‘The problem with declaring yourself a defender of all things normal and sensible is that you’re often the last to notice when you have, in fact, gone bananas.’
The embarrassing truth about Britain’s trans panic:
Condemning an entire category of people on the basis that one of them might commit a crime is the very essence of prejudice. And that prejudice plays straight into the hands of the far right.
I think this is all true...but also that the British Establishment thinks that it is the one taking the world-beating, progressive, forward thinking stance, and that when the whole "trans thing" is revealed to be a huge medical malpractice scandal, they'll have been "right all along"
I live in Malaysia, a Muslim majority conservative country where homosexuality is illegal (technically only sodomy is). I get greeted and served by trans women and men every day and nobody comments, 'that's how some people are, carry on'. I do think is some ways it is more progressive than the UK.
Except millions of us oppose them. I loathe the 'Terf Island' libelling of the whole population. Transphobic scum ≠ Britain. They're a loud-mouthed minority.
Aye. It's literally one of first things I keep pointing out when explaining to unaware people the origins of the anti-trans vendetta:
"look at all their supposed research, look at all their supposed experts, look at all their funding; it's all the same people, etc from England. ask yourself why."
