meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Brendan O'Neill Show

330: Julie Bindel: The trans erasure of lesbians

The Brendan O'Neill Show

spiked

News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Julie Bindel – author of Lesbians: Where Are We Now? – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Julie and Brendan discuss why the Supreme Court’s gender ruling is so vital for lesbians, why gay rights and trans rights have nothing in common, and why being a lesbian used to be fun.

Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from:
🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: 
https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 
🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 

Support spiked:
https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ 
Sign up to spiked’s newsletters:
https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

I knew we'd won.

0:01.3

And I'm never optimistic like this with court cases.

0:03.9

I've been in too many where the jury or the decision has gone the wrong way.

0:07.2

But I knew we'd want.

0:08.3

Do you think this is the last cry of the kind of trans misogyny?

0:12.2

These misogynists have not changed their minds one bit.

0:14.9

None of them thought that trans women were women or trans men are men.

0:17.8

Everyone knows that's not true. They've wanted to call us particular words and stop us from getting a bit above our station

0:24.8

and they couldn't because that wasn't cool.

0:27.0

But they can now, well, at least they could.

0:29.1

This is the beginning of the end.

0:34.6

Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill, and my special guest this week, Julie Bindle. Julie, welcome to the show.

0:41.8

Thank you very much, Brendan. It's a pleasure. I can't believe it's taken this long to get you on my podcast. I feel quite ashamed of that, actually.

0:49.6

Yeah, I figured you'd been no platforming me or something.

0:52.9

Yeah, joining all the trans people and not giving you a platform.

0:57.0

That's right.

0:58.0

I'm very happy that we can rectify it today, not least because you've got this excellent

1:01.9

new book out, which is called Lesbians, Where Are We Now?

1:06.0

I love that title.

1:07.0

Although I think it could just be called Lesbians, which would be maybe even more fantastic.

1:11.6

Yeah.

1:12.6

But it's a good question as to where lesbians are right now.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from spiked, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of spiked and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.