The language of "trans rights activists" is so sly. It implies none of us are average people who just want to support rights for trans people; people like me who can't organise their way out of a paper bag but can turn up to a protest. Trans people who just want to live and have better things to do! - ThreadSky

louiestowell.bsky.social • 6 days ago

The language of "trans rights activists" is so sly. It implies none of us are average people who just want to support rights for trans people; people like me who can't organise their way out of a paper bag but can turn up to a protest. Trans people who just want to live and have better things to do!

Reposted from Sky News

Thousands of trans rights activists gather in London after Supreme Court ruling on definition of a woman

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florilegia.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’m going to the protest today. I’m not any kind of activist: I just can’t sit by while a minority are demonised

robpountney.bsky.social•6 days ago

Probably massively outnumbered by PPL who aren't 'Trans Activists' who do see what this is, an egregious attack on the fundamental human rights of a group targeted by hate preachers
The media 'framing', it is consistent with a broader narrative normalising fascism, even ones 'who should know better'

scientits.bsky.social•6 days ago

Activist implies there’s an agenda at work, rather than just standing up for people’s rights

clarewrites.bsky.social•6 days ago

Absolutely. Human rights activists. Basic decency advocates. Or, my preferred term, ‘most people.’

louiestowell.bsky.social•6 days ago

Exactly. Some marches get to be "oh look a bunch of people are cross about something" while others are "activists"...

elisabethhobbes.co.uk•5 days ago

This was the headline of the Telegraph today. ‘Plotters’ ffs! Nicely contrasted with a big pic of someone who definitely didn’t have to take HRT or bung on a wig to get access to young girls.

aminaerin.bsky.social•6 days ago

It’s to make us sound like terrorists and against norms

louiestowell.bsky.social•6 days ago

Only just occured to me that TRA sounds like IRA...

aminaerin.bsky.social•6 days ago

Whereas anyone else is a ‘campaigner’ or women’s rights supporter

louiestowell.bsky.social•6 days ago

YUP. CAmpaigner is for stuff like breast cancer and nice fluffy things isn't it!

aminaerin.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yep they use language against us and many of the reform voting lemmings don’t even realise

mxwoermsin.gothgeek.org•6 days ago

It's also very similar to MRA (for Men's Rights Activist of course), which I don't believe is anything but intentional sly misgendering.

aminaerin.bsky.social•6 days ago

Agree

louiestowell.bsky.social•6 days ago

YUP

sinisterbulb.bsky.social•6 days ago

Exactly that. Most of us wouldn’t even give trans rights a single thought if it weren’t for the current utterly ridiculous vilification and persecution.

louiestowell.bsky.social•6 days ago

LIke...trans rights discussions should be about ensuring equal health care/inequality generally, not "do trans people have rights?"!

louiestowell.bsky.social•6 days ago

Some trans people ARE activists, of course! But this isn't using the word "activist" in a neutral, descriptive term. it implies some kind of extremism, some kind of ideology...dog whistles a go go.

europesheila.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yes. Plus the TERFs use “TRA” as a foil to “TERF”. The Guardian did it too

louiestowell.bsky.social•6 days ago

The guardian is so bad for this.

europesheila.bsky.social•6 days ago

I won’t subscribe till they change their editorial policy

brocklanders85.bsky.social•6 days ago

What is radical about believing trans women are men?

norelsa.bsky.social•6 days ago

Especially compared to how the literal professional anti trans activists, with their charities they pay themselves from etc, are always allowed their own framing choices.

ianbetteridge.com•6 days ago

And it's been consistently used across the UK media for any protest about trans rights.

lisasmuffins.bsky.social•5 days ago

A trans rights activist is the sort of person throwing Molotov cocktails at GCs. 😈

gabliotecaria.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yes, I'm still fuming about the BBC World Service, which I usually rate higher than the rest of the Beeb, framing it as "an argument between feminists and trans rights activists." Like feminists are automatically trans-exclusionary, when the opposite is true. 🤬

florilegia.bsky.social•5 days ago

Loads of feminists are intersectional!

gabliotecaria.bsky.social•5 days ago

Most of us are!

florilegia.bsky.social•5 days ago

Exactly! The bigots do not speak for us

gabliotecaria.bsky.social•5 days ago

Radio 4 this morning: "women's rights campaigners." 😑🤬

johnlees.bsky.social•6 days ago

A crowd of thousands of people who care about trans rights = “activists.” A tiny group of extremists funded by billionaires and the far right to spend their time agitating for the law to be changed to punish trans people and teeing up PR stunts with their media contacts = “women.”

paul2626.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm sure I saw a headline under a clip of Sky News coverage calling the GC's "feminists", and crying about how they'd been receiving death threats.

louiestowell.bsky.social•6 days ago

oh and don't forget the poor vulnerable statues who got some paint on.

abistevensart.bsky.social•5 days ago

Wasn't it chalk? It'll wash off at the first hint of rain.

louiestowell.bsky.social•5 days ago

Oh ffs they're so pathetic

abistevensart.bsky.social•5 days ago

100% pathetic lol

brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social•6 days ago

Nor is it using the language of solidarity - people who might just come out of solidarity, i.e., they have a trans relative or friend. It's othering.

louiestowell.bsky.social•6 days ago

In the end this is capitalism hand in hand with patriarchy - JK rowling, a billionaire, smoking a cigar - they don't want solidarity to happen.

brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social•6 days ago

The unholy alliance which is now in so much: billionaires, the alt.right, the religious right, libertarians, anti netzero. Obscurantists, neo-feudalists, now pushing the idea of pro-natalism - that people must have more babies (so they can have more cheap bodies and spare wombs).

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