Stephen, Graham Linehan's "gay man who agrees with me," finds the support of trans rights to be homophobic.

He asks "what has changed" since the 2015 marriage referendum, and why plenty of Irish gay people "now" disagree with him.

They didn't change, Stephen.

You did. 1/
Stephen, and the transphobic LGB Alliance that he supports, rewrite history.

Many gay people would have dearly loved to avoid the debate around the 2015 Irish referendum, and it was seen by many as a necessary evil. Here are two quotes about that in the Irish Times in 2015. 2/
Stephen has written this in support of the UK LGB Alliance setting up an Irish Twitter account.

Ironically, they are supported by politicians like Baroness Emma Nicholson (good friend of JK Rowling) and Jackie Doyle-Price, who still oppose Stephen's right to get married. 3/
Stephen supports straight men, like Benjamin Boyce and Graham Linehan, who would call him "a fairy" and "a fag," and then has the temerity to call people who don't agree with Benjamin and Graham on trans rights "homophobes." 4/
There's a Twitter account called @GcHomophobia set up to document the homophobia that comes from the so-called "gender critical movement" and it shows that homophobia is endemic. They attract bigots.

Why else would people who don't support marriage equality support it? 5/
The question that people like Stephen have to ask is, why do they find themselves, five years later, supporting people who would use derogatory names about them and deny their right to get married just so they can oppose the rights and humanity of trans people in the same way?
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