A fairly subtle point probably worth mentioning is that anti-trans activists are misusing today's more fine-grained understanding of queer people to deny history.

The Nazis sent people to the death camps for being "homosexual." Cross dressing was a piece of evidence for them in determining homosexuality. A "man" dressing as a woman in daily life was, to them, a homosexual.

When anti-trans activists like Linehan zoom into Nazi particulars to point out that their laws and policies were anti-gay rather than anti-trans, they distort history by using contemporary definitions of gay and trans people that do not accurately describe what the Nazis did.

The Nazis sent trans people to death camps and labor camps for being trans – in very significant numbers. Historians recognize this as undisputed fact.

Linehan and others of his ilk twist the facts on purpose, by misusing language terms.

As Owen Jones himself has pointed out, the right really don't care about the distinctions we LGBTQ people make among ourselves.

They despise all of us for violating gender norms – whether we're gay and attracted to the "wrong" gender, or trans and living as the "wrong" gender.

They despise us just like the Nazis despised us.

P.S. Linehan actually did his comedy act in public, for free, in Edinburgh. Fewer than 50 people turned up, and many of them were there because they wanted to give him a piece of their mind.

That's why the venue cancelled his act. Nobody wanted to see it.