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UK journalism vs. “trans ideology”

A myth most convenient for the lazy hack…

jane fae
8 min readOct 26, 2022
Adapted from Moses descends from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments by Ferdinand Bol (1662): public domain. Speech reads: Moses: “And lo! I bring you an ideology in 10 commandments…” First Israelite: “Does it say no cross-dressing?” Moses: “No!” Second Israelite: “Can we go for best of 20, then?”
Adapted from Moses descends from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments by Ferdinand Bol (1662): public domain

Trans people mostly don’t mind UK journos inquiring into what they want. The problem is that these same journos frame a perfectly reasonable trans desire to be left alone to live their lives as “ideology” — and utterly fail to inquire about the ideological under-pinnings of the anti-trans.

That’s about as skewed as it gets. As skewed as a one-eyed, one-legged tory-leaning hamster wrestling with the theory of socialism within the paradigm of Marxist-Hegelian dialectic. No, i don’t know what that would look like, either. But it sounds fun.

Now read on.

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Earlier this week i chatted with a member of the great and the good about bias in the media, and Kemi; well, she said…

What? No. Of course i did not speak to our post-truth Minister for Equalities. Chances of that are approx. less than 1 in a billion; and even then we’d be discoursing through the medium of 3" plate glass, with industrial strength filters in place to ensure that she at no time breathed a whiff of trans-exhaled air.

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jane fae
jane fae

Written by jane fae

Feminist, writer, campaigner on political and sexual liberty who also knows a bit about IT, the law and policing. Not entirely serious…

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