Michelle Snow
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David Tennant has more skin in the game than most people talking about trans rights
He has a trans kid.
Parents of trans kids who accept and love their kids tend to be the fiercest allies trans people have
Labour should be meeting him and Georgia, not Rowling.
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If trans people do not have access to single sex spaces then trans people do not have access to society
Anyone who argues that trans people being essentially barred from public toilets etc isn't a retraction of trans people's human rights is an absolute clown.
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It is amazing how most people know that when they see a trans person or an ally tweet "I would like to apologise to JK Rowling" it means that person got approached by lawyers threatening to ruin their life.
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A list of anti-trans (now former) MPs
Miriam Cates
Jackie Doyle-Price
Rachel Maclean
Gillian Keegan
Will add more to this thread as they come up/I find them
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The % of people who believe trans people should be able to change their birth certificates has dropped from 58% agree in 2016 to 24% agree in 2023.
The UK media began their campaign against trans people in 2016.
This thread explains what happened.
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Not sure people truly comprehend how far things have slid on trans equality
In 2016 a Tory lead committee recommended overhauling trans healthcare, de-medicalising the GRA and 20 other things.
The tory government, and the Labour party agreed
All of that is dead now
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I mean, they should be meeting and listening to trans people…but that clearly isn’t happening so if celebrity’s are going to be stakeholders based on their celebrity then David and Georgia are clearly superior choices
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TalkTV almost certainly did not include Linehan's interview because he straight up defamed a trans woman by calling her a pedophile whilst referencing an on going case where he is being sued for harrassment.
The guy is a liability to anyone who hosts him
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Here is something so many do not understand.
UK Hate crime laws are garbage. Truly garbage. And this may be the issue with the Brianna Ghey case.
To understand this, you need to know about UK hate crime law. Here is a VERY basic explainer from me...
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Do not let them pretend that transphobia had nothing to do with Brianna Ghey's murder.
She deserved better. She deserved so much more in life.
The UK anti-trans media fueled the hate that lived in her killers' hearts.
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BREAKING NEWS
The goverment in their announcement that the ban on trans youths receving puberty blockers would be extended, shared a PDF they said would advise pharmacists on how to support youths during the ban
The PDF was published before the Puberty ban was enacted
(Thread)
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People talking about how it is horrible that trans police officers could do cavity searches on female suspects is the best example yet of how anti-trans activists are absolutely fine with violence against women as long as it is only cis people who are allowed to do it.
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@Robbill123
That’s almost what Kemi Badenoch has said in the past
Which might explain why he takes issue with her.
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The nightmare scenario for trans people in the UK is the Equality Act definition of 'sex' being changed to 'biological sex' because that will allow anyone who runs anything at all to discriminate against trans people.
What does that mean?
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Liz Truss...arguably the MP most responsible for elevating the anti-trans moral panic to government heights has lost her seat.
Bye bye fuckhead.
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Nick Flecher
Andrea Jenkyns
Joanna Cherry
Jacob Rees-Mogg
More to come, Still got David Davies in Monmothshire, and Danny Kruger in Wiltshire East to call.
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I have watched it all happen, up close and I still cannot believe it. This whole thing is framed as trans people just appearing out of nowhere 8 years ago but those 2016 committee recommendations were the results of DECADES of campaigning and activism by trans people
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We won. We won the argument in 2015.
The debate happened. And we won.
And it all got destroyed any way.
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Therese Coffey
Peter Bottomly
oooph, bad night to be an anti-trans nightmare.
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I have never seen Keir Starmer so visibly angry, stumbling over his words before.
I truly didn't expect this. The way him and the frontbench talk about trans issues is infuriating.
But this is...I don't know what to make of this. He is so visibly angry.
Here is the full exchange. Starmer furious after Sunak mocks trans people with Brianna Ghey’s mother in the room.
#PMQs
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I mean literally decades. We got so close to the fruits of our labour paying off and then it all got binned, and terrifying things are on the horizon.
And the opposition party are worse on trans issues than the tories 8 years ago
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I hate how trans issues have been folded into a culture war
Trans people need healthcare, legal recognition, equal opportunities and maybe not being framed as a threat every other day by politicians and the media
Trans issues are always framed as theory, not material
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On the contrary, healthcare for trans youths is being restricted, the Equality Act is at risk of its trans protections being destroyed by the current government, the gov are working on outing trans youths to potentially unsupportive parents and the Labour party agrees
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And David Davies in Monmothshire has lot his seat.
One of the earliest, and first massive transphobes in parliament
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As someone who was there, who watched it all, I have been screwed for months. Just realised this is grief
The last 8 years have been like watching a doctor give a loved one the all clear and then watching as they slowly die anyway
It will take decades to reverse this
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Aberystwyth Rocsoc has a fucking problem and I am never coming back because for 3 hours last night I was scared of getting attacked by actual fucking Nazis and was gaslighted to think I was being paranoid, absurd and the potential cause of problems.
Fuck that noise.
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Over half of those recomendations are suicide prevention crisis services.
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@10dai
That allowing the presence of trans people in various spaces is dangerous when there is no evidence on earth for that being true and has the effect of creating a fear of trans people in society.
To paraphrase a better writer than me...she creates phobias...of trans people.
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Last night I was at a Uni reunion in Aberystwyth and a bunch of guys from a motorcycle gang showed up.
This was their logo. You might recognise this from Nazi SS officers uniforms.
Strap in - a lesson in cis people
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I don't know how to explain to people the effect this stuff has apart from the obvious harm that would be done to trans kids in schools
To be constantly framed by the media and the government that what you are is a threat that needs to be managed does things to you mentally
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1987, Margaret Thatcher: 'Children who need to be taught traditional moral values, are instead being taught they have an inalienable right to be gay'. Ushered in the misery of s28, blighting a generation. Today 👇 the same polemic, the same callous disregard for LGBTQ+ children.
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Pride in London generates £23 million for the London economy. Over a million people on the streets buying drinks, food and everything else.
Not mentioning that in a report about the cost of prides is an ideologically driven distortion to direct hate towards lgbt culture
🏳️🌈Taxpayers footed a bill of more than £500,000 during Pride month across the public sector which included a drag story time event, rainbow flags and T-shirts
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...it is unclear if the government's thinking is either that they know what they are doing will excacerbate an already ongoing epidemic of mental health crises in the trans youth community and are too inept to provide actual real support...or whether they just don't give a fuck.
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The document however does not appear to contain any advice on how to actually support transgender youths through this ban as the document is a digital file that is unaware of the ban, and appears to assume that the supply of puberty blockers is still legal
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The PDF, published by the General Pharmacetical council, advises pharmacists not to discriminate against transgender patients when deciding to prescribe medications that were only banned for trans youths, a month after it's publication.
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In the UK there are 5 characteristics that are covered by hate crime law
Race, Sexuality, Trans, disabled and religion
But these are implemented in a number of different laws and as such, they are not treated equally and it's a complicated mess
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With pharamcists receving outdated advice on how to prescribe medications that they legally cannot prescribe, and young trans people and their familys being offered instead of puberty blocking medication...the samaritans...
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Medical scandals tend to feature a load of victims speaking out. See the campaign against using internal mesh that ruined countless lives
The GIDS "medical scandal" must be the first where nobody can find the countless ruined lives, just hundreds of adults saying there are.
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If I came out as trans this year instead of 2012 I wouldn't make it
The message from all levels of the UK is that trans people's presence is undesirable and even dangerous
I would give away everything I own if just one anti-trans politician or activist could know how that feels
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Didn't want to come back but this felt too important.
According to a report in the Telegraph the government intend to "clampdown" on "trans ideology" in the NHS by changing the NHS constitution to allow banning trans women from women's wards.
Here's the info you need
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I went to school under Section 28 and it almost killed me. The
@ALLIANCELGB
and
@Transgendertrd
are transphobic hate groups advocate a Section 28 for trans youth. They are both followed by equality minister
@trussliz
.
Here is my piece in
@theipaper
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Can't believe it took me 8 years to realise that the most powerful thing you can say in the face of transphobia is: "I am a woman, a trans woman and I like myself & love being trans"
Best gift the bigots gave me this week: the realisation that they can't touch me.
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There are basically two different ways hate crimes are dealt with in the UK
As "aggravated offences" that must be proven at trial, which currently only cover race and religion
And "enhanced sentencing" which can be handed down by a judge and covers all 5 characteristics
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Essentially there is no way for a trans hate crime in the UK to be treated as an "aggravated offence" so that leaves "enhanced sentencing
If this system was fair, would this have resulted in the Ghey case being treated as an aggravated offence?
No idea.
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BUT the point of this thread is that there is more to this. Transphobia may well be a factor when it comes to this not being treated as a hate crime...
But it is also likely that the state of UK hate crime law is garbage and means hate crimes that look like hate crimes...
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To all the wankers replying to this...
...you are very sad people and I value my time far more than you deserve any explanation or response.
Muted the thread.
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...do not get argued as such.
I think the state of hate crime law in the UK needs to be looked at and changed drastically. People much, much, MUCH more knowledgeable (the Law commision) are of the same opinion.
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The government claimed the document was: "...a resource for pharmacy professionals to support them in providing information, support and services to children and young people with gender incongruence or dysphoria."
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The government also shared a link to The National Referral Support Service for NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Services stating that they have a list of organisations that young trans people and their familys can contact for support during this time.
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They recommended to the government reform on the basis of treating all five characteristics the same.
The government has yet to respond. But I think anyone who is alive, with a brain, can guess how this gov would go on this.
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There was a pathway for Graham Linehan to have been anti-trans without losing everything. Most manage this.
He could have kept working, tweeted a whole lot less, and used that money to fund the anti-trans movement like JK does
Why didn't he do this? I have a hypothesis
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JK and the rest of the anti trans movement spread a lie that making things fairer in hate crime laws would result in misgendering being an "aggravated offence" and that is just fucking insanity if you do one seconds worth of reading about how hate crimes in the UK actually work
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Here's a story about me doing work experience at PinkNews for a month, somehow breaking a story that went national and how it was decided that I should be the one to go on Channel 5 news and represent PinkNews to talk about it
I have mixed feelings about this. This is a thread
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Just noticed a major shift in The Times reporting on trans related anything
Referring to trans women as "man/men who identifies as a/woman" used to be something that would come up in opinion columns
Twice in the last month news reports have referred to trans women this way
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I don't know the specifics of the Ghey case. I wasn't in court. I am looking in from the outside as much as most of us are.
But this could be a chance to really press the point that hate crime laws in the UK barely work and are fundamentally an unfair hierachy
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People should remember that the randomised control trial everyone is talking about included a bunch of trans people who needed healthcare and didn’t get it to show how much things sucked for them
A bunch of trans guys suffered for this
Remember that
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Hey
@wesstreeting
Is it true that you extended the blockers ban because Starmer wants to avoid negative media/giving ammo to the Torys?
Also, the gov shared a list of mostly suicide crisis services in the announcment
If patients aren't in danger from the ban, why share that?
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@transscribe
The victim is cls
If she was trans they would be, at best, silent or at worst, joining in.
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BONUS ROUND - I got into this because the Labour party promised that they would actually try and fix this
Remember those "JK Rowling will gladly serve two years in prison for misgendering" stories?
This is what they were talking about and it will be a battle ground for us soon
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But all these cis people didn’t give a shit except 3-5 people, my friends.
Later I saw the guy who tried to tell me not to be trouble having a real laugh with one of the Nazi adorned bikers.
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Every time I go back to the Cass interim report I am reminded that many politicians and bad faith actors outright lie what it says.
The report literally says they are not making any formal recommendations on blockers
The report commends GIDs staff
Ideology is trumping facts
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I got the feeling that in my brief absence an argument had erupted between the none nazi gang attendees. One of the (I assume) organisers of the reunion came up to me and begged me not to cause any trouble.
Me. Me being the trouble.
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An analysis of Posie Parker's anti-trans political party, The Party of Women in the general election
0 seats won out of 16 contested.
5077 votes
Candidates lose their deposit (£500) if they fail to gain 5% of the vote
It is possible the PoW lost as much as £8000 in total
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Over the night I was told only some of this gang are Nazis. Not all. I was told I was paranoid. I was told I was being unfair because there is a difference between thinking a symbol looks cool and believing in nazi crap.
For a lot of the night it felt like I was the problem
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I wasn’t the problem.
This gang have literally hosted combat 18 events
(They claim they were duped…which is fucking absurd, this gang was born from football hooligans in Cardiff…like they didn’t know who C18 are)
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Maybe...maybe nobody should be allowed to sexually assault anyone they like?
Maybe that's the issue here?
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These numbers come from the latest social attitudes survey, a survey that has measured British people's attitudes on a variety of topics for decades.
The writers noted that this may be referring just to "self ID" instead of an overall fall in support for trans equality
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Serious question
Labour saying they welcome the the consultation/trans kids guidance is being seen by many as another reason to not vote for Labour
So who should we vote for? And if voting and electoral politics won't help, what actually will?
What will stop this?
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So I was…alarmed. I’ve not exactly been around outright Nazis LOADS in my life but I know that if it quacks like a duck, it’s a fucking duck.
The venue disagreed. They let them in.
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Alright, so the anti-trans network of orgs, real and otherwise, will be beginning their attempts to lobby Labour into being the worst.
If you are trans and you want to make sure your future isn't awful, you have to act now.
Go meet your new MP, and keep showing up
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Going to parliament today
If you are trans, please respond to this question so I can read your response to the MPs that show up:
What is life like for trans people in the UK?
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I walked out. I was angry but mostly I was scared because I was very much looking and sounding like a trans woman and loads of guys with fucking Nazi shit all over them.
I then realised that I didn’t have a working key for the Airbnb, so I went back in.
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In 1987, the press did a similar thing to gay people, based around the HIV epidemic. The social attitudes survey reported that 64% of people in the UK thought that homosexual relationships were always wrong.
Parliament passed Section 28 the following year.
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Several major things have happened during this period that might explain how things have changed so much.
1. UK media reports on trans issues increased by 400% between 2015 and 2020 as a result of a parliamentary inquiry into Trans equality that recommended 'Self ID'
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It is astonishing to see in pure numbers the cause and effect of the press on public attitudes.
They created a problem out of policy that had been settled for years.
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But so what? Right? Many places will still choose to be inclusive of trans people, right?
The UK media has whipped up anti-trans activism from maybe a couple of hundred people into a thousands strong force run by a kids author billionaire.
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If you want to know why the Labour Party doesn’t take any action against transphobes in the party, it’s because even if they wanted to, the second they did the entire press would report for the next 6 months on how Keir Starmer hates women in his own party
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2. JK Rowling beginning to publicly oppose 'Self ID' and transgender equality in general in 2018.
Which coincides almost perfectly with the rise in disagreement with trans people changing their birth certificates.
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They will lobby everything to discriminate. They already do! That is all they have ever done!
They will go after every shop, public service, leisure center, refuge, hospital, clinic, everywhere they can.
They will be backed by the national press at every turn
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It means that a women's reading group will be allowed to ban trans women
It means a men's Alcoholics anonymous meeting can ban trans men
It means employers forcing their trans employees to use the wrong toilets
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If the equality act is changed, maybe that on its own won't change much (unlikely, but possible)
But you can be damned sure that the anti trans movement will absolutely push everywhere they can to discriminate against us and make life absolutely impossible.
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What is happening to trans people has happened before. The only difference between gay people in the 80's and now is that gay people didn't experience such a massive drop in support.
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Anti-trans, gender critical activists and their UK media colleagues not only seek to remove trans people's human rights but also actively support abuse and arguably, sexual assaults, as long as they are committed by clsgender police officers
This is a thread. Read it all.
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So, on behalf of all trans people in the UK
To every journalist who has covered this beat for the Times, Telegraph, Guardian, and all the rest.
Thanks.
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Here is the thing about Labour.
They say transphobic shit all the time. But then their policy proposals (actual policy’s, not just sound bites from a tv studio sofa) have been positive. Not going far enough, but no bans (or reversals of whatever the tories do
That’s…weird
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And trans people in the UK are going to be living with the effects of this for years to come.
And now, whoever wins the general election, will have an incentive to 'solve' the problem.
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I’ve done work for Rusty Quill as an audio editor on Enthusigasm, Stellar Firma, Outliers and patreon stuff.
That medium post doesn’t match my experience of working there.
Hell, mine was the exact opposite.
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“Why should I refer to a trans person by their chosen pronouns?”
That shit gets talked about more than the fact that trans people are dying on waiting lists for treatments cis people can get from their GP
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This is a godawful interview. Truly awful.
How does an LGBT outlet not ask "how will trans people live with being essentially banned from public toilets under your plans?"
Exclusive:
@RishiSunak
addresses his infamous trans joke and explains why the
@Conservatives
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#GeneralElection2024
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So what is going to happen next?
The Conservatives are doing exactly the same thing as they did in the eighties. Their manifesto is full of promises to strip trans people of equality protections and possibly the ability to change their legal sex.
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This moral panic over trans people has been disastrous. And it doesn't look like it will end until a government passes incredibly harmful and dangerous policy to "solve" the problem.
This culture war isn't over yet. And fixing this is going to take decades.
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Trans women get gaslighted, threatened, condescended to, belittled, and discriminated against all the time.
All. The. Time.
But when we show any emotion about any of that, we are framed as unhinged.
And then there are people out there who say we don't suffer misogyny
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What is striking about this is how these drops coincide with media reporting, of the parliamentary trans equality inquiry, the subsequent attempt by Theresa May's Conservative government's attempt to push the inquiry's recommendations and JK Rowling's tweets.
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3. The Boris Johnson government, in 2020, via then minister for women and equalities Liz Truss, starting to take anti trans equality positions
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For reasons that escape me, I am going to parliament tomorrow to talk to MPs (those who show up anyway) about...*vaguely gestures at everything"
Feels wrong me going there to 'represent' trans people without at least asking...
...what do you want me to say to these people?
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The results showed that in 2021 roughly a third of UK people thought trans equality stuff had gone too far (33%)
In 2023 that became almost half (47%)
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So they looked at another question, asking if attempts to give equal opportunities to trans people had gone to far, or not far enough...
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