It’s very curious to compare and contrast the likes of Bob Vylan and Kneecap and the media and politics reaction vs Linehan, it’s weird how free speech works isn’t it
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#ActuallyAutistic cis woman, very sweary. "Could achieve great things if she didn't talk so much". Love books, hate bigots. #ProtectTransKids. She/Her
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I made a complaint over this and I encourage you all to do the same. This is what I wrote, if you're not sure what to say.
This is "gender-critical" ideology in the BBC. It's only "GCs" who talk about sex being "observed at birth" (and it's an absurdity: sex is a category, not an object of perception). "Assigned at birth" is commonplace within e.g. medicine, but the BBC has been ideologically captured by transphobes.
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This government and the Equality and Human Rights Commission have turned equality law into a tool for deciding precisely how to get away with discriminating against trans people, rather than protecting us, leading to a rash of public attacks to enforce segregation.
Statement on release of Segregation in Practice – TransActual
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I don't want meaningless senseless punishments for the guy that do nothing to protect trans people. I want actions taken that really do focus on making trans people safe. That starts with looking at the tools with which the government provides transphobic abusers to persecute us and dismantling them
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The petty and individualising frame of "hate crime" has nothing useful to say about the systemic government wide agreement that trans people's lives must be made fraught, our basic bodily functions rendered illicit when we carry them out as we have for years just like anyone else.
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If what Graham Linehan said crossed the line then what does that say about the EHRC publishing a document that says we should be banned from using public toilets? A urinary leash and endorsement to vigilante activity against us that is easily as forceful as Linehan's tweet.
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In my experience of transphobic abuse, the police and criminal justice system have tended to expand and exacerbate harms due to hateful abuse and violence against me as a trans person, because they tend to do that for most victims of "crime" and because policing and punishment doesn't actually work.
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I am much less concerned with the words people choose to express their hatred of people like me (and Graham has expressed his hatred of me personally and other trans people as well as all of us collectively, without sanction for the most part) than I am with the ways harm is organised and enacted.
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And even from a maximally pro free speech perspective the British press are failing to deal with the real issues here which is that the political and media establishment working to endorse and justify violence of the like Linehan promotes.
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The thing about "trans activism" is that it basically didn't exist in the UK as a distinct thing until the last several years, and it emerged largely in response to the wave of public transphobia. London Trans Pride first happened in 2019, in response to anti-trans obstructors at 2018 Pride.
Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.
