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.
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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A big part of why those policing systems function to make harms worse is precisely the same reason the political establishment are rallying behind Graham Linehan as a free speech warrior - they're not interested in stopping harm but in reinforcing the current political order and hierarchy.