From cruelty to fascism…

The journey is short

Adapted from The Fourth Stage of Cruelty: The Reward of Cruelty by William Hogarth (1751): understood to be in public domain

For regular readers, a bit of a diversion, as i read over from anti-trans ideology to mainstream politics. For the rest, there’s a bit about trans people at the start. If your first thought is to treat it as “debate”, this may not be for you.

Otherwise, read on.

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Let us start with an image; a sentiment, both vile and hateful. And TW for any trans folks — espesh trans women — of gentle disposition.

Tweet from Baroness Nicholson: 12 August 2022

Our NHS is creating fake and unsustainable vagines in male bodies — and forcing nurses to supposedly clean and service these aberrations of the human body. Our own wonderful NHS!

Vile and hurtful

It is vile because… it is wrong. Because the language it uses is misleading and hurtful. And because, at a time when trans healthcare is under greater pressure than ever before, its aim is to reduce that further. By demonising what is done within the NHS. So much to unpack.