# @pinknews on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-11-06T09:47:57.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** PinkNews (@pinknews) — https://gondola.cc/pinknews

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Only Connect host Victoria Coren Mitchell has pleaded with ‘gender-critical’ activist Graham Linehan to stop his “relentless” messages regarding trans rights.

Writing on X this week, Linehan tagged Coren Mitchell in a post to ask whether a contestant on the show should be allowed in women’s spaces. “Hey Victoria Cohen,” he wrote, “should ‘Emily’ be allowed in women’s sports and spaces? What about female-only shelters and rape crisis centres? A yes or no will suffice!”

Posting a screenshot of the message, she replied: “In my experience Graham, *nothing* will suffice to stop you pestering me. You seem to really want a rise out of me, and I’m not someone who’s comfortable with anger."

“Only Connect is just a harmless quiz show. I try to ignore your relentless messages like I would with any other troll. But on this occasion, out of respect for the friendly relationship we used to have and the brilliant writer you used to be, I will ask you one more time to please, please, please leave us alone. If you are still in there somewhere: stop it. You MUST be better than this.”

#LGBTQAlly #OnlyConnect #GrahamLinehan #LGBTQNews #TransAlly

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onlyconnect, grahamlinehan, lgbtqnews, lgbtqally, transally

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