Yeah, trans people in the UK are in horrible danger.
In regards to Hillary Cass I am not even sure how much of this is actual regret and how much is her trying to save her reputation in regards to her scientific credentials. It may be politically opportune to write a report full of bigoted pseudo-science that slanders the academic community who does actual science, but it comes at a price.
We of the lgbt community and our allies know the reports flawed as fuck at best but those who don't have an interest in trans people outside of attacking them don't know enough or care enough to know the reports shite. I was reading comments on the live politics blog of the guardian UK and there was someone attacking the green party of the UK because they've been supportive of trans people in their policies and manifesto, of course the replies were mostly in agreement and the evidence they used to support the attacks on the green party for being pro trans was the fucking case report. The guardians demographic is typically centre left middle class so likely university educated and they still don't fucking get it. It served as a good reminder why I stopped reading it earlier this year. Unfortunately here in the UK there isn't a leftwing paper that's pro trans. Every news outlet is ambivalent at best and outright attacking at worst. There's also a General Election this year and local ones within a month so it's hugely important to me that anti LGBT people aren't elected and that won't be the case it seems. I fucking hate the UK and I'm lucky enough to live in Northern Ireland which hopefully will reunite with the south at some point in my lifetime.
Unfortunately here in the UK there isn’t a leftwing paper that’s pro trans
I'll check it out. I would really like to read a proper leftwing news outlet, doesn't even have to be a paper in origin as I lean socialist and I am queer. Obviously the UK right wing papers are notoriously bad for sensationalism, the BBC has got worse since the Tory's have taken control of it and it follows the government line plus it's shit when it comes to trans issues and things like migration. The guardian isn't so bad in everything but trans issues and then you've got columnists who are of the LGBT community like Arwha Mad something and she's written negative articles about trans people and the readers of the guardian are also anti trans generally. The Times is linked to Murdoch so I won't read it and the financial times I don't mind but I've only read a handful of articles on it ever so I don't know their stance on issues/causes that are important to me.
I don't mind reading people with differing opinions but I take umbrage with the outlet itself going out of its way to portray things in an over the top negative way and I have an issue with sensitive topics not being written about in a respectful way.
Yeah, trans people in the UK are in horrible danger.
In regards to Hillary Cass I am not even sure how much of this is actual regret and how much is her trying to save her reputation in regards to her scientific credentials. It may be politically opportune to write a report full of bigoted pseudo-science that slanders the academic community who does actual science, but it comes at a price.
We of the lgbt community and our allies know the reports flawed as fuck at best but those who don't have an interest in trans people outside of attacking them don't know enough or care enough to know the reports shite. I was reading comments on the live politics blog of the guardian UK and there was someone attacking the green party of the UK because they've been supportive of trans people in their policies and manifesto, of course the replies were mostly in agreement and the evidence they used to support the attacks on the green party for being pro trans was the fucking case report. The guardians demographic is typically centre left middle class so likely university educated and they still don't fucking get it. It served as a good reminder why I stopped reading it earlier this year. Unfortunately here in the UK there isn't a leftwing paper that's pro trans. Every news outlet is ambivalent at best and outright attacking at worst. There's also a General Election this year and local ones within a month so it's hugely important to me that anti LGBT people aren't elected and that won't be the case it seems. I fucking hate the UK and I'm lucky enough to live in Northern Ireland which hopefully will reunite with the south at some point in my lifetime.
There's Novara Media but it's not really one of the big boys compared to the others. They did a decent video of Judith Butler being interviewed by the lady from that "I'm literally a communist you idiot!" Piers Morgan clip about three weeks ago titled "Anti-trans ideology threatens all of our freedoms"
I'll check it out. I would really like to read a proper leftwing news outlet, doesn't even have to be a paper in origin as I lean socialist and I am queer. Obviously the UK right wing papers are notoriously bad for sensationalism, the BBC has got worse since the Tory's have taken control of it and it follows the government line plus it's shit when it comes to trans issues and things like migration. The guardian isn't so bad in everything but trans issues and then you've got columnists who are of the LGBT community like Arwha Mad something and she's written negative articles about trans people and the readers of the guardian are also anti trans generally. The Times is linked to Murdoch so I won't read it and the financial times I don't mind but I've only read a handful of articles on it ever so I don't know their stance on issues/causes that are important to me.
I don't mind reading people with differing opinions but I take umbrage with the outlet itself going out of its way to portray things in an over the top negative way and I have an issue with sensitive topics not being written about in a respectful way.