Thread by @OwenMacdonald8

Media: "are trans people actually real and legitimate?"

Trans people: "yes"
LGBTQ activists: "yes"
Scientists: "yes"

Media: "this seems tricky and biased, let's be fair and interview an alternative opinion"

Fascist: "trans schmans, they're gross"

Media: "how insightful!"

"I don't understand this gender stuff"

NB person: elaborate explanation
Trans person: detailed personal account
Psychologist: several medical studies + papers

Media: "...

Some bigoted twit: "doo hoo only two genders I'm a helicopter"

Media: "give this guy a column!"

Media: "are trans women invading women's spaces"

"trans women are literally women"
"I'm a cis woman and have never felt threatened by trans women"
"why are you spreading far right propaganda-"

Media: "you called us Nazis! How unfair!"

Media: "are trans women women? let's debate-"

"YES"

Media: "let's be impartial, here's got upcoming journalist Bea Gott with her view"

Bea: "well [psuedo-scientific crap indistinguishable from Nazi garbage]"

trans ppl: "deliberately misgendering trans people is an act of hate and ought to be punished-"

media: "trans people want DEATH SQUADS if you whisper a bad word about them, have we gone TOO FAR"

Media: "let's publish a heartfelt story about trans people"

"I'm a trans man happily married with kids"
"..."

"My girlfriend of 20 years is trans and I love her"
"..."

"I was trans but then I regretted it and now I'm NORMAL again"
"perfect!"

Media: "ooh, we've got a story about a family row"

Trans man: "my family are conservative shit bags that refuse to acknowledge my transition and hate me"

Man's parents: "we lost our daughter to sin!"

Media: "has the trans cult gone too far? Family devastated by gender change"

Media: "trans children?!?!?"

Trans child: "I am happier now that my parents correctly gender me"
Parents: "it's our duty to let our kid express themselves how they want to"
Neighbour: "pretty sure they're kiddie fiddlers lol"

Media: "children being FORCED into transness!"

Media: "are trans kids being MUTILATED-"

Scientist: "actually teenagers receiving puberty blockers is perfectly safe and psychologically healthy, improves their wellbeing, wards away dysphoria and is their own choice"

Media: "how the trans cult is taking over science!"

trans person: "...and all of the above is why our newspapers are anti-trans and terrible"

cis person: "yeah but there's two sides to everything, aren't you being a bit unreasonable? this is how Nazis win you know"

trans: "..."

cis: "don't be rude, I'm a valuable ally!"