Father Ted creator Graham Linehan tells how his trans 見解（をとる）s cost him his career, friends and marriage during six-year 'nightmare' ordeal

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Father Ted's co-creator Graham Linehan?has 述べるd losing his career, his friends and his marriage in a six-year 'nightmare' 予定 to his 見解（をとる）s on trans 問題／発行するs.

The writer and 選挙運動者 需要・要求するd 犯罪の 調査s into two プロの／賛成の-trans charities Mermaids and?Stonewall after the major Cass 報告（する）／憶測 into NHS?transgender 治療.

Linehan, 55, said the organisations were の中で those who should be 'held accountable' for encouraging what he called 'the myth of the trans child'.

He also （刑事）被告 the BBC of '押し進めるing this ideology' on young children with CBBC programmes covering 十代の少年少女s' gender 移行 治療.

And he （人命などを）奪う，主張するd his strident 姿勢 almost got him 閉めだした from entering Australia, where he is 現在／一般に travelling on a speaking 小旅行する.?

Graham Linehan has called for 犯罪の 調査s into Mermaids UK and Stonewall

He said the sudden 財政上の insecurity 原因（となる）d by his trans 見解（をとる）s 原因（となる）d the 崩壊（する） of his marriage of 16 years to Helen Serafinowicz, co-creator of the BBC comedy Motherland

Linehan co-created Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted starring, left to 権利, Frank Kelly, Pauline McLynn, Dermot Morgan and?Ardal O'Hanlon

He 攻撃する，衝突する out at 対抗者s after the Cass Review's 非常に長い and long-を待つd 報告（する）／憶測 誘発するd NHS?England, which had already stopped puberty blockers 存在 given to under-16s, to 発表する a review into the use of hormones.

Linehan earlier said he was?'proud as punch' and felt vindicated by the Cass Review's 結論 that 医療の 治療 in children's gender care had been based on weak 証拠.

支持者s on X, 以前は Twitter, have been 株ing the hashtag 'GlinnerWasRight' and asking whether everyone who had 'cancelled' him would go 支援する on their words.

He has called for follow-up 活動／戦闘 に引き続いて yesterday's 報告（する）／憶測, 含むing against transgender?support group Mermaids UK and LGBTQ+ 権利s organisation Stonewall.

Linehan told GB News:?'I think we have to be a little bit careful and a little bit judicious in how we find the 有罪の and what we do about them - there are some people who are more 有罪の than others.

'Mermaids, I think, should be held accountable ? very much so. I think they should be 調査／捜査するd, I think there should be a 犯罪の 調査 into Mermaids.

'I think there should be a 犯罪の 調査 into Stonewall.'

Transgender support group Mermaids UK has been （刑事）被告 of encouraging youngsters to 移行 because they do not 適合する to gender stereotypes.

The charity has also （選挙などの）運動をするd for greater 接近 to puberty blockers, which the Cass Review 警告するd 'may change the trajectory of psychosexual and gender 身元 開発' without altering a 患者’s 団体／死体 不満 or gender dysphoria.

Linehan also turned on the BBC, 最高潮の場面ing a CBBC programme called My Life: I Am Leo, に引き続いて a 13-year-old who was born as a girl but lives as a boy and was one of the first children in Britain to be 定める／命ずるd hormone blockers.< /p>

Linehan is pictured here at a 'Let WomenSpeak' 決起大会／結集させる in Dublin's Merrion Square last September

Retired 顧問 paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass 明らかにする／漏らすs the Cass Review's final 報告（する）／憶測 this week

Linehan last night called for people 押し進めるing what he called 'the myth of the trans child' to be 'held accountable' as he also criticised the BBC

Linehan said: 'I think there should be an 調査 into the BBC ? BBC shows like I Am Leo, shows like that we 押し進める this ideology on an audience of children. I think they need to be held accountable.

'It’s not just doctors who need to be 調査／捜査するd, it’s the whole apparatus that created this myth of the trans child.

‘We now know thanks to Cass ? although many of us knew it already, we didn’t need Cass to know this ? it’s an 絶対の 嘘（をつく） that was designed to 混乱させる and manipulate people and shame them into thinking they were attacking a 攻撃を受けやすい section of society when in fact they were trying to help a 攻撃を受けやすい section of society.’

'I think there should be an 調査 into the BBC ? BBC shows like I Am Leo, shows like that we 押し進める this ideology on an audience of children. I think they need to be held accountable.

'It's not just doctors who need to be 調査／捜査するd, it's the whole apparatus that created this myth of the trans child.

'We now know thanks to Cass ? although many of us knew it already, we didn't need Cass to know this ? it's an 絶対の 嘘（をつく） that was designed to 混乱させる and manipulate people and shame them into thinking they were attacking a 攻撃を受けやすい section of society when in fact they were trying to help a 攻撃を受けやすい section of society.'

A BBC spokesperson said: 'CBBC is proud to 反映する all areas of children's lives 含むing age-appropriate 代表 of the different 問題／発行するs they may 直面するs, whilst helping them develop empathy and 親切 に向かって each other as they grow up.'?

MailOnline has 接触するd Mermaids and Stonewall for comment.

Linehan's fans have （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the comedian had been vindicated by the Cass Review and have been calling for those who 'cancelled' him to backtrack.

Irish writer Graham Linehan, 55, says he and fellow 選挙運動者s have been 'trying to help a 攻撃を受けやすい section of society'

支持者s of Linehan's 姿勢 have called on X, 以前は Twitter, for those who have criticised or 'cancelled' him to apologise

Comedy writer Josh Howie 地位，任命するd on X: 'The hate and ridicule directed at Graham by 同僚s in the comedy 産業 these last years has disgusted me.

'He was 権利 and he was 勇敢に立ち向かう and he was utterly vilified for it. Let's see if even one of those 勇敢に立ち向かう 'truth tellers' now apologises.'

Irish writer Linehan belongs to a 議論の的になる school of thought that believes those who support the gender 移行 of youngsters are child abusers.?

He 以前 tweeted in January last year: 'Telling children they have the wrong 団体／死体s is child 乱用.'

Linehan rose to fame in 1995 for creating, と一緒に 令状ing partner Arthur Matthews, the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted which ran until 1998.

He then went on to pen 黒人／ボイコット 調書をとる／予約するs and The IT （人が）群がる but in 最近の years has 充てるd himself to …に反対するing?transgender?行動主義者s, which led to a Twitter 禁止（する） in 2020 - since 逆転するd - and a show at last year's Edinburgh Fringe 存在 shut 負かす／撃墜する.

In 2021 he 明らかにする／漏らすd that sudden 財政上の insecurity 原因（となる）d by his trans 見解（をとる）s 原因（となる）d the 崩壊（する） of his marriage of 16 years to Helen Serafinowicz, co-creator of the BBC comedy Motherland.

Linehan has now said:?'From the moment I started talking about this 問題／発行する, I had friends and even family members distance themselves from me.'

'I got 脅しs. I got 汚い emails, 汚い direct messages, some of them from people I had worked with for years - everyone telling me to stop talking and shut up.

Graham Linehan at a 保守的な Party 会議／協議会 会合 in Manchester last October

?Graham Linehan has been thanking people for support に引き続いて the Cass Review

'I had police visit me twice on に代わって of trans 行動主義者s. I lost my family and marriage,

'I'm still の近くに to my children but I lost my marriage because I kept losing 職業s and 適切な時期s, it was unrelenting 圧力.'

He had been working again with Matthews and Hat Trick 生産／産物s on a 行う／開催する／段階 musical adaptation of Father Ted, called ローマ法王 Ted, which has since fallen through.?

Linehan told GB News last night:?'I genuinely thought my Father Ted 同僚s would stand up for me and see what is happening to children and realise I was 権利 to be taking the stand I was taking.

'But instead they told me to 除去する my 指名する from the musical and said they would not make it if I didn't.

'They 申し込む／申し出d me £200,000. I 辞退するd because I thought the 問題／発行する was too important - I didn't want Father Ted to be built on the 廃虚d 団体／死体s of children.

'It has just been a nightmare for the last six years. I 港／避難所't written comedy for six years.?It has been a long fight. I'm 極端に tired.'

Hat Trick 生産／産物s' managing director Jimmy Mulville has 以前 said the show should have been a 'surefire 攻撃する，衝突する' in the West End but it was decided having Linehan 伴う／関わるd would make it impossible to 行う／開催する／段階.

He told the Times?in March last year: 'I said, "We’re not getting at you. We’re trying to save the work and the only way we save the work now is by disassociating it from you, 悲劇の as that is".

He had been working on a 行う／開催する／段階 musical 見解／翻訳／版 of Father Ted, called ローマ法王 Ted - Ardal O'Hanlon (left) and the late Dermot Morgan are seen here in the TV 初めの

Linehan's other sitcoms 含む The IT （人が）群がる starring, from left to 権利, Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade and Katherine Parkinson

'I know writers really 井戸／弁護士席, it’s hard for writers to do that - and I said it would take an enormous 量 of personal courage and humility, but the only way that we go 今後 is to make a 声明.

'We had 声明s 用意が出来ている where we said, we believe in Graham’s 権利 to speak his mind and that he’s sincere in his beliefs.'

Neil Hannon, who penned Father Ted's 主題 tune and was 令状ing the music for the 行う／開催する／段階 show, told the Telegraph in January 2022: 'It was fun working on it, but it wasn’t 証明するing 平易な. It’s been difficult to watch what’s happened.

'I believe in 解放する／自由な speech, but I also very much believe in people’s perfect 権利 to remain 完全に silent on 問題／発行するs that they don’t feel they can speak on. And that’s all I want to say about it.'

Linehan also said last night, after 延期するs 安全な・保証するing a ビザ to cross from New Zealand to Australia on his 現在の speaking 小旅行する: 'I nearly didn’t get into Australia because the Australian 当局 think I’m some sort of bigot.'

Retired paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass, who wrote the 報告（する）／憶測 published yesterday, made 32 推薦s 含むing a 'follow-through' service for 17 to 25-year-olds.

She said this should 妨げる this '攻撃を受けやすい' group going straight into adult clinics, as she 警告するd 十代の少年少女s were '落ちるing off a cli ff 辛勝する／優位' in their care when reaching 17.

Her 報告（する）／憶測 結論するd that gender care is 現在／一般に an area of 'remarkably weak 証拠' and young people have been caught up in a '嵐の social discourse'.

NHS England has now written to 地元の NHS leaders to ask that they pause first 任命 申し込む／申し出s at adult gender clinics to young people before their 18th birthday, as it also ーするつもりであるs to carry out a major review of these services.

The 報告（する）／憶測, first （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d in 2020, called for gender services to operate 'to the same 基準s' as other health services for children.

Graham Linehan 成し遂げるs his Edinburgh Fringe Festival show outside the Scottish 議会 last August after having a planned performan ce at another 発生地 cancelled

Neil Hannon, 以前は of the Divine Comedy, had been 令状ing the music for the 提案するd ローマ法王 Ted show but has said it 'wasn't 証明するing 平易な'

It also 勧めるd that young people who have been referred be 申し込む／申し出d 'a holistic 査定／評価', 含むing 審査 for neurodevelopmental 条件s such as autism, and a mental health 査定／評価.

Dr Cass said that 'for the 大多数 of young people, a 医療の pathway may not be the best way' to 演説（する）／住所 their needs.

The Children's Society has called for the 報告（する）／憶測 to '示す a watershed moment' in fostering an 環境 'which places the wellbeing and safety of all children at its heart'.

The 王室の College of Psychiatrists said all gender-尋問 children must get 'timely 接近 to services that are holistic and 答える／応じる to their individual needs'.