With crushing predictability, the faux-feminists in the UK press have decided that the real villain in the decades-long plot to overturn Roe vs Wade en route to establishing a Christian theocracy is… trans women. The argument, if you can call it that, is simple: trans men wanted to be included in discussions of reproductive healthcare;… Continue reading Leopards
Category: Hell in a handcart
We’re all doomed
A load of ballots
I went to vote in the Scottish local government elections last week. On my ballot paper there were three candidates who wanted you to vote so they could harm people like me: one party who vowed that if elected, they’d ban people like me from council facilities such as swimming pools; one party who want… Continue reading A load of ballots
“I’m done feeling humiliated.”
This is a powerful and heartfelt piece by Jessica Valenti on the imminent reversal of Roe vs Wade. I refuse to explain, over and over again, that women are people. I’m done degrading myself by sharing the most intimate details of my life with strangers in the hope that perhaps one will muster a spark… Continue reading “I’m done feeling humiliated.”
Turning back the clock
LGBT Youth Scotland has published its latest survey of LGBT+ young people, Life In Scotland For LGBT+ Young People in 2022. And while some things have got better – people coming out to their families and friends are more likely to receive a positive response than ever before – some of the most important things… Continue reading Turning back the clock
Not Safe To Be Me
Did you hear about Safe To Be Me? If you’re not on LGBT+ social media, probably not. It was the Conservative government’s sole manifesto commitment to the LGBT+ community, the establishment of an international conference to promote LGBT+ rights. The problem with that is that right now, one of the worst offenders against LGBT+ rights… Continue reading Not Safe To Be Me
April fools
I’m not a big fan of April Fool’s day. As a journalist it’s a day when my inbox is filled with unfunny nonsense, and as a reader of newspapers and websites it’s a day when the papers try to get away with ridiculous bullshit such as claiming Graham Linehan deserves sympathy for his obsessive anti-trans… Continue reading April fools
Everything is awful
Trans Actual has published the results of its 2021 Trans Lives survey, in which around 700 UK trans adults shared their experiences. The results aren’t surprising but they are saddening. 27% of trans people have been homelessness at some point in their lives. That rises to 36% for both trans BPOC and trans disabled people;… Continue reading Everything is awful
It’s time to abolish gender clinics
The image above is a graph showing the Tavistock London Adult Gender Identity Clinic’s performance since 2017. In the last four years its finding has increased from just under £4m to just under £6m while the number of people being referred to the service has fallen. And yet the number of people being seen by… Continue reading It’s time to abolish gender clinics
Two brilliant books
Here are two books you should buy. The Transgender Issue, by Shon Faye This is a book I’d very much like to have written, because it’s a clear-eyed, well researched and well argued response to the evidence-free scaremongering and barely laundered antisemitism of cisgender authors who claim to know more about trans people than trans… Continue reading Two brilliant books
“Violent enforcers” of a manufactured culture war
This Daily Kos piece on the Proud Boys, the neo-nazi thugs who’ve allied themselves with anti-trans groups, is terrifying: When Proud Boys show up at local school protests, they’re following a larger far-right blueprint. The Pacific Northwest’s gang of Proud Boys was very active over the past weekend. In addition to ginning up violence at an… Continue reading “Violent enforcers” of a manufactured culture war