Ciara Watkin is now a 21 year old woman who, 3 years ago, met a man of the same age through instant messaging apps and engaged in sexual activity with him. She has now been convicted and will be housed in a men’s prison as punishment for not wearing her inverted pink triangle armband at all times.
Some media outlets have issued retractions, albeit far smaller than their front page claims of “transgender ideology” however this has not stemmed the flow of anti-trans rhetoric and threats of violence. No responsibility has been taken, or will be taken, for the harm this reporting has and continues to put my community in who again: had absolutely nothing to do with any of this other than being someone Kirk was opposed to and liked to lie about.
After trans women were recently banned from the women’s game, attention is now turning to new restrictions on trans men, who must sign a declaration all are refusing to accept.
Learning to say sorry when we mess up is important. It’s important when you’re a rambunctious 3 year old smashing up plants, it’s important when you’re an adult and an editor forced to publish bigotry, and it’s important when you’re a prominent community voice trying to lead by example. It’s important to recognise and understand what you have done wrong and then to apologise, sincerely, for having done it.
It is absolutely going to be harder to survive, resist and flourish under this ruling. I will not sugarcoat that in any way. But it is not impossible, I don’t believe it will last forever and the crap time we spent in this awkward bigoted limbo will be so much more tolerable with the beauty that is community.
Trans Derangement Syndrome: A growing affliction that warps minds, wrecks lives, and fuels an all-consuming obsession. What causes it and can it be cured?
The bigot press have been hyping up the story of an NHS Nurse taking her employer to court over the existence of trans people and…
Two talks under the LGBTQ tag on Oxford Literary Festival have attracted widespread condemnation due to being held by anti-trans campaigners Julie Bindel and Helen Joyce, with Joyce being a straight cisgender woman and in no way LGBTQ. Previous years for Oxford Literary Festival have included a talk by Sharron Davies spreading anti-trans propaganda about the unfairness of leaving trans athletes alone and not being weird about them.
UK Press outlets are choosing to focus on attempting to manufacture a “queer panic defense” in which the actions of the attackers are excused due to the victim’s gender identity or sexual orientation. While also actively ommitting details which harm that; such as the fact that this attacker was recording sex without consent or that the attack happened over a week after the sex act took place.
Meta’s overhaul of its “Hateful Conduct” and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies has drawn sharp condemnation after the company explicitly allowed users to label LGBTQ+ people as “mentally ill.”