In #Todmorden around 5 years ago and everyone started calling the local 6ft, aggressive TiM “she”, it was very disconcerting because I saw something else completely. I saw a raging fem-man. I thought the locals had been hypnotised or gone psycho. Then “she” threatened me.
https://twitter.com/cheezycubane/status/1635393805313806336
Which wasn’t so much of a surprise, as he’d heard rumours that I was a “lesbian activist”. I was, but denied it. I also called him “she” once, in order that he didn’t punch me. Does male violence disappear when you put badly applied make-up on? No it doesn’t!
Then I was banned from local pubs because I “made him feel unsafe”. I’m 5ft4in. I lost security work and found out I’d been labelled a “transphobe”. That mean community isolation. These people were all white, straight, middle-class, educated, Left wingers. Posh-kids! All “queer”.
Then my vehicles stated getting damaged, so I had to fit cctv to my properly and hide my car across the town, so it wouldn’t get targeted. I then had obscene graffiti written about me “sleeping with dogs”. Then graffiti across the road likening me to a man. (The irony!)
In three years I had 14 hate crimes committed against me and I had to relocate with the help of the council, Victim Support and the Police, to an unknown location. I was terrified for years. I’m now safe.
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