{"id":18491,"date":"2020-06-29T17:06:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T21:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=18491"},"modified":"2020-06-29T17:07:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T21:07:45","slug":"men-arent-women-tho-that-quote-got-graham-linehan-removed-from-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=18491","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMen aren\u2019t women tho\u201d<\/i><\/b> — that quote got Graham Linehan removed from Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graham Linehan, creator of ‘The IT Crowd’ and ‘Father Ted,’ has been removed from Twitter<\/h1>\n

By Leah Asmelash, CNN<\/p>\n

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(CNN)<\/cite>Graham Linehan, known for creating “The IT Crowd” and co-creating “Father Ted,” has been permanently suspended from Twitter after allegedly making multiple transphobic comments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A Twitter spokesperson told CNN that Linehan’s account, @glinner, “has been permanently suspended after repeated violations of our rules against hateful conduct and platform manipulation.”<\/div>\n
CNN requests for comment via email from Linehan’s representatives were not returned.<\/div>\n
Reports from\u00a0The Guardian<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Irish Post<\/a>\u00a0newspapers say his account was closed after the comedian reportedly tweeted, “men aren’t women tho,” in response to a tweet by the Women’s Institute — a UK-based women’s organization — wishing happy Pride Month to its transgender members.<\/div>\n
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Irishman Linehan has been accused of making transphobic comments in the past. He previously compared trans activists to Nazis, according\u00a0to UK outlet Metro<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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In another incident earlier this year, the BBC received\u00a0115 complaints from viewers<\/a>\u00a0after Linehan — in an interview on BBC Newsnight —\u00a0compared children<\/a>\u00a0questioning their gender to children being experimented on in Nazi Germany.<\/div>\n
Shon Faye, a British writer who is transgender, wrote that she is glad Linehan is gone from Twitter.<\/div>\n
“Like any trans woman with a ‘platform’ on here I was subjected to his creepy obsessive misogyny. But I genuinely wish now he gets the help he so badly needs. ‘Gender critical’ is a feverish cult that does its proponents no good,”\u00a0Faye wrote<\/a>, referring to feminists who deny the same rights to transgender women.<\/div>\n
Linda Riley, who previously worked at GLAAD, the media monitoring organization founded by LGBT people, also praised Linehan’s removal,\u00a0calling him a “bigot.”<\/a><\/div>\n
Linehan is not the only high-profile figure to be\u00a0called out for statements<\/a>\u00a0claiming transgender women are not women.<\/div>\n
Author JK Rowling has expressed similar views, most notably in a lengthy 3,600 word essay\u00a0earlier this month.<\/a><\/div>\n
The author faced backlash, including from “Harry Potter” film star Emma Watson. Watson did not call out Rowling specifically, but hours after the essay went live, she\u00a0wrote on Twitter:<\/a>\u00a0“Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say they are.”<\/div>\n
Attempts to exclude transgender women from the feminist movement by claiming they aren’t “real” women aren’t a new phenomenon, even as transgender women face severe and\u00a0dangerous consequences for their existence.<\/a><\/div>\n
“When society continually dehumanizes and diminishes the dignity and identities of transgender people, when we have politicians undermining the lives and rights of transgender people, it sends a dangerous signal to those who would discriminate (against) or even attack the transgender community,” Sarah McBride, national press secretary at the Human Rights Campaign, told CNN last year.<\/div>\n
That was after a\u00a02019 report by the Human Rights Campaign<\/a>\u00a0found an average of at least 22 transgender and gender non-conforming people had been victims of fatal violence per year, in the seven years the organization had tracked anti-transgender violence.<\/div>\n
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misstated Graham Linehan’s nationality. Linehan is Irish.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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