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Imagine feeling like your country's newsmedia could at any time turn its back and begin this level of hate campaign against you, to the point that they harass you and everyone you love to the literal ends of the earth, mining you for content until your death and even after. How would you live life?

I present this exercise for the cis people who've recently told me they're surprised by how bad things are. This is the torture we all live under, a torture we risk simply by using the bathrooms we feel most safe in, and doing the jobs we've always done. Many of us are planning to leave the country.

Please, I beg of you. Understand this environment trans people are living in when you interact with us online. You need to have way more than just basic empathy right now.

As I recall, she just had the bad luck to have a coworker who hates trans people and decided to raise a stink about it.

I said in this interview that life as a trans person in 2026 Britain is "terrifying", but I honestly don't really feel "terrified" so much as I feel "terrorised". And the industry I work in carries much of the blame.

I am so sorry for what you have been going through. I can't believe some of the things I see printed in UK papers. It will take the most sensationalist, unproven thing said by someone, put that as the title (as if it is proven and fact) then in the article be like "according to..."

if they get called out, they're like "we never actually said it, we were just quoting." 1. Why are they headlining news articles with quotes like that? 2. why aren't they making clear it's a quote? People will read the title and repeat it as fact, and they know it. They're just hateful and slimy

Do you think there's any truth to The Guilty Feminist's suggestion (in the book Six Conversations) that a foundation circa 2014 decided that fighting gay rights in the UK was a lost cause so the way to divide the left, and feminists more broadly, was to start a campaign against the trans community?

Honestly couldn't say; on one hand American evangelical dark money is literally everywhere always but otoh what I've observed over the years is much closer to elite capture via Twitter-borne brainworms. Perhaps it's ultimately a bit of column A, a bit of column B.