20 years ago nobody was particularly bothered but now trans have become political pawns in the right wing power struggle. One has to identify a trigger and then use that to motivate the ignorant masses. Classic divide and conquer tactics
but brittain was always homophobic and also racist, it got better for a while but then it got more prominent again in the past years, I still remember when ppl were shitty to george michael when it came out that he is gay
Mega rich people own 80%+ of right wing MSM. Billionaires/oligarchs are
majority owners of social media platforms and some "puppet" politicians. Client journalists obey instructions, spread disinformation and hate, so news is now whatever they say it is and critical thinking, truth is denied.
I was raped at six years old by two teenage girls and a few years later I watched a gay boy get his front teeth kicked out in the play gound. Yes it was.
Will anyone at The Times reflect on what this sentence means? On what it is like to be trans in the world it has quite deliberately created for trans people? Beaten up for being trans - and stabbed for denying it?
Sorry, really don't want to condescend, but there are some decent people at each of those newspapers - the staff are not a monolith - but as institutions they are sick. I often think about where they would have been in 1930s German - although with the Mail we don't need to guess.
Note how, when a trans woman is stabbed or murdered in the sort of transphobic attack its coverage seems so often to want, The Times briefly desists from language like this, use by (who else) its columnist Janice Turner.
And, rather than aligning with the victims of this hatred - trans people who are attacked or murdered or who take their own lives which feel impossible to live - this 'Labour' Government stands with their oppressors. Because they are wealthier and more powerful and Labour believes in nothing.
Starmer was genuinely furious at Sunak making a transphobic joke when they thought Brianna Ghey's mother was present. That was proper emotion there, which is something he doesn't often show. Don't know what's going on with him, but it's not Streeting-level hatred. He needs to meet trans folk.
Starmer is a morally bankrupt opportunist with no values, and will say anything to net the approval of terrible people. I don’t really believe in his heart of hearts that he is an anti-trans ideologue like Streeting is. Starmer is just jumping on the anti-trans bandwagon because it’s popular
Doubt if Starmer is his own man. Streeting was probably chosen because he would do eagerly what few would have the stomach for, both to the NHS and to trans children. Does he realise how biodegradable he probably is?
We have yet to discover why SO much effort has been expended on this project. 😵
Everything points to it and there’s not ben a single person I’ve spoken to about it that can point to anything that would contradict it… so.. Yeah. You’re spot on as far as I can see.
Streeting is either grotesquely naïve or has transphobes on speed dial and are 'buying' Streeting to do their dirty work. Streeting is no friend to the LGBT+ community despite him being a gay man.
Does it make a difference? Whatever the motivation is for their discrimination, it's still discrimination. They're bigots whether they're discriminating for political expediency or not.
The abhorrent use of the slur 'trans identified' immediately tells you that the writer is trabsphobic. It's also a pathetic and absurd term, nobody 'identifies' as trans, it's not a 'choice' else all trans people would just 'identify' out of being trans! It's not a choice to be trans...
when gender dysphoria is casing such significant depression and anxiety and a trans person sadly sees no future of way forward so attempts suicide. Gender affirning care is life saving care, not a choice!
Using 'trans identified' would equally mean gay people are 'gay identified' that they 'choose' to be gay, which of course just as with trans people we know to be untrue, nobody 'identifies' into being gay or trans, even transiton isn't really a choice, most have reached a point of transition or die
... It's why we offer to them what many consider to be a drastic treatment of gender reassignment, unless you view it from the real context of gender dysphoria potentially being life threatening then it's easy to misunderstand gender affirning care.
... want the devastating effects of gender dysphoria to stop, and the effects are so life limiting that around 40% of trans people have at some point attempted or considered suicide, in trans youth that figure is even higher - 50%...
... Even transition isn't really a choice, for most transiton is a last resort when all other means to deal with gender dysphoria have not worked but it's also hugely successful at easing gender dysphoria with regret cases being less than 1%. Trans people don't want to transition they just...
Yep but overwhelmingly violence is a man thing.
We should have more women in positions of power.
Somehow I feel we'd have less wars and more cooperation.
Calling trans women “trans-identified males” is just an excuse to not call them women, while still being able to use the excuse that you were “only referring to biological sex”. They know what they’re doing
We should remember that Janice Turner has won awards for her hate pieces on trans people.
And we should also remember that she once called for ‘humane solutions’ to the ‘trans question’.
The Media is the first impression many have of people with different lives than us. If the Media insists on vilifying things for attention, the first impression many will have of others will be negative. This is why it is important for journalism to be as impartial as possible, as hate breeds hate.
Did they? It's not like they question the deeper societal dynamics in it. They report surprisingly "neutrally" on this result of their stochastic terrorism. Like they want to say "it's just normal that those goddamned t***n f*gs get shanked a dozen+ times for daring to be equal to us normal people!"
"That night, a message was sent to Betts-Ramsey which said: “stabbing a girl cus she’s trans... it’s disgusting”, to which Betts-Ramsey replied: “IT deserved it”."
Guarantee the attackers' moms are all ardent JK Rowling adorers
Thanks for highlighintng this @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social - can you use Alt text on images please? Users who rely on screen readers won't get the context of the pictures otherwise
(I always forget, but BlueSky has feature in settings to switch on a reminder 😊)
Not sure if it's just me but I often find that when reporting on hate crimes they will find a way to portray those who carried out the crime/attack as a victim.
No, the victim is the person(s) attacked for being who they are.
I'm sure old JKR will find some way to defend this vile attack.
I doubt these youths who seemed to be at least LARPing as gangsters will be reading the quality press, but this highlights the importance of diversity education at school, which The Times campaigns against. https://archive.is/9aeVs
There's a good reason a lot of us don't go dating because this is how people are with "gay panic defense" which is a defense people use.... and it's telling how many people think it's justified
Yep! Anyone who has propagated the recent increase hatred toward can take ownership of precisely what we warned would happen! You've made transohobia socially acceptable and it's inevitable someone would do this kind of attack!!
"Why does this keep happening?" asks The Times, which gave a glowing review to Emilia Pérez, a horrendously transphobic movie that portrays its trans female lead as a manipulative psychopath whose entire plot arc is that she's lying.
In U.K. law murder is a very specific offence with fairly strict criteria to meet the prosecution threshold. Often CPS will look carefully at balancing the risk of prosecuting for murder which has a far higher threshold in court v manslaughter which can be an easier prosecution.
CPS would rather they get successfully prosecuted rather than risk a murder charge failing in court knowing that a manslaughter charge would more likely have resulted in a conviction. Sadly under U.K. law CPS has to pick one to charge, they can't do either/or.
The media and both major UK political parties all have blood on their hands. The daily anti-trans hatred is what caused this attack and the murder of Brianna.
It has to stop, but it isn't. Not when Keir and Wes Streeting are fanning the flames to this day.
All major newspapers (except the Independent), the Times prominent of course, has framed the story by victim blaming, i.e. the “lie” she told about her sex (because to reveal her assigned sex could have got her killed - as it nearly did).
Each has primed the reader to think that she had it coming.
Her blood is on the hands of the like of Keir Starmer, JK Rowling, Badenoff and all these other bigotted pieces of shit that keep making shit up about and blaming everything on minorities so they and their cronies can feel superior and endangered at the same time.
Sorry I should have been fuller in my thoughts.. that's their perspective I meant not mine. At all.
I think even if the victim, the perp or anyone else was even making porn that's no slight on their character (you don't know me but..) - but this is The Times.
this is why we call out these horrible famous bigots like Rowling & these 'opinion' hitmen for the NYT, & the "just asking questions" bro's... that use their platforms to get real people murdered with their hate speech.
& it's only going to get worse. We will see a record # of deaths this year.
Well said Jolyon. The Mail's piece on this is also a locus classicus of spite, cant, hypocrisy, and manipulation, with particular prominence accorded to the victim's 'lie'... #trans #transgender #transphobia
Between reading this today and my transphobic husband telling me last night that people like me think we’re transgender because of our ADHD meds I’ve been crying on and off all day.
I didn't say this to tell you who to be. I said this to insist that you matter. You know what's best for you, and I just want to encourage you to seek it.
I think JK Rowling carries some indirect culpability for these attacks. She has an enormous platform and uses it to spread transphobic messages and amplify transphobes.
Unfortunately she is very clever about how she stirs the pot but is rarely directly transphobic herself just letting her pathetic minions do her dirty work! Ergo giving her plausible deniability to her transohobia.
I think the JKR personality will provide psychology with work over the years. She's had philanthropic connections with child supporting charities with a Baroness (who incidentally distances themselves from that Baroness today)since 2005, but that may have changed. Evangelism is imo perhaps in there.
Remember how she threatened Labour during the GE that they had to drop their pro-trans points or she would drop hers for the party and that she'd make them meet with GC-groups...How suddenly they stopped the little smidge of trans support they professed to have? And then they aided the US dems camp.
Disinformation peddler, and helps put a PR cloak around the transphobic wing of the media.
I'd also call her a terrorist as she regularly makes direct or indirect threats, or even engages in direct sabotage of trans supportive orgs and people, and lashed the cash out for a hate preacher.
agreed, she's one of the most visible people saying "they're not real women" which is the core belief of the perpetrators of this attack. Not that they look like they read books....
i immediately wondered if she’s okay, so i read what happened and i’m glad she survived. i think a lot of trans people are desensitized to seeing these attacks/murders, but i’m just glad she’s alive.
i wish people would leave us alone, we don’t deserve this
She's alive. But hugely traumatized. I can't imagine how hard it is to live in a world where you are beaten up for being trans and knifed for denying it. Please look after yourself.
Sadly most of us can but thankfully I’ve only been beaten up and not stabbed. That poor girl and the having to hear about what the papers are saying it’s terrible
I agree it’s awful that we’re at the stage where we count our lucky stars for only being raped//beaten up.. sadly here we are and both have happened to me. I just hope in time things will get that little bit easier
I was beaten so many times I long since lost count for being "weird" before I or they knew why I was different or what it meant exactly. Sadly par for the course I think, at least for those of my generation. I'm just glad I haven't been attacked with any weapon more serious than a thick branch.
Please keep carrying on being careful unicorns I know the papers paint is as predators but the sad reality is we’re all to often the ‘prey’, oddly like our cis counterparts xx
Imagine a world where you are suspicious of anyone who finds you attractive because the closet cases have defended their straightness to their friends after looking appreciatively at you by inflicting violence upon you. What cis people see as an invitation I have learnt to see as a threat.
yeah, a lot of trans women recommend you disclose your transness for your safety; even if it sucks having to admit that. obviously he wanted her but he was also obviously a fucking piece of shit. i will, thank you for caring about my community 🩷
God I really hope not. She was provably unsafe to disclose her trans status to this man and she’s been through so much. But yeah, this is exactly what’s in their new guidance and this is an example of why that’s so sickening
Unfortunately this prosecution guidance only criminalises people with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment. Nobody else had to disclose anything about themselves. It's unequivocally discriminatory towards trans people.
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Also, said trans woman wasn't legally allowed to change the marker on her birth certificate (which is frankly insane to me for 2004)
majority owners of social media platforms and some "puppet" politicians. Client journalists obey instructions, spread disinformation and hate, so news is now whatever they say it is and critical thinking, truth is denied.
And centuries of consecutive conservative government will keep it that way long into the future
Gee wonder where the rhetoric comes from…..
So no. There are no decent people there.
I believe Starmer and Streeting are both ideological transphobes, and we have to wake up to that fact.
Thugs
Bully-boys
That’s the truth, I’m afraid
We have yet to discover why SO much effort has been expended on this project. 😵
Starmer just seems like his deeply misguided and conservative.
Confident to act exactly how they please.
We should have more women in positions of power.
Somehow I feel we'd have less wars and more cooperation.
And we should also remember that she once called for ‘humane solutions’ to the ‘trans question’.
Of course they won’t.
Normal business targeting trans people will be resumed as soon as possible.
Guarantee the attackers' moms are all ardent JK Rowling adorers
Fucking despicable.
That's why they get so angry when we call them what they are.
(I always forget, but BlueSky has feature in settings to switch on a reminder 😊)
No, the victim is the person(s) attacked for being who they are.
I'm sure old JKR will find some way to defend this vile attack.
https://archive.is/9aeVs
"The duck face hoebag selfie, clearly"
My bad. Sorry for this error. My point still stands however.
It has to stop, but it isn't. Not when Keir and Wes Streeting are fanning the flames to this day.
Each has primed the reader to think that she had it coming.
Day in day out a hammering against is she is he???
Atrocious and disrespectful....
Fucking fascist country at this point. Even when it's not run by the tories.
The USA at least took a break between 2020 and 2024 with the overt racism, transphobia, mysogynism etc.
England just kept at it.
https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/
I think even if the victim, the perp or anyone else was even making porn that's no slight on their character (you don't know me but..) - but this is The Times.
It's absolutely shocking
& it's only going to get worse. We will see a record # of deaths this year.
OK but I'm still pissed at the jaunty mirror selfie they chose.
Better to sexualise it with a racy photo because we know the editors care more about having a wank than protecting women whether born cis or trans.
Your husband is a misinformed loser. Probs used all his good judgement on picking you and then promptly lost all good sense.
Sending you love, sister. ♥️
Is this an ongoing problem or was he having a lapse?
Be safe, make sure you have a plan, if you have community use it.
Sounds like you're going to be having some stressful conversations. 💜 Take care and Insist on your dignity.
Nope.
It's EXTREMELY DIRECT responsibility.
She's a massively transphobic misinformation peddler.
I'd also call her a terrorist as she regularly makes direct or indirect threats, or even engages in direct sabotage of trans supportive orgs and people, and lashed the cash out for a hate preacher.
Definitely 📌 this one.
i wish people would leave us alone, we don’t deserve this
I am very careful where I go - by car and as close to where I need to be. I can't do public transport any more.
#HopeNotHate 🙏
I'm expecting CPS to charge her with "deception by sex" and condemn her to a sex offender's unit in a men's prison.
That's where we are in this systemically transphobic country.
https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/rape-and-sexual-offences-chapter-6-consent
Someone's clearly had a word with them about the dubious legality of the guidance they published in November.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-transgender-prisoner-policy-comes-into-force