This is what trans people in the UK were faced with yesterday in the Guardian alone. at the bottom, you'll notice "About 3,164 results for Transgender" - ThreadSky

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shelleybwoke.bsky.social • 11 days ago

This is what trans people in the UK were faced with yesterday in the Guardian alone.

at the bottom, you'll notice "About 3,164 results for Transgender"

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shelleybwoke.bsky.social•11 days ago

If you scan the results, there are more 'trans-positive' coverage scattered throughout, but what you wouldn't know if you weren't paying attention is those were produced by the US Guardian, who seem decidedly less transphobic than their coworkers on TERF island.

shelleybwoke.bsky.social•11 days ago

And, unlike the UK version, the US version does not have a print product.

mrpostsgood.bsky.social•11 days ago

US Guardian journalists complained in 2018 and were promptly ignored in favour of an even more explicitly transphobic editorial angle https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/02/guardian-editorial-response-transgender-rights-uk

shelleybwoke.bsky.social•11 days ago

I had not seen this! thanks - one for the memory banks

shelleybwoke.bsky.social•11 days ago

It's all there to behold, the media model

The Modern Media Model (rev.)

Stoke hatred and moral panic by platforming bigots.

Cover consequences of platforming bigots.

Produce chin-stroking content "concerned" over the moral panic.

Publish voices from the suffering for "balance"

Profit.

naffdoodaa.bsky.social•11 days ago

I know at this point I should not expect any better, but the ruling was only about GRCs.
Any situation that does not involve a GRC (i.e. less than birth certificates) *shouldn't* be affected.
The NHS does not check GRCs, the police does not check GRCs.
And yet here we are.

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