There’s a major protest planned tonight outside RTE studios in Donnybrook, Dublin 4.
Members of the LGBTQ transgender community are planning a major lockdown protest on RTE this evening in opposition to a pre-recorded interview with Fr Ted creator Graham Linehan.
According to the Irish Times, Linehan has accused some activists supporting transgender people of holding an “extreme, misogynist ideology”.
Prime Time has recorded a pre-recorded interview with Linehan as part of their speicial tonight on transgender people. An online petition requesting RTE don’t run Linehan’s interview has now reached 5,000 people.
The petition reads: “Graham Linehan is not a medical expert and he is not transgender. He has frequently expressed transphobic views in public and has used his social media platform to denigrate transgender people.”
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