HOW TO WRITE A TRANSPHOBIC ARTICLE FOR MAINSTREAM BRITISH MEDIA JOURNALISTS CHECKLIST NO.1
A post for the all the transphobic bloggers I know, and the ones who don’t dare criticise them.
There is nothing like a Dame…to lecture the rest of us on privilege.
1. Create the illusion that everyone loves trans people now; there is no discrimination or prejudice anymore and that life for them is just a bowl of cherries. Check.
2. Create the myth that there is a powerful and sinister trans lobby operating behind the scenes that conspires to manipulate and control to the extent that they already have too much power now and are taking over. As evidenced by them getting ‘uppity’ recently and having the temerity to ask if they’re going to get equal rights at some point in the future. Check.Double-Check.
3. Turn the wealthy and powerful journalistic establishment who have traditionally persecuted and marginalised them into the actual victim instead. Check.Double-Check.
4. Re-iterate the usual pseudo-scientific misinformation about the ‘unfair advantages’ trans people have in sport backed up by no-one in…
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