Linehan has compared the medical transition of children to Nazi experiments on children, saying: "If you were around the time of something terrible happening like Nazism, would you be one of the people who said, 'This is wrong,' despite being opposed?" In the same interview, he described the trans movement as "provid cover" for "fetishists, con-men, and simply abusive misogynists". In a statement to "PinkNews" about his comments, Linehan said, "when a magazine purportedly for gay people collaborates in homosexual erasure by indulging the straight fantasy that men can be lesbians, something has gone deeply wrong". In 2018, Linehan praised anti-transgender protesters at that year's London Pride event as "heroes".