Thread by @mimmymum

Two days ago I wrote an article for @gaystarnews about the meteoric rise in anti-transgender hate in the UK ➡️

Today, The Sunday Times published its most dehumanising transphobic article yet! 😕 gaystarnews.com/article/is-the…

Today’s article in The Sunday Times is just the tip of the iceberg in what has become a relentless barrage of unending transphobic, trans-hostile and insidiously undermining articles published over the last 18 months!😕

The Times has systematically and repeatedly painted a picture of trans people as a “lobby” group of dogmatic and threatening “activists” who have some sort of unlimited power to “demand” rights of politicians and policy makers.

The truth is far from this.

Times journalists have consistently labelled trans people “bullies” & aggressors - Repeatedly drip-feeding the British public a negative narrative about the transgender community.

Often headlines are inflammatory and misleading - legally compliant by judicious use of “quotes”!

Many of the misleading stories in The Times have been fed by virulent anti-transgender campaigners to ‘sympathetic’ Times journalists.

Targeting regular trans people or small groups and placing them in the glare of the media spotlight and nationwide scrutiny.

Intimidating.

Times articles are regularly positioned to undermine trans kids and any support for them. Promoting fear in parents that their children may be “transed” or that trans children are a potential threat.

Teachers and organisations following the 2010 Equality Act is considered “bad”.

Criminals (who happen to be transgender) are routinely used as a ‘scare tactic’ by The Times - to cement in the UK public’s mind that trans women ‘pose a threat to women’.

Say it enough times, and people believe it! 😞

In fact, over the last 18 months, The Times have taken any opportunity to put down trans people, paint them as demanding, strange, weird and ‘other’ - dehumanising, demeaning and demonising them to the British public.

This has been a concerted campaign of anti-trans propaganda.

Whilst painting trans people as aggressors and potential rapists, The Times have looked to position themselves as ‘calm’ and ‘balanced’ and supporters of ‘free speech’ (all the while promoting a singular, inflammatory trans-hostile perspective week after week)

The Times is not the only ‘culprit’ - National mainstream news media in the U.K. has now got to such a dire situation that newspapers are being called out by international branches of their own publication for their trans-hostile journalism ⤵️
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

You would think that The @guardian as the UK’s ‘left wing’ national newspaper, would be supporting #trans equality? But no, even it has turned against the transgender community in favour of ‘clicks’ for conflict! 😕
gaystarnews.com/article/guardi…

Online platforms are also actively campaigning against trans people. Most noticeably Mumsnet - now notoriously known as the ‘4chan for radical feminists’.

There now seems no escape from the hostility against transgender people in the UK? 😕
intersectional.home.blog/2018/11/10/the…

.@victor_madrigal made an amazing statement on behalf of the @UN last month, calling out violence against #transgender people ⤵️
ohchr.org/en/issues/sexu…

While the UK may not have the violence seen in other countries, it’s starting in the UK ⤵️
theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/o…

The UK media definitely has a large part to play in shaping the way the public see trans people.

But who is there to stand up for the transgender community if the UK news media decide to turn against them? 😕

gaystarnews.com/article/negati…

I write this tweet thread on behalf of the UK trans community. For all the trans people without access to a massively influential national news media platform.

I have to resort to Twitter, and my comparatively few followers, but hope someone will take notice and action 🙏🏻

Following my original tweet thread on 11.11.18 The Times have stepped up their vitriolic attacks on trans people and trans kids in particular 😕

I’m therefore adding to this tweet thread further proof of their targeted trans-hostile articles...

https://x.com/mimmymum/status/1074143537158127622?s=21

Here is the latest coordinated attack on @Mermaids_Gender by The Times “journalist” Janice Turner! ⤵️
archive.is/GPb5i

This, despite being provided with reputable evidence in Mermaids public statement (ignored by The Times, of course!) 😣⤵️
facebook.com/19204638422547…

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