tw : transphobia, sui

I'm not sure what her aim was by sending me this cruel and vile message, but I hope she knows that it's only going to energize me in making more empowering and trans-positive art. We need to make this world safer. Even though this might be fake, if you could see the sheer amount of hate messages I get on a daily basis from parents threatening violence if their child came out as trans, it wouldn't be so hard to believe.

TERFs have spent the whole week harassing and threatening the venue where I was supposed to speak on Sunday in Manchester, a few miles from where Brianna Ghey was brutally murdered.
It only took an hour, on a Friday evening, before finding a new venue. I have been on this speaking tour since last September, mostly because it's my last one (my husband and I are having a child) so I made a point of accepting every invitation. But I don't do it out of generosity.

After more than a hundred incredible public events without any disruption, I was perhaps heading to my UK tour with too much optimism.
For the past week, I've been under the constant fire of some of the most virulent transphobes from the country. Their tactics and accusations are disgusting. They have targeted almost every single venue and organizer I've been working with. And by targeted, I mean harassed, stalked and threatened. They attacked people's family and employers.

Come meet the talk of the town! If you're in a UK town! Because there are so many transphobes over there! And they're obsessed with me! And their MPs are writing letters to the city councils to try to get my events canceled 😂 what even is my life Major high-fives to the organizers and venues who decided to stand up against the hate, fearmongering and defamation.

Glasgow facebook.com/events/7417297…
Edinburgh facebook.com/events/1218698…
Aberdeen facebook.com/events/8594637…
Manchester 4pm : facebook.com/events/5668832…

As a trans creator whose work went viral an awful lot of times and who was targeted by so many hate campaigns that I lost count of them (I started publishing Assigned Male Comics 9 years ago), I think it would have been very easy for me to go down a bitter path. 🧵 Our communities are merciless. Obsessed with ideological purity. Our siblings will devore us for the smallest misstep. It's very easy to become jaded, when you give your entire being to a cause that will treat you as disposable as soon as it's done draining all your energy.