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The UK trans community is under attack — and the mainstream media has blood on its hands
Apparently it is all about free speech: tell that to the trans woman who ends her evening out battered and bloodied
The last three years have seen an unprecedented level of vicious, sensationalist, misleading and outright untrue stories in the press and broadcast media painting trans people as abnormal and a threat. Little wonder that we are now seeing that work its way through into actual physical attacks on trans people going about their lawful business in public.
TW/CW: Extreme violence against trans people. Transmisogyny.
This is not going to be an easy piece to write. Not easy to read either and, seriously, if you are of a sensitive disposition, or just reeling from the hostility of the anti-trans campaigns over the last few years, just don’t!
The sorry truth, though, is that attacks on trans people are on the up. Or, before the transphobes and bigots get to work pushing their alternative agenda, which all too often boils down to “they were asking for it”, reported violent crime against trans people, and trans women in particular, is up across the board in the UK.
