Aside: Marion's comment about "protecting women" is ironic now, as reportedly, she is under investigation for fraud, and one of her alleged victims might be a GC woman.) 25/

Every once in a while, one of his supporters will warn him to go easy on "dehumanising" trans women.
Here, he published a blog where he told one woman to "shut the f*ck up" at the end of it. And this is a woman who was his side. She has since stopped supporting him, obviously.26/

I've posted a few screenshots to his Substack, so I should pause to say that in a recent interview he said he has 3000 paying subscribers. That would be minimum 7500 quid a month, for bullying. However, almost all of the posts are by "JL" (Josephine Liptrott) an unpaid woman. 27/

When some of his allies brought up the fact that he was profiting off the work of an unpaid woman, he said that he had offered her payment and she had refused, and what was he to do? But sit back and watch the money roll in while she does the majority of the actual work. 28/

Here are more examples his vile bullying, on the Twitter account @transpanicuk , which has lots more examples, any journalist can look whenever they are going to write a story about Linehan or the what "gender criticism" actually is.

Journalists are being obtuse, at best. 29/

@transpanicuk Just consider when you read a news story that says "he was cancelled for defending women," and put that claim against any of the examples of the actual words he speaks on this thread of on @transpanicuk.

By any measure he is a vile bully. There are 100s of examples of it. 30/

@transpanicuk He shouldn't be on @YouTube, @X, or @SubstackInc.
He has violated all of their supposed terms & conditions repeatedly, and yet they still platform his vile bullying & relentless hatred.
He seemingly can't help himself.
What is their excuse?
What will it take?
What price?
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@transpanicuk @YouTube @X @SubstackInc For the media to present this man who tells women *on his own side* to "shut the f*ck up" and would leave nasty messages on their phone if they dare criticise him as a "women's rights campaigner" is a dereliction of duty. You're excusing this bullying by platforming him. 32/

You might ask, reading all this, why no-one has sued him? Someone is currently taking proceedings agains him, and he wrote a crowdfunder which mispresents what the case is about, and raised 100K and counting from his followers to try to bully the person into stopping. 33/

He has, on video, spoken about how difficult he will make it for that person on the stand. Again, standard "gender criticism." They did it in defence of Marion Millar, where they promised to take a case of simple alleged harassment to the European court if it was pursued. 34/

Marion allegedly visited that person's workplace in the night, with a gang of "gender critical" people, and left threatening messages. If a trans supportive person did that to a GC person Graham would want them in front of the Hague. But when they do it it's not bullying? 35/

It's long past time for the media to get serious about the "gender critical" movement, and stop writing articles portraying Graham et al as "feminists" and "women's rights defenders." Graham is a leader in that movement because he's a bully and they are a bullying movement. 36/

Only the wilfully blind could read this thread and not grasp that what they are looking at is a leader in a hate movement who bullies trans people and advocates in the most vile ways he can imagine.

Let's finally get real about this. 37/37

@Rotshasa You can't engage with a mind that thinks things like that in any rational way. He has created demons in his head in order to justify himself. When you ask GCs for motive, you're likely to get a rant about "big pharma" and rich Jews "funding the EU trans lobby."

@Rotshasa Just a remindeer, these are people who saw a random Twitter glitch and built an entire unevidenced conspiracy theory that trans people in Twitter were deleting their likes to annoy them.

A sitting MP in the UK actually believes there's something to do that. Collective madness.