a dreadful event

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As the close relative of a trans person today has been a bad day for me. I have seen multiple Twitter accounts screaming about how trans people are groomers who mutilate kids. Many of the loudest of these have Israeli flags in their usernames. (Israel has killed 13,800 children in Gaza, so far.)

The sheer volume and sheer level of trans hate is terrifying and it’s relentless. I see it trending every day and there’s nothing I can do to make the world any safer. Apparently a gym in America has been sent bomb threats after going trans-inclusive and individual trans activists on Twitter have been sent death threats. JK Rowling recently listed all the trans women she didn’t like in a list with sex offenders and called them all men. She’s a billionaire so no-one can stop her.

I tried reading Sherlock Holmes “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client” to make myself feel better (it’s the one where an abuser of women is punished) but I had to stop right at the beginning.

To revenge crime is important, but to prevent it is more so. It is a terrible thing, Mr. Holmes, to see a dreadful event, an atrocious situation, preparing itself before your eyes, to clearly understand whither it will lead, and yet to be utterly unable to avert it. Can a human being be placed in a more trying position?