The Trans Agenda: The UK just keeps getting worse

7 September 2025

It has been a long, hot summer in the UK and I’m delighted to report that everything is much worse for trans people in the UK than it was at the start of the season, when it was so relentless it forced me to take an extended break from doing this shite. There are no cis newsletters where their creators hope they can stop one day, but I know of a few trans ones.

While nothing in terms of legislation has gone through since I was last doing this weekly, the tone around trans people has, somehow, managed to get worse. People like to make comparisons of the UK with the likes of Russia, Hungary and, of course, the US, but it seems to me that the UK leads the way in terms of the amount of vicious anti-trans rhetoric and the shear relentlessness of it all. Finally, the country has found something it can win at.

We have now reached the point where the media and establishment are coming to the defence of Graham Linehan, quite possibly the most obsessed and vile anti-trans ‘activist’ on the planet. The man who begged for JK Rowling’s attention has finally got it. Everybody on that side is Glinner now, that’s how far they’ve gone.

The GC infiltration of the UK is also complete. They now have people in positions of power in the media, the government, the cabinet, the Home Office, the NHS, the EHRC, the courts and more. We all wait to see the EHRC guidance that is sure to tighten the urinary leash around our necks, all while cis people debate why it’s funny to encourage people to punch trans women in the genitals for the crime of trying to use a public bathroom.

Referring to trans people as ‘trans identified’ and other slurs is now regular practice across the print media, particularly in the papers that I monitor. Language that makes a mockery of the editor’s code of conduct is not just an exception any more, it is seemingly demanded. Ignoring a person’s actual pronouns to use the ones the journalist wants has also taken on a life of its own. Where once a person could only be revealed to be trans if that was relevant to the story, just being trans is enough to be the story now, often the front page. As if to prove my point, in today’s Sunday Telegraph they manage to deadname two trans women in a story about one being deadnamed. You can see that in the PAPERS section

In amongst that, independent media also continues to fail. Substack’s embrace of Nazis is growing, with such newsletters as “Ava’s Substack” by Ava Wolfe. It publishes delights like “The Gospel of Goebbels”. Other newsletters talk about “Jewish child molestors”, “True Whites” and “The Populace are Ready for Pogroms”. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Private Eye report that they recently sent a push notification encouraging people to sign up for the NatSocToday, an organisation with a swastika for a label that talks of ‘eradicating minorities’.

On the page after this report, Private Eye printed a Harry Potter cartoon, beloved by good Nazis everywhere.

NEWS & POLICTICS

Cass to review NI review

The Northern Ireland Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has announced that Hilary Cass, along with three of her minions, will review the six-year gender review that just completed in the province. It will take her two days.

There seems little need. Despite including trans people and members of their families, their recommendations were completely ignored when the final review was released. Instead, they opted for a Cass-style system focusing on conversion therapy, which is why Nesbitt is so confident that the review ‘complies’ with Cass. I wrote more about this here and what is behind Nesbitt’s actions.

EHRC delivers updated guidance to Minister

Although it has not yet been seen by the public, the final guidance is expected to be very similar, if not identical, to the interim guidance, which the EHRC had to partially withdraw. The wait goes on to see if Bridget Phillipson will force it through without parliamentary scrutiny or if MPs will get a say. Contact your MP.

Keir Starmer hires Sex Matters trustee as Head of Comms

Keir Starmer has put Tim Allan, a former trustee of Sex Matters, in charge of Labour’s communications.

For 11 months, Allan sat on the board of a group that exists solely to strip rights from trans people. In April 2025, he called a Sex Matters post opposing trans women’s access to women’s spaces and attacking Penny Mordaunt “an excellent document” with “very clear legal history of the issue” showing that he is also either an idiot or a liar, perhaps both.

Your Party hire more anti-trans people

After welcoming Adnan Hussein to Your Party, Zarah Sultana last week welcomed Mark Serwotka, husband to the founder of the anti-trans Women’s Place.

Keir Starmer’s cabinet reshuffle gives more power to anti-trans activists as he moves further right

According to The Times, Sir Keir Starmer’s cabinet is weighing radical reforms to human rights law, including the UK’s relationship with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), as it seeks to harden its stance on immigration, with trans people also in their sights. New home secretary Shabana Mahmood is said to be prepared to “start with the unthinkable and work backwards”. The anti-trans Mahmood is also said to be considering forcibly medicating prisoners.

Graham Linehan seeks asylum in America [Mail on Sunday]

Graham Linehan is now seeking asylum in the US, styling himself a “free speech refugee”. The former comedian is currently on trial in London after allegedly harassing and assaulting a 17-year-old trans girl. He was also arrested for encouraging his followers to attack trans women in public toilets. Having torched his career and personal life with years of hate, Linehan is now predictably embedding himself into the far-right orbit of Donald Trump, MAGA lawyers, and conspiracy theorists. Hating trans people is a profitable business and the only surprise here is that it took him so long.

THE WEEK AHEAD

Full Parliament business can be viewed here

Tuesday 9 September

9am+, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, The work of the BBC
2.30pm, Westminster Hall debate, Supporting neurodivergent people into employment
2.30pm, House of Lords, Opening more child houses, in the model of The Lighthouse, to provide services to child victims of sexual abuse

Wednesday 10 September

9.30am, Westminster Hall debate, Impact of the Equality Act 2010 on British Society
12pm, House of Lords, Prime Minister’s Questions
2pm, Women and Equalities Committee, private meeting
2.30pm, Westminster Hall debate, Humanitarian access to the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Thursday 11 September

Former DUP leader, Jeffrey Donaldson in court on sexual abuse and rape charges

Friday 12 September

Verdict expected in Jair Bolsonaro’s trial

MEDIA

Private Eye takes selective aim at The Telegraph

A story in issue 1655 of Private Eye takes aim at what it calls the “former newspaper the Telegraph,” noting that it has become “so unreliable” that rival editors now tell their reporters not to repeat its stories, given the likelihood of inaccuracies”.

The piece catalogues a string of errors and outright falsehoods the paper has published, including the infamous tale of the supposedly hard-up family struggling with private school fees, a family that did not in fact exist.

True to form, Private Eye doesn’t point out that other papers are more than happy to parrot Telegraph copy when the subject is trans people. The most recent example was the widely circulated ‘story’ about Marks and Spencer, carried eagerly by many.

Among the list of blunders highlighted is a correction the Telegraph was forced to print after claiming that prostate cancer cases were “surging among both men and women by 25%.” Private Eye smugly observed that women do not have prostates, though that is not accurate, either.

SHORTS

The day after the outrage at Glinner’s arrest fired up, JK Rowling tweeted that her husband had declared “open season on these cunts”. He did not, apparently, mean Graham Linehan.
Former Reform MP Rupert Lowe’s newly formed Restore Britain party launched its social media advertising campaign, targeting the usual list of vulnerable targets, including trans people, as they beg people to ‘RESTORE BIOLOGICAL REALITY’. They would, of course, have to start believing in reality, first. [Who Targets Me]