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Did you know that the far-right have a strategy to "separate the T" from the rest of the LGBT community & isolate trans people from their allies? splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017…
Today's Telegraph carries an article suggesting that "transgenderism" poses an existential threat to lesbians:
The Dangerous Speech project highlights the danger of presenting a minority group as a "mortal threat". With trans people already facing sustained hostility from a number of UK media outlets, today's headline from the Telegraph has raised new concerns dangerousspeech.org/faq/?faq=200
This is the same Daily Telegraph that was publishing articles not so long ago denouncing "gay rights sharia"...
If you're a @Netflix customer and you're concerned about their alignment with the Telegraph's toxic coverage, you can take action by sending them a polite and friendly message encouraging them to #StopFundingHate
This is also the same Daily Telegraph that ran an article suggesting that "Gay marriage will destabilise family life" and that equal marriage was "a change too far, too soon" for Britain: web.archive.org/web/2012031710…
And as the COVID19 pandemic ravaged our country, the Daily Telegraph published an article suggesting that a "cull" of elderly people might be economically "beneficial"... metro.co.uk/2020/03/11/tel…
...then the Telegraph took 5 months to correct their misleading story suggesting that *half* of the UK's imported COVID19 infections were from Pakistan
#StopFundingHate is an online community of people who refuse to be demonised or divided against each other. Together we've helped bring about some significant changes in the UK press -but there are challenging times ahead. If you share our values, join us! stopfundinghate.info/get-involved/
Great article from PinkNews on the solidarity being shown towards trans people in response to the Daily Telegraph's toxic article: pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/28/lgb…

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