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To the prosecco feminists of the UK media, transgender is the real threat
Through work with Trans Media Watch, i am all too aware that the UK press is obsessed with trans people. A mix of insomnia and curiosity led me to do some very basic research and the results are shocking.
Now read on.
Media obsession
It has long been a given that the obsession shown by the mainstream media with anything trans-related is unbalanced. Out of all proportion to either the numbers involved or the actual impact on society at large, i noted sourly a year or so back, as the Times monstered yet another trans campaigner. Their crime? No more nor less than holding views on trigger warnings and student safety that just happened to be the exact same views held by many feminists and progressives since pretty much forever.
As it is, there are probably little more than 300 or so actual trans “activists” in the UK. Yet to read the “respectable” press, one would think we were an international crime syndicate, up there with the mafia in terms of our threat factor.
“…i could get used to [being treated like a mafia don], if it meant we were allowed to tease the likes of…