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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...school-attack-caught-camera-says-bullied.html

A transgender girl accused of assaulting two students at a Texas high school alleges that she was being bullied and was merely fighting back

Shocking video shows a student identified by police as Travez Perry violently punching, kicking and stomping on a girl in the hallway of Tomball High School.

The female student was transported to the hospital along with a male student, whom Perry allegedly kicked in the face and knocked unconscious.

According to the police report, Perry - who goes by 'Millie' - told officers that the victim has been bullying her and had posted a photo of her on social media with a negative comment.

One Tomball High School parent whose daughter knows Perry said that the 18-year-old had been the target of a death threat.

'From what my daughter has said that the girl that was the bully had posted a picture of Millie saying people like this should die,' the mother, who asked not to be identified by name, told DailyMail.com.

When Perry appeared in court on assault charges, her attorney told a judge that the teen has been undergoing a difficult transition from male to female and that: 'There's more to this story than meets the eye.'

Perry is currently out on bond, according to authorities.

The video of the altercation sparked a widespread debate on social media as some claim Perry was justified in standing up to her alleged bullies and others condemn her use of violence.

The mother who spoke with DailyMail.com has been one of Millie's most ardent defenders on Facebook.

'I do not condone violence at all. But situations like this show that people now a days, not just kids, think they can post what they want. Or say what they want without thinking of who they are hurting,' she said.

'Nobody knows what Millie has gone through, and this could have just been a final straw for her. That is all speculation of course because I don't personally know her or her family, but as a parent and someone who is part of the LGBTQ community this girl needs help and support, not grown men online talking about her private parts and shaming and mocking her.'

One Facebook commenter summed up the views of many, writing: 'This was brutal, and severe! I was bullied for years and never attacked anyone!'

Multiple commenters rejected the gender transition defense and classified the attack as a male senselessly beating a female.

One woman wrote on Facebook: 'This person will get off because they're transitioning. This is an animal. She kicked, and stomped, and beat...not okay. Bullying is not acceptable, but kicking someone in the head. Punishment doesn't fit the crime.'

FB https://www.facebook.com/travez.perry http://archive.is/mnEmm

 

[Syntaxion]

Lol

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/gallery/black-trans-lives-matter-hull-4363703

22 pictures from Black Trans Lives Matter demonstration in Hull


The pictures:

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Neither blacks nor trannies.

They might as well hold a 'Tongan fishermen's lives matter' protest

This shit is weird as fuck, where do these people come from?
I mean, there are probably more people at that protest than there are black transexuals in the entirety of England.
How are they protesting for a group that had 0 public awareness just 6 months ago?

I feel the same about their protest in NY. It had like 12k people.
12k people. For a group that no one gave a fuck about just 1 year ago.
Is this a psyop? Am I paranoid for thinking this isn't organic?

Imagine if next month, out of the blue, a protest were held for all the lefthanded transexual native americans. Imagine if it had 12k people showing up.
You'd think something were up, because that wouldn't seem organic or natural.

 

[Prolego]

It's like Caster Semenya was socialized as a girl, but then the testosterone in his brain released at puberty made him behave pretty much like a regular guy. If he hadn't gone through male puberty, then despite being XY and having internal testicles , he'd just 'be a woman'

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The real killer Caster Semanya wedding photo is this one:



That is a straight-up heterosexual pose. Guys wouldn't be snapped grabbing their partner's boob. Nor lesbians. The only time this guy lives as a woman is on the racetrack.

Lol

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/gallery/black-trans-lives-matter-hull-4363703

22 pictures from Black Trans Lives Matter demonstration in Hull


The pictures:

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View attachment 1474280
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Neither blacks nor trannies.

They might as well hold a 'Tongan fishermen's lives matter' protest

O/T, but was the photographer a midget? Or was he using one of those cameras that you hide in your shoe? There are an awful lot of borderline pervy shots on that page. When and where are the rest of his photos likely to appear? Hull Magistrates' Court?

 

[CatParty]

https://thenorwichradical.com/2020/07/25/glinners-gone-what-next-in-the-fight-against-transphobia/amp/

GLINNER’S GONE – WHAT NEXT IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TRANSPHOBIA?

By Lewis Martin
Content warning: discussion of transphobia, genitalia

In June, the news broke that Graham Linehan, former comedy writer turned full time transphobe, was finally removed from twitterfor his continued attacks on the trans* community. Whilst it is positive that twitter is finally taking the action that the trans* community have long been asking for, this should have happened years ago, when Linehan started doxing people who dared challenge him.

However, removing one bigot from a social media platform doesn’t mean that his horrible ideas and behaviour will disappear. Linehan’s crusade to declare who is and isn’t a woman is supported by many others, ranging from prominent academics such as Kathleen Stock to celebrities such as JK Rowling. The support of these influential individuals has helped to perpetuate a pervasive ideology of intolerance, which seeks to make the life of the trans community as difficult as possible by attacking their very right to exist. Removing a major transphobe from an important platform is a start, but there’s more work to be done.

Although its proponents claim to be feminists, this is an actively misogynist belief system

The ideology of Linehan and his ilk is underpinned by a form of biological essentialism. In short, it boils down to the view that sex governs gender and that the two are immutably linked to one another through a series of characteristics that define what is a ‘Man’ and what is a ‘Woman’. These ‘characteristics’ are usually to do with the genitalia of a person – specifically, whether or not they have a penis. Although its proponents claim to be feminists, this is an actively misogynist belief system. It is anti-feminst in two main ways. Firstly, it is an ideology that ‘still believes in the ontological reality of the Penis as hegemonic genitalia’, as Paul B. Preciado puts it in his Counter-Sexual Manifesto. By focusing so heavily on the phallus, biological essentialists perpetuate the patriarchal notion that the male genitalia is the ideal genitalia in our society. Secondly, as a result of this notion, it frames women as defined and regulated not by the genitalia they have, but by the ones they do not. By insisting that the penis is the defining genitalia not only of what is male, but also of what is female, it makes women definable only by the fact that they are not men. It is a straightforwardly toxic position that treats the continuation of violence against trans* people as an acceptable price to pay to help its defenders feel secure in their inflexible ideas about gender.

This issue should not just be left to the trans* community to deal with. Our cis-gendered allies need to speak up and help us, not only in amplifying our voices, but also in actively fighting against the systems that oppress and erase us. Many allies came forward to protest the government’s abandoning of the Gender Recognition Act consultation, but it’s not enough to only call out transphobia in the wake of individual highly-publicised events. One of the reasons that Linehan was able to get away with what he did for so long was that many turned a blind eye to it, often choosing simply to unfollow him rather than actively call him out. Many people who witnessed his increasingly vile behaviour consoled themselves with their fond memories of the comedy shows that he co-wrote. This tacit acceptance of his discourse gave him license to continue with his tirades against trans* people and their allies because he knew that he wouldn’t being challenged en masse without more continuously vocal support from the cisgendered community.

We need the allies of the trans* community to speak up, and to make space for trans* folk to centre themselves

There is also further work to be done within the trans* community itself to help guide these conversations and make changes. Whilst we need the support of our cisgender siblings, they should not be leading the fight and talking for us. This leads to our concerns and needs being drowned out by those who do not know what it’s like to be trans, as seen with the case of Mermaids, an organisation led by a majority cisgendered staff group that works with trans children. This has resulted in a disconnect between the trans community’s needs and wants and what the organisation thinks needs to be done, as evidenced by their continued support of the police despite objections from within the community. In order to resolve these issues, the community’s voice needs to not only be listened to, but centred within organisations such as Mermaids in order to ensure that our voices are not lost or glossed over in the fight for our rights.

It’s good news that ‘Glinner’ is gone, but a lot more work needs to be done. In recent weeks, new figures have confirmed that trans* people are twice as likely to be victims of crime than cisgender indivudals, and yet the news has focused on Rowling continuing to sue anyone who dares call her out on her bullshit. What it shows is that the plight of trans people will always be secondary to those who weaponise their issues for as long as transphobia goes unchecked, even when the evidence shows how much more we suffer. We need the allies of the trans* community to speak up, and to make space for trans* folk to centre themselves in the creation of solutions to trans* issues, to ensure that the systemic transphobia in our society is finally booted to the curb once and for all.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Coming out as a degenerate and asking Baptists out of all the Christian denominations to accept his degeneracy? Then making surprised Pikachu face when they tell him to GTFO?

This is hilarious.

She wrote on Twitter: “Hi friends. Yesterday the members of Lorne Park Baptist Church voted to fire me. The vote went 58-53 in favour of termination.”

"She" was almost kept as pastor, though. A three vote swing and it would have been 55-56 in favor of retention. Wonder what old timey Baptists like Roger Williams, etc., would think of their latter day intellectual heirs.

 

[round robin]

https://thenorwichradical.com/2020/07/25/glinners-gone-what-next-in-the-fight-against-transphobia/amp/

GLINNER’S GONE – WHAT NEXT IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TRANSPHOBIA?

By Lewis Martin
Content warning: discussion of transphobia, genitalia

In June, the news broke that Graham Linehan, former comedy writer turned full time transphobe, was finally removed from twitterfor his continued attacks on the trans* community. Whilst it is positive that twitter is finally taking the action that the trans* community have long been asking for, this should have happened years ago, when Linehan started doxing people who dared challenge him.

However, removing one bigot from a social media platform doesn’t mean that his horrible ideas and behaviour will disappear. Linehan’s crusade to declare who is and isn’t a woman is supported by many others, ranging from prominent academics such as Kathleen Stock to celebrities such as JK Rowling. The support of these influential individuals has helped to perpetuate a pervasive ideology of intolerance, which seeks to make the life of the trans community as difficult as possible by attacking their very right to exist. Removing a major transphobe from an important platform is a start, but there’s more work to be done.


The ideology of Linehan and his ilk is underpinned by a form of biological essentialism. In short, it boils down to the view that sex governs gender and that the two are immutably linked to one another through a series of characteristics that define what is a ‘Man’ and what is a ‘Woman’. These ‘characteristics’ are usually to do with the genitalia of a person – specifically, whether or not they have a penis. Although its proponents claim to be feminists, this is an actively misogynist belief system. It is anti-feminst in two main ways. Firstly, it is an ideology that ‘still believes in the ontological reality of the Penis as hegemonic genitalia’, as Paul B. Preciado puts it in his Counter-Sexual Manifesto. By focusing so heavily on the phallus, biological essentialists perpetuate the patriarchal notion that the male genitalia is the ideal genitalia in our society. Secondly, as a result of this notion, it frames women as defined and regulated not by the genitalia they have, but by the ones they do not. By insisting that the penis is the defining genitalia not only of what is male, but also of what is female, it makes women definable only by the fact that they are not men. It is a straightforwardly toxic position that treats the continuation of violence against trans* people as an acceptable price to pay to help its defenders feel secure in their inflexible ideas about gender.

This issue should not just be left to the trans* community to deal with. Our cis-gendered allies need to speak up and help us, not only in amplifying our voices, but also in actively fighting against the systems that oppress and erase us. Many allies came forward to protest the government’s abandoning of the Gender Recognition Act consultation, but it’s not enough to only call out transphobia in the wake of individual highly-publicised events. One of the reasons that Linehan was able to get away with what he did for so long was that many turned a blind eye to it, often choosing simply to unfollow him rather than actively call him out. Many people who witnessed his increasingly vile behaviour consoled themselves with their fond memories of the comedy shows that he co-wrote. This tacit acceptance of his discourse gave him license to continue with his tirades against trans* people and their allies because he knew that he wouldn’t being challenged en masse without more continuously vocal support from the cisgendered community.


There is also further work to be done within the trans* community itself to help guide these conversations and make changes. Whilst we need the support of our cisgender siblings, they should not be leading the fight and talking for us. This leads to our concerns and needs being drowned out by those who do not know what it’s like to be trans, as seen with the case of Mermaids, an organisation led by a majority cisgendered staff group that works with trans children. This has resulted in a disconnect between the trans community’s needs and wants and what the organisation thinks needs to be done, as evidenced by their continued support of the police despite objections from within the community. In order to resolve these issues, the community’s voice needs to not only be listened to, but centred within organisations such as Mermaids in order to ensure that our voices are not lost or glossed over in the fight for our rights.

It’s good news that ‘Glinner’ is gone, but a lot more work needs to be done. In recent weeks, new figures have confirmed that trans* people are twice as likely to be victims of crime than cisgender indivudals, and yet the news has focused on Rowling continuing to sue anyone who dares call her out on her bullshit. What it shows is that the plight of trans people will always be secondary to those who weaponise their issues for as long as transphobia goes unchecked, even when the evidence shows how much more we suffer. We need the allies of the trans* community to speak up, and to make space for trans* folk to centre themselves in the creation of solutions to trans* issues, to ensure that the systemic transphobia in our society is finally booted to the curb once and for all.

trans*

*retarded

 

[Minister Burroughs]

trans*

Yeah, seriously, what does that mean? Why the asterisk?

 

[spiritofamermaid]

Yeah, seriously, what does that mean? Why the asterisk?

It's supposed to signify that it's ~more inclusive~. So it covers transgender, transsexual, transvestite, [transracial, transspecies].

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

The ideology of Linehan and his ilk is underpinned by a form of biological essentialism. In short, it boils down to the view that sex governs gender and that the two are immutably linked to one another through a series of characteristics that define what is a ‘Man’ and what is a ‘Woman’. These ‘characteristics’ are usually to do with the genitalia of a person – specifically, whether or not they have a penis. Although its proponents claim to be feminists, this is an actively misogynist belief system.

Okay, I'll bite. If the above is incorrect, then what "series of characteristics" DO define what is a "Man" and what is a "Woman?" And what characteristics one should expect in one that the other does not have, if you're up to it.

By insisting that the penis is the defining genitalia not only of what is male, but also of what is female, it makes women definable only by the fact that they are not men.

The Gun is Good. The Penis is Evil.

 

[round robin]

Okay, I'll bite. If the above is incorrect, then what "series of characteristics" DO define what is a "Man" and what is a "Woman?" And what characteristics one should expect in one that the other does not have, if you're up to it.

They don't have any definitions, outside of "do you ~feel~ like a man/woman." The only logical conclusion to all of this madness is that they intend to dissolve the concept of gender and sex, until every member of humanity is an ambiguous figure devoid of any defining features. The proponents of diversity are ironically its greatest adversary.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Okay, I'll bite. If the above is incorrect, then what "series of characteristics" DO define what is a "Man" and what is a "Woman?" And what characteristics one should expect in one that the other does not have, if you're up to it.

It's the underwear, not the genitalia, that defines someones gender.

 

[Positron]

Is there an actual reason why gender dismorphia is not a mental disorder other than "because it's bigoted to think it is"? It seems like the literal definition of a mental disorder.

A modern and popular definition of diseases is what is the so-called "hybrid model". A disease is a condition that must have 1) a constitutive basis (i.e. it is known to be caused by, or is strongly believed to be caused by, a biological malfunction) and 2) a normative basis (i.e. a disease has to be something bad, however defined). I think the transgender lobby has eliminated the normative basis: they aver by fiat that transsexualism isn't something bad (even though everyone elses think it is). It makes no sense, but since Medicine has devolved into a service industry whose prestige is dependent on the goodwill of the general public, the Medical institution has chosen to bow down.

‘Man’ and what is a ‘Woman’. These ‘characteristics’ are usually to do with the genitalia of a person – specifically, whether or not they have a penis. Although its proponents claim to be feminists, this is an actively misogynist belief system. It is anti-feminst in two main ways. Firstly, it is an ideology that ‘still believes in the ontological reality of the Penis as hegemonic genitalia’, as Paul B. Preciado puts it in his Counter-Sexual Manifesto. By focusing so heavily on the phallus, biological essentialists perpetuate the patriarchal notion that the male genitalia is the ideal genitalia in our society. Secondly, as a result of this notion, it frames women as defined and regulated not by the genitalia they have, but by the ones they do not.

This shit might have currency during the Structuralist fever of early 20th century, when "intellectuals" explained everything in terms of "binary opposition" and "marked vs. unmarked category". Post-structuralism (and its evil spawn Postmodernism) has made such thinking unfashionable, if not obsolete. Now everything is to be explained in terms of "discourses" which are connected to power. Men can have their discourse centered around the Phallus, but at the same time, women have been granted more than enough academic power to create a discourse around the Vagina, so there is no longer a question of women being "defined and regulated by the genitalia they don't have". And now we even have discourses around the "Girldick".

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

Okay, I'll bite. If the above is incorrect, then what "series of characteristics" DO define what is a "Man" and what is a "Woman?" And what characteristics one should expect in one that the other does not have, if you're up to it.



The Gun is Good. The Penis is Evil.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EwZhKGgmoUI:40

That film needs a reboot.

 

[queue-anon]

This shit is weird as fuck, where do these people come from?
I mean, there are probably more people at that protest than there are black transexuals in the entirety of England.
How are they protesting for a group that had 0 public awareness just 6 months ago?

I feel the same about their protest in NY. It had like 12k people.
12k people. For a group that no one gave a fuck about just 1 year ago.
Is this a psyop? Am I paranoid for thinking this isn't organic?

Imagine if next month, out of the blue, a protest were held for all the lefthanded transexual native americans. Imagine if it had 12k people showing up.
You'd think something were up, because that wouldn't seem organic or natural.

It's totally not organic.

Tranny issues in general are being pushed by elites against the will or acceptance of the people, and BLM is pushing it too, because that movement also isn't organic. The majority of what BLM claims to want is in direct opposition to 90+ percent of the black community. Black Americans tend toward social conservatism. They don't like gays, they really hate trannies, and, if anything, they want more law enforcement, not less. That community, almost singlehandedly, gave the Democratic nomination to Biden. Biden is a mega tranny apologist, but he's also big into law and order (and I would guess that most black voters don't know his position on the T).

There's something nefarious at work here with how these protests/riots are being coopted for other purposes. My guess is that TPTB don't like that Biden is the Democratic nominee and is therefore trying to push its "open society" objectives in other ways.

I'm also lolling at how black voters fucking liked Bloomberg six months ago. What better evidence is there that BLM doesn't speak for them?

 

[AnOminous]

The majority of what BLM claims to want is in direct opposition to 90+ percent of the black community.

And yet the fake news never tells you BLM's real agenda, even though it's openly stated on their website and elsewhere.

 

[GenociderSyo]

Worst Cooks in America this season had a trans person on it who was known for being on MTV True Life since he would pick up guys and they would get a surprise when they pulled his pants down. Though considering the voice he has, they must have been pretty stupid to not have red flag warning that it was a man with boobs.

 

[Neko GF]

The alphabet "community" riled up at the BBC for distancing itself from tranny organisations:
(Link) (Archive)

UK’s biggest LGBT+ groups condemn BBC for ‘breaching impartiality’ after it quietly cut ties with trans charities


The heads of Britain’s biggest LGBT+ groups have united to demand the BBC reinstate trans-support charities onto its Action Line website and explain why they were removed.

All trans-specific charities for England, Scotland and Wales have been removed from the BBC’s Action Line page, which the leading LGBT+ groups slammed as “deeply troubling”.

The ten LGBT+ organisations also accuse the BBC of breaching its “duty of impartiality, as set out in the Royal Charter”.


The BBC quietly dropped three trans-specific charities – Mermaids, GIRES and the Gender Trust – from its Action Line help pages during changes to its “LGBT Issues” and “Gender Identity: Support and Information” pages this month.

This move, which members of the BBC’s internal LGBT+ Pride network were told this week was because of “audience complaints”, has already seen the public-service broadcaster condemned for “bowing down to deliberate and orchestrated hate campaigns” against trans people.

The bosses of leading equalities charities Stonewall, Switchboard LGBT+ Helpline, LGBT+ Consortium, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, The Rainbow Project and the LGBT Foundation have all signed today’s far-reaching letter, which demands the BBC give the affected organisations the opportunity to see and respond to the complaints levelled against them.

“This is a deeply concerning decision, particularly in light of increased misinformation and debate around trans people’s lives, which is being reflected in our national media,” reads the letter, which is also signed by the heads of major transgender charities Gendered Intelligence, Mermaids, GIRES and Sail NI.


“We are seeing continued efforts from a small but motivated group of people to discredit legitimate organisations working in the field of supporting trans people.”

The letter – in which the LGBT+ organisations say they “speak in one voice” in defence of the trans community – was sent this afternoon to the BBC Editorial Policy Department.

The removal of the charities, according to letter, “signals a deliberate removal of authority and approval [of the trans charities] as well as the support they could provide to trans people in need of help”.

The letter adds that trans-support charities “are facing an increasingly toxic and hostile public dialogue around trans lives. They work to support their service users through this toxicity and hostility every day.


“It has been suggested that this dialogue has made the listing of the charities a complex matter. We cannot see the complexity.

“All the charities are dedicated to upholding the rights of this vulnerable population who are currently facing public humiliation and deliberate misinformation more than ever. That population make up a proportion of your readership and viewers.”

None of the charities were alerted by the BBC before being taken down from Action Line or were given the opportunity to respond.

The BBC’s Pride network said on 15 July that it had spent a week trying to discover the “rationale” for removing the trans charities but admitted it still did not know.

“We are troubled that trans people are the only ones whose access to support has been reduced. Even more so that the action has taken place within an opaque process,” the letter says.

“If the organisations are not reinstated, then the opaque decision-making process is simply inadequate and highly damaging to the BBC’s reputation for impartiality and considered decision-making.”

Last month, senior MPs and LGBT+ activists were among 150 people who branded BBC News “institutionally transphobic” and expressed “serious concerns” about its coverage of trans issues in a letter to BBC News director Kamal Ahmed.

Today, the letter from the UK’s biggest LGBT+ groups added that “opposition to transphobia is a fundamental democratic principle”.

“It is, after all, trans people’s democratic right not to be discriminated against,” the letter says. “It is also the BBC’s imperative not to merely arbitrate between complaints and the fundamental rights of those affected are engaged.”

A BBC spokesperson previously said: “We understand this issue is hugely important for some audiences so our Action Line LBGT Issues page links to gender identity information on the NHS website, which also links through to additional relevant resources.”

PinkNews has contacted the BBC for comment.

 

[DumbDude42]

The alphabet "community" riled up at the BBC for distancing itself from tranny organisations:
(Link) (Archive)

the real breach of impartiality happened when they got involved with troon lobby groups in the first place

 

[Otterly]

the real breach of impartiality happened when they got involved with troon lobby groups in the first place

The BBC used to be great. Now it’s beyond parody. Those three organisations it mentions, GIRES, mermaids and gender trust are dodgy as fuck and all three push transing children and policies that will destroy the child safeguarding framework. None of them are what you want an impartial support charity to be. They’re not even the usual charity grift, they’re really unpleasant and seriously dodgy. Pretty sure all have been mentioned in here before.

 

[Cast Iron Pan]

Never heard a woman talk about how many inches their vagina is, such a dude thing. Still, I'd imagine the fact it's rotting and smells horrible and is completely mangled and worthless and painful is more of a problem. But that describes most of these frankenstein atrocities.

It's not about inches, it's about square inches. Volume is king.

https://thenorwichradical.com/2020/07/25/glinners-gone-what-next-in-the-fight-against-transphobia/amp/

GLINNER’S GONE – WHAT NEXT IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TRANSPHOBIA?

By Lewis Martin
Content warning: discussion of transphobia, genitalia

In June, the news broke that Graham Linehan, former comedy writer turned full time transphobe, was finally removed from twitterfor his continued attacks on the trans* community. Whilst it is positive that twitter is finally taking the action that the trans* community have long been asking for, this should have happened years ago, when Linehan started doxing people who dared challenge him.

However, removing one bigot from a social media platform doesn’t mean that his horrible ideas and behaviour will disappear. Linehan’s crusade to declare who is and isn’t a woman is supported by many others, ranging from prominent academics such as Kathleen Stock to celebrities such as JK Rowling. The support of these influential individuals has helped to perpetuate a pervasive ideology of intolerance, which seeks to make the life of the trans community as difficult as possible by attacking their very right to exist. Removing a major transphobe from an important platform is a start, but there’s more work to be done.


The ideology of Linehan and his ilk is underpinned by a form of biological essentialism. In short, it boils down to the view that sex governs gender and that the two are immutably linked to one another through a series of characteristics that define what is a ‘Man’ and what is a ‘Woman’. These ‘characteristics’ are usually to do with the genitalia of a person – specifically, whether or not they have a penis. Although its proponents claim to be feminists, this is an actively misogynist belief system. It is anti-feminst in two main ways. Firstly, it is an ideology that ‘still believes in the ontological reality of the Penis as hegemonic genitalia’, as Paul B. Preciado puts it in his Counter-Sexual Manifesto. By focusing so heavily on the phallus, biological essentialists perpetuate the patriarchal notion that the male genitalia is the ideal genitalia in our society. Secondly, as a result of this notion, it frames women as defined and regulated not by the genitalia they have, but by the ones they do not. By insisting that the penis is the defining genitalia not only of what is male, but also of what is female, it makes women definable only by the fact that they are not men. It is a straightforwardly toxic position that treats the continuation of violence against trans* people as an acceptable price to pay to help its defenders feel secure in their inflexible ideas about gender.

This issue should not just be left to the trans* community to deal with. Our cis-gendered allies need to speak up and help us, not only in amplifying our voices, but also in actively fighting against the systems that oppress and erase us. Many allies came forward to protest the government’s abandoning of the Gender Recognition Act consultation, but it’s not enough to only call out transphobia in the wake of individual highly-publicised events. One of the reasons that Linehan was able to get away with what he did for so long was that many turned a blind eye to it, often choosing simply to unfollow him rather than actively call him out. Many people who witnessed his increasingly vile behaviour consoled themselves with their fond memories of the comedy shows that he co-wrote. This tacit acceptance of his discourse gave him license to continue with his tirades against trans* people and their allies because he knew that he wouldn’t being challenged en masse without more continuously vocal support from the cisgendered community.


There is also further work to be done within the trans* community itself to help guide these conversations and make changes. Whilst we need the support of our cisgender siblings, they should not be leading the fight and talking for us. This leads to our concerns and needs being drowned out by those who do not know what it’s like to be trans, as seen with the case of Mermaids, an organisation led by a majority cisgendered staff group that works with trans children. This has resulted in a disconnect between the trans community’s needs and wants and what the organisation thinks needs to be done, as evidenced by their continued support of the police despite objections from within the community. In order to resolve these issues, the community’s voice needs to not only be listened to, but centred within organisations such as Mermaids in order to ensure that our voices are not lost or glossed over in the fight for our rights.

It’s good news that ‘Glinner’ is gone, but a lot more work needs to be done. In recent weeks, new figures have confirmed that trans* people are twice as likely to be victims of crime than cisgender indivudals, and yet the news has focused on Rowling continuing to sue anyone who dares call her out on her bullshit. What it shows is that the plight of trans people will always be secondary to those who weaponise their issues for as long as transphobia goes unchecked, even when the evidence shows how much more we suffer. We need the allies of the trans* community to speak up, and to make space for trans* folk to centre themselves in the creation of solutions to trans* issues, to ensure that the systemic transphobia in our society is finally booted to the curb once and for all.

Lewis Martin, Norwich Radical journalist
I don't even know, but that shit's creepy.

The BBC used to be great. Now it’s beyond parody.

Thankfully it's not just BBC, it's every major media outlet.

 

[Otterly]

Norwich Radical

That’s hilarious.
If you say it I’m a norrrrfolk accent it’s even funnier
Didn’t know they grew soy in the Broads.