you might want to ignore either the pictures. or the text. there is dissonance.
[++ trigger warning: transphobia ++]
in january 2022, the council of europe issued a report saying that the uk – where sian lives – was one of the worst places in or adjacent to the european continent for lgbtq+ rights , putting these sceptred isles in the company of poland, turkey, russia and hungary.
the british delegates voted against the adoption of the report after trying and failing to get it reworded to remove mention of trans people. one of the delegates is a labour member of parliament close to where sian lives. this person is of course an active “gender-critical”, and the statement they made complained that to compare britain to benighted dumps like russia and poland was offensive, because we are not like them at all.
rishi sunak promised to institute systematic abuse on an industrial scale in his election manifesto for next month like it was something we wanted. sian rather thinks we are more like the russians than we think.
nowhere else is the phenomenon of the left-of-centre terf so prevalent and powerful as in the uk. in many ways, it is a uniquely british phenomenon. there are reasons for this, long standing systemic reasons to do with how second wave feminists were absorbed into the establishment, and how british feminism is both not intersectional and historically overwhelmingly white. gendercriticals happily align themselves with antivaxxers and holocaust deniers – be careful though, there’s at least one very prominent gendercritical holocaust denier who will sue you if you call them that. it is instructive to show that just because you are strongly committed to one good cause, it does not mean you cannot be equally as committed to an evil one at the same time.
they own the show.
emergency laws to block the young from transitioning have been passed; the chances of a person transitioning from zero in the uk now are next to zero.
sian does not even know why she is writing this, let alone what this has to do with pictures of the sort of thing that terfs – who are invariably not sex-positive and always swerfs too – would hate.
just putting it out there.
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