Transphobes: "How dare you ask for 5. You can't take that 5 away from us"
Trans folks: "How are we taking anything from you?"
Transphobes: "Because the idea of you being at 0 personally offends us"
The media: "Trans people steal 5"
Trans folks: "But we didn't even get the 5..."
Transphobes: "But you being at 0 in itself is offensive to us. Therefore you are taking 5 from us"
Trans folks: "That makes no goddam sense"
The media: "Trans folks respond with online abuse to different opinions"
Trans folks:
The media: "Trans people have 8, we should remove 8 and bring them to 0 like everone else."
Trans folks: "No we fucking don't. Still at -5"
Government: "We will work to strike a balance"
Trans folks: "Are you going to take away 8? We only have -5!"
*No response for 7 months*
Government: "We have binned our attempt to get trans people from -5 to -4 because it turns out they have 8 so all is well. We will announce further measures in due course."
The media: "This is good but does not go far enough"
Trans folks: "...should we just leave?"
Famous author: "Trans people being a thing takes away 50 from me because I was abused"
Trans folks: "No we haven't! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT"
Media: "Trans folks abuse famous author, was what they said transphobic? No it wasn't. We have decided"
Trans folks: "Maybe we should just stop talking, go into hiding. Every time we say anything it comes back to bite us."
The government, the media and transphobes:
Media: "Fuck trans folks"
Trans folks: "WE DIDN'T EVEN SAY ANYTHING"
Media: "Trans folks attempt to silence free speech"
Trans folks: "Fuck you, fuck this, time to fight"
Years later.
Former transphobes: "Cannot believe people were so transphobic back then"
Media: "Trans folks have endured but now they have equality and we were with that all along. But hearing those 'polyamorous' people want to steal 5 from religious people..."
Trans folks:
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This is a thread about why the Sunday Times report about Rosie Duffield is probably bollocks and the result of weaselly words
CN: All of the above and transphobia, references to non-binary people being blasted by Duffield and just...you get the idea.
ONWARD WITH THE THREAD.
The Sunday Times has a report about Rosie Duffield
Headline & subheading: "Speaker’s anger as extremists terrorise Labour MP Rosie Duffield
"Threats after feminist branded ‘transphobic’"
What kind of threats? Death threats? Violence?
Let's take a look at the article. THREAD
Opening paragraph...we learn from this that she has received "online threats"
So we know how she got them. Not clear yet on what kind of threats. If they were death threats or threats of violence...wouldn't they be in the headline? Maybe not. Let's keep going.
Hadley Freeman promoted the idea that trans people shouldn't be allowed to access public spaces that human beings need to participate in society
She's now quit columns, bemoaning how some take opinions they disagree with as a sign that the person with them is a bad person (1/5)
Earlier this year she put out a column specifically about how she has lost friends because she is anti-trans and how this isn't right because people should be able to disagree and still be friends.
(2/5)
How disconnected from reality do you have to be to think that holding the opinion that a minority is less deserving of accessing public spaces because they are that minority...isn't going to make a some people think "this is a bad person"?
Hmm....they are going for the whole gillick competence thing eh?
Almost as if that was the plan the whole goddam time.
Gillick Competence is a thing used to measure a childs ability to consent to medical treatment. It became a thing because a kid wanted birth control.
Considering that both Paul Conrathe and Alasdair Henderson (Bell's barrister) are pro life christian fundies it is ASTONISHING to hear that they want to destroy the thing that allows under 18's to have abortions and get trans healthcare.
Maybe cis people, famous or not, need to really think about what JK Rowling actually said and maybe ask why trans people would be so angry
We didn't attack her because of a 'difference in opinion'
She told the world that we shouldn't be allowed in certain public spaces
Thread
It has been over a year and still random journalists are asking random famous people for their opinion on the whole JK anti trans stuff and STILL this same line gets trotted out
"The attacks on JK Rowling just for having an opinion, ghastly"
They never look at what she said.
So here it is, what she said boiled down from 4k words to...some words but less...
Trans women shouldn't be allowed in single sex spaces
Trans men, adorable but probably deluded and autistic
Trans kids aren't real
I have been at a location where asylum seekers are placed to wait until the home office deals with their applications to remain in the UK. I have talked to many residents and talked a lot with a transgender resident. Here is a thread about what I have seen, been told and thought
The one thing that is universal amongst residents I’ve talked to is the food being awful. I was told that they bring in food and it is often served cold. A diabetic resident told me that the food makes them sick and they get no help to manage their condition
Here is tonight’s dinner. It’s not great. It was served cold. It went uneaten. It looked worse in person…