Killer conspiracies

The BBC reports that members of an “anti-establishment cult” have been jailed for trying to kidnap a coroner. What the BBC hasn’t clearly reported (and neither has The Guardian or The Telegraph, the latter of which devoted three pages to the case) is why they were doing it. They intended to enact a “death sentence” on the coroner for supposed crimes related to “gender reassignment” in children and railed against “the transgender movement” in their radicalisation videos.

Here’s Trans Safety Network’s Mallory Moore:

Here’s the fake death warrant the group issued regarding the Essex coroner, directly claiming linking the coroner to supposed child mutilation relating to gender reassignment, authorising a “death sentence” for the targetted victim.

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— Mal-eficent (Sin #60) (@mall.bsky.social) October 29, 2024 at 9:23 AM

As Mallory says, “so much of this rhetoric is impossible to differentiate from common [“gender critical”] rhetoric about trans people.” Which is perhaps why the BBC and The Guardian, both of which generally act as uncritical mouthpieces for anti-trans activists, have been so reticent about drawing attention to it.

Sometimes the anti-LGBTQ+ links are too hard to ignore, however. Last month, a Scots neo-nazi was found guilty of planning a series of terrorist crimes – specifically including an attack on a Falkirk LGBTQ+ group. “They have been pushing their luck for years, now they will pay in blood,” he wrote. “We should get masked up and go do a few of them at their little gay club.” When the police arrested him, they found weapons including a crossbow with telescopic sights, fourteen knives, machetes, a tomahawk, a Samurai sword, knuckledusters, an extendable baton and a stun gun.

We like to pretend that we’re not like America. But in an age of global media, bigotry and conspiracism are global too. I’ve long written about the parallels between UK anti-trans activism, neo-Nazism and QAnon; rhetoric that’s laundered in the broadsheets becomes murderous in the streets.


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