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Death by Trans
Trans Day of Remembrance appears increasingly not just a day for respectful mourning, but a day when the nay-sayers pop up to take a pop. Trans deaths aren’t real, they bleat. Or they aren’t significant. Because trans people don’t count!
Besides, where’s OUR day, they whine, in seeming unironic echo of every MRA ever when faced with International Women’s Day (March 8) or — snivel! International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
(25 November). Is there really any difference at all between the two groups any more?
Now read on.
This is a story i’d much rather not be tackling. Least of all, on a Sunday afternoon, on my birthday. But seeing as how the Twittersphere is awash with the usual suspects — gender criticals and MRA’s — going off on how “trans people aren’t really being murdered” and therefore “Trans Day of Remembrance is a bit of a nonsense, isn’t it?” it felt like someone needed to step in and poke holes in the disinformation already doing the rounds.
No trans murder: the lie simple
Two claims i have seen: the first, repeated ad nauseam, is that no trans women have been murdered in the UK in the last umpteen years. Or even if…
