Graham Lineham: Trans rights extremists destroyed my career, friendships and marriage, but I will never give in
On one occasion, two years ago, after trans activist Dr Adrian Harrop accused Graham of transphobia, Graham and Helen awoke to find police at the door.
A week ago, Graham moved from a rented 'box' into the modest two-bedroom flat in Norwich where we meet after finally accepting that his 18-year marriage is over. There are photographs of his children on the wall but little else. 'So they started going for her. They released her address online. They tried to get her animated children's series taken out of an animation festival in Ireland.
'It was going great. Neil Hannon [the Irish singer songwriter] has written some brilliant songs. We'd rehearsed it twice. Then they're saying I have to walk away from it and offering me £200,000. A few weeks ago, Graham heard the mother of one of the swimmers competing against Lia Thomas — who identifies as a woman but is a biological male — talking about how her daughter had said she didn't know what she was allowed to do if Lia came into the dressing room.
They loved each other deeply then and made a hugely powerful video about having had to abort a child of their own on medical grounds. The country voted to repeal the Act in 2018 by an overwhelming majority. Graham says he, in turn, would reply, 'OK Groomer', as he feels strongly that children — and society as a whole — is being groomed into this line of thinking: 'Kids are walking down a really dangerous road. They're going to be medicalised for life, but no one was picking up on it.'
A few weeks ago, Graham heard the mother of one of the swimmers competing against Lia Thomas - who identifies as a woman but is a biological male - talking about how her daughter had said she didn't know what she was allowed to do if Lia came into the dressing room Within a year, he had lost 300,000 followers. 'The activists wrote to friends of mine who followed me, saying, 'why are you following Graham Linehan, he's a bigot.'
'I had a thing cancelled in Australia where I was supposed to talk about comedy writing. I was asked to write a companion piece to the play Black Comedy, one of my favourite pieces, and a couple of weeks after asking me they took it away.
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