I’m sick and tired of being told that trans people are a threat to women, girls and feminism. And I’m sick and tired of not being able to call this out for what it is: transphobia. And after yet another newspaper article about how the struggle for transgender rights is “silencing women” – published, unironically, by…
Nor was it just biased reporting. Some columnists – the Daily Mail’s Richard Littlejohn led the way – simply used their columns, read by millions of people to attack a woman who wanted only to live her life in peace.
Littlejohn wrote a piece headlined: “He’s not only in the wrong body … he’s in the wrong job”, seemingly oblivious to the grief caused by misgendering Lucy. His focus was “the devastating effect” on pupils of Lucy’s change in gender.
“Why,” he asked, “should they be forced to deal with the news that a male teacher they have always known as Mr Upton will henceforth be a woman called Miss Meadows?”
Lucy was all about protecting those closest to her: friends, family, myself. So she worked hard to give the impression that this was annoying but she was dealing with it.
Still, when she came to spend that Christmas with us, I could tell that she was quite low. A friend, someone she had been falling in love with, had recently died. The hormones were continuing to have an effect. And it seemed the press were not going away any time soon.
We got through January, but it was hard to shake the sense that the press damage had gone deep. On 7 February, Lucy made her first suicide attempt. Or rather, she explained, she made her practice run. Because this was the only rational solution.
A reverend in Ohio revealed a thief has stolen part of his church display honouring the trans people who were killed in 2019. St Peter’s United Church of Christ in Cincinnati, Ohio, describes itself as a “100 per cent hate free zone”. According to its website, the church welcomes everyone into its community “no matter…
There was once a transphobe named Graham His hatred for women caused mayhem He can’t realise, the fool That to hurt one hurts all So there’s only one option: condemn him.
I am an AFAB transmasc non-binary person. And you probably don’t understand what that means.
A year ago I had waist-long hair. I never cut it- I used to have a habit of trimming it every other solstice but kept forgetting to for years. It felt wrong. I was thinking about cutting it for ages. But I couldn’t- I had grown it forever because it felt like the natural thing to do. But by the time I finally cut it, my heart had been broken twice- once by a woman and once by circumstance. There’s a Japanese tradition I had seen in manga where you cut your hair after a heartbreak to start anew. I finally cut it to my shoulders- an AMAB nonbinary person I knew had hair like that so I thought it would better suit my lack of gender.
Ricky Gervais has posted a series of seemingly transphobic tweets prompted by J.K. Rowling’s support of Maya Forstater, a researcher who was fired for tweeting that a person cannot change their biological sex. In later tweets, Gervais implied the tweets were meant as jokes. In the first tweet, Gervais, who has been tapped to host…
For all that’s gone on in the past year, I barely believed I could one day wake up in a world where JK Rowling and Ricky Gervais were on the same side.
Today, J.K. Rowling drew back the curtain on Twitter and essentially declared herself to be a transphobe, which is depressing and awful. I just remembered, she has kids. Even worse.
Here are the people who are defending her right now:
You would hope that getting support from such people would cause anyone to take a long hard look at themselves, but I doubt it. I admired Rowling so much as a kid – we kinda have similar backstories – but not any more. Not for a long time, really. God, it’s hard to processs when the adults in your life let you down this drastically, but hey – another one.
Not that it will make a difference or anything, but I will not be paying to see Fantastic Beasts 3.
British comedy show The Last Leg has been presenting a mock prize to the ‘Dick of the Year’ since 2014 – and this year’s hot contender is none other than the darling of “gender-critical feminism”, Graham Linehan himself. The Irish comedy writer, who rose to public consciousness in the 90s for being a co-writer on Father…
Fuck me, The Guardian’s become even more depressingly casually transphobic recently
I suppose that linking to the article in question will only increase its hit count, so I’ll just link to a twitter thread about it. God, why are British newspapers so bigoted and shit?
