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The Sunday Times published over 52 anti-trans stories in a single year, that's more than 1 a week. I know several folk who started referring to it as The Sunday Transphobe, and I started to feel like I was in Groundhog Day with finding myself refuting the hit pieces every weekend
I don't know about the Transgender Agenda but there's definitely something going on at ST towers. Feels like a 90s cartoon by this point, esp as they pop up early on weekends to try their latest nefarious plan to g̶e̶t̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶G̶a̶d̶g̶e̶t̶ stop trans ppl.
Given they've mostly isolated themselves ideologically, I might start referring to the Sunday Times anti-trans crew as Gilligan's Island.
it's a Saturday evening in the UK so you can ask "what trans hitpiece will appear in the Sunday Times tomorrow"
and sure enough, there we go.
They're planning to misrepresent regret rates to be higher than they are.
and sure enough, there we go.
They're planning to misrepresent regret rates to be higher than they are.
THAT'S NOT EVEN THE ONLY ONE because they ALSO have a moral panic piece on the *front page* about 'transgender wings' in prisons, by someone (Andrew GiIligan) whose career these days literally just seems to be writing these attack pieces and whipping up moral panic.
One of these attack pieces would be upsetting enough but you could try carefully debunking it, but several of these, every single week? You can't keep up. You get exhausted.
And regular readers end up absorbing this drip feed of moral panic, misrepresentation, and slander.
And regular readers end up absorbing this drip feed of moral panic, misrepresentation, and slander.
Chances are you won't have noticed this campaign going on if you're not trans but it's terrifying in its persistence, and uncomfortably obsessive. A low key climate of fear for UK trans people.
Wonder how many UK trans ppl tell if it's Sunday or not by whether there's some trans moral panic on the front page of the newspapers, and then get utterly thrown those odd times when, say, the Telegraph decides to on Tuesday declare on its front page that trans ppl eat bees.
The thing is, so many of these press stories are basically lies. For example, press regulator IPSO found the Times to be *worse than the Mail* last year, in a large part because of their anti-trans campaign. tabloidcorrections.wordpress.com/2019/01/07/dai…
Headlines like this one have done a tonne of damage, and a retraction printed almost a year later in a buried part of the paper doesn't even begin to cover it because the lie has now become 'public knowledge'.
There are lot of these. Even in the past few days, the Times were brought up on a hugely misleading, damaging story from last summer. pressgazette.co.uk/sunday-times-p…
They lie, the lies whip up hatred and hostility, and they effectively get away with it.
That's not press, that's propaganda.
That's not press, that's propaganda.
In the latest front page trans hitpiece from the Sunday Times, they're not even hiding how it's Section 28 all over again. 
Cis LGB people attacking the T should realise they're not going to be spared in all of this, ostracising those below you won't stop you being ostracised in turn.
Section 28 wasn't even that long ago and affected he lives of millions of people. Its repercussions are still felt today but it's been swept under the carpet, and people don't notice when it starts to creep back under a different name.
Here's the *Education Secretary* joining in this Section 28 revival, effectively stating that it's not respectable to be gay or trans and that they should be not talked about.
IDEK what he thinks a trans relationship is, incidentally. Presumably any relationship that includes a trans person, because dating us is apparently as bad as being us in the eyes of the man responsible for what our children are learning.
