For years, the Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan has attacked and disparaged the transgender community on his social media accounts, alienating friends, cratering his career, and even destroying his marriage in the process. But it was only this week that he found himself on trial for allegedly harassing teenage trans activist Sophia Brooks — a charge he has vehemently denied.

On the stand, Linehan sought to present himself as a crusading truth-teller rather than an agitator, though he seemed determined to make a spectacle nonetheless: On Thursday, before the proceedings got underway, he stood outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London wearing a sandwich board that displayed the slogans, “There’s no such thing as a ‘transgender child'” and, “Keep men out of women’s sports.”

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