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    Media-fuelled transphobia driving ‘hostile environment’ for trans people, report finds
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    Media-fuelled transphobia driving ‘hostile environment’ for trans people, report finds

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    1. DentalATT on

      Not just the media.

      The government, the NHS, influential billionaries and the court system seem to be doing what they can to support the rampant transphobia in this country as well.

    2. M_M_X_X_V on

      Reminder that the Daily Mail ran “Hurrah for the Blackshirts” in 1934 and it was written by Viscount Rothermere, the owner at the time and great grandfather of the current owner.

    3. MondeyMondey on

      Yeah they tried making them public enemy number one for no reason! Shit was incredibly fucking mean

    4. threewholefish on

      Hmm, I wonder if being told to hate people results in negative consequences for those people…

    7. Ver_Void on

      Oh wow I hadn’t noticed for you see I had been living under a large rock in a dark cave with noise cancelling headphones and no Internet

    9. mayasux on

      I left the UK in 2019 because I felt that the UK was behind other countries regarding transphobia. I had just endured 5 years of a child’s mental health clinic that tried to dissuade me from being trans, before finally starting the at the time, 4 year long waitlist. I knew some trans friends who were victims of assault, and the few out trans people at my college was mercilessly bullied for it.

      Even then, the UK didn’t feel like it would get better any time soon.

      I don’t think we expected to see it get catastrophically worse though. I think, in times of hardships, minorities could tell themselves things would one day get better. I don’t see any future where the UK gets better, and that depresses me to no end. Our “left wing” party under Labour is what ushered in so much transphobia and allowed a rotten culture of hatred to manifest. Within the mainstream, we have no options, yet outside of the mainstream parties we’re told that we’d be selling the nation to Farage if we don’t vote in our abusers.

      I moved to Canada. Not even the conservatives are as transphobic as British Labour. One tried to campaign off of it, the language was nowhere near as hateful, and he lost. Now we have a PM, who while I don’t like is a banker, he has a trans child, so I know I’m safe here for at least another three years.

      I’m terrified to go back home. I need to, to see my Dad, but when he passes on, I doubt I’ll return unless things improve. I don’t think an US invasion could force me back. When I go back home, I kill myself. I force myself into a hoodie, I don’t go out in public, I don’t join my Dad into the big Tesco I used to go to as a kid. I don’t have it in me to eat at the cafe or go to the kebab shop that I used to love. I’m terrified and I count down the days until I can go back to Canada and live a life afforded decency again. A life that at least resembles normalcy.

    10. Whitechix on

      Crazy such an extreme minority of the country gets dehumanised this badly, doesn’t look like it’s getting much better for them as well which is bleak.

    11. 360Saturn on

      It’s a moral panic, and the reason you know it’s a moral panic is because both:

      1) transgender people used to be treated better and this modern treatment is rollback/reversal, and simultaneously

      2) propaganda and misinformation is being spread *hard* that that isn’t the case, even though *basic logic* and ability to look at *anything from legal or social history* would inform that that’s untrue.

      People that rely on lies and bad faith arguments I just can’t trust have good intentions. “I don’t think trans people should be able to do XYZ” is a fair opinion to hold. “Trans people have never existed and this is all a con to **corrupt our kids** since the pandemic” is straight up ahistorical bunkum and should be treated as such, and it isn’t being in lots of places.