May 12, 2026
Episode 135 [PATREON EXCLUSIVE] -- 2 TERF 2 Island
For the second part of our deep dive into transphobia in the UK, Moira and Adrian explore what happened when TERFism left mumsnet and anti-trans blogs, and began ruling the roost on the opinion sections of major newspapers. We trace how a double moral panic -- one around youth transition, and one about how you couldn't say transphobic things anymore without getting canceled -- began devouring UK print media, and how it both fed on and disavowed its online origins.
