So fucking sad. It’s going to continue unless something is done about the anti-trans agenda.
Almost an exact year after Brianna Ghey’s murder. This country is sliding backwards.
It’d be a real shame if this lil cunt gets stomped on in prison.
I feel like it stops being an alleged murder attempt and becomes a murder attempt at around the first stabbing personally.
WTF is wrong with this people?
So cruel!!!
*edit typo
I wonder if this’ll end up on r/england or only if certain details about the attacker’s identity are revealed to be of a specific type
Animals. I’m glad she survived at least. 🙁
To those in the media who use trans people to stoke culture wars: You have blood on your hands
Events like this are why influential people like JK Rowling are not “just harmlessly stating an opinion”. They know they are harvesting fear/hate and inciting crazies to commit crimes. If it was just an opinion, they would keep it to themselves and not post obsessively about it to the point that they become poster people for transphobia. I blame JK Rowling for this as much as I blame the stabber.
This is what happens when the PM is allowed to get away with weaponising hate for votes. Hope the poor girl survives
Good god. I’m thankful she survived
Thankfully this piece of shit was caught and will hopefully go away for a long time.
Some sort of gang fighting perhaps? Stabbing someone 14 times in front of people is quite mad. The gangland frenzy takes takes over if they don’t care about having witnesses. To what would have been Murder.
I worry for the future of young generations, just nothing to look forward to, attention spans of a gnat, random extreme violence like this, role models are Andrew tate and Twitch streamers.
*Reasonable concern*
We’re going to see the same cycle in the press. Misgendering, deadnaming, dead cats, crocodile tears, maybe another sick little daily mail podcast. And then back to “TRANS BATHROOM INVADERS” the next day.
In Poland a news presenter, who spent years spreading anti LGBTQ hate, had the humility to apologise to the community for what he’d done. I doubt any of the keyboard scratching cowards in our country will ever do the same.
A Year after Brianna Ghey too many trans people are being killed and for what because they don’t like the idea that someone can be who they are personally I just think there jealous and it’s so sad to think that so many kids are being killed like actual children it’s horrible
As a boring middle-aged and happily married gay man, far too old for Reddit, lol, I’m not sure how well qualified I am to speak about this. But I have a good memory, and I recall that this country has a tradition of tolerance towards transgender people: Jan Morris, for example, who was a pioneer, was a popular figure in the 1970s and she attracted a great deal of public support and benign interest. This hatred and paranoia is quite a new phenomenon, a little bit like the toxic rhetoric about gay people in the era of Section 28.
There is perhaps an even closer parallel between the ‘trans panic’ and the ‘Satanic abuse’ panic of the mid-1980s, with the same coalition of extreme feminists and religious zealots and even the same type of professionals: there was a transphobic social worker in the news quite recently, for instance.
Also, there is a connection between the rise in hate crime and other forms of seemingly senseless violence and the increasing verbal violence of current political debate. Most notable is the tendency to adopt extreme positions and then ‘double down’, refuse to compromise, meet halfway or see things from anyone else’s point of view. This complete lack of empathy from politicians and journalists helps to normalise extreme and hateful attitudes in the wider population, many of which were either nonexistent or withering away just a few short years ago.
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Trans people are human beings. Anyone spreading hatred to distract from their own failings has blood on their hands. The PM is one of those monsters as are the people who inflict the violence against trans people. Anyone spreading hate doesn’t have a place in our society.
Blame education…. we’re all dealing with cavemen mentality.
Gotta love when you kinda expect humanity to move forward but I honestly just don’t see it, like we get more aware of the terms that apply to us but we fight social barriers like they actually physically exist, like if we fight one person, that’ll somehow push things forward.
Like if we blame that unlucky call centre employee just trying to do their job then we’re getting somewhere.
I mean….if you gotta be told, no that doesn’t fix anything.
That’s the government doing jack shit,
That’s the employer/company pushing his luck as they always do without proper authority like our government is supposed to do.
This shit that happend today is never going to stop, it can’t, it simply won’t stop, no matter what sort of police state we’re heading towards, it’s always going to be education related.
You hate what you don’t understand,
The most basic human nature.
this is a fucking nightmare. we keep saying this but nobody listens and people keep dying.
trans people experience verbal abuse and physical violence every single day in this country. this also doesn’t count the other forms of discrimination that goes on in workplaces, at social functions, online. it doesn’t include the psychic fucking damage of seeing another member of your community persecuted every single day, only to wade into the comments section to see the biology-respecters-and-child-protecters who make our lives a living hell denying that this particular attempted murder of a child is really much concern at all, actually. it doesn’t address the way the government and news media discusses trans people. they talk about high suicide rates as if it’s not correlative with how shitty cis people treat us in basically every facet of our lives.
It’s not just the right wing who have blood on their hands here, there are transphobes all across the political spectrum and they know what they’re doing. every insinuation and innuendo. i almost have more respect for outright bigots, at least it’s a fucking ethos.and the “just asking questions people” can fuck off because the answers are out there, you just don’t believe it because trans people’s lived experiences aren’t as valid as your theorising and fav youtuber’s POV. we’re not a shadowy cabal of perverts who want to destroy society (fuckin’ getting there tho ngl) we just want to live our lives without fear of ANY verbal abuse or ANY physical violence based on how we appear to ignorant people.
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So fucking sad. It’s going to continue unless something is done about the anti-trans agenda.
Almost an exact year after Brianna Ghey’s murder. This country is sliding backwards.
It’d be a real shame if this lil cunt gets stomped on in prison.
I feel like it stops being an alleged murder attempt and becomes a murder attempt at around the first stabbing personally.
WTF is wrong with this people?
So cruel!!!
*edit typo
I wonder if this’ll end up on r/england or only if certain details about the attacker’s identity are revealed to be of a specific type
Animals. I’m glad she survived at least. 🙁
To those in the media who use trans people to stoke culture wars: You have blood on your hands
Events like this are why influential people like JK Rowling are not “just harmlessly stating an opinion”. They know they are harvesting fear/hate and inciting crazies to commit crimes. If it was just an opinion, they would keep it to themselves and not post obsessively about it to the point that they become poster people for transphobia. I blame JK Rowling for this as much as I blame the stabber.
This is what happens when the PM is allowed to get away with weaponising hate for votes. Hope the poor girl survives
Good god. I’m thankful she survived
Thankfully this piece of shit was caught and will hopefully go away for a long time.
Some sort of gang fighting perhaps? Stabbing someone 14 times in front of people is quite mad. The gangland frenzy takes takes over if they don’t care about having witnesses. To what would have been Murder.
I worry for the future of young generations, just nothing to look forward to, attention spans of a gnat, random extreme violence like this, role models are Andrew tate and Twitch streamers.
*Reasonable concern*
We’re going to see the same cycle in the press. Misgendering, deadnaming, dead cats, crocodile tears, maybe another sick little daily mail podcast. And then back to “TRANS BATHROOM INVADERS” the next day.
In Poland a news presenter, who spent years spreading anti LGBTQ hate, had the humility to apologise to the community for what he’d done. I doubt any of the keyboard scratching cowards in our country will ever do the same.
A Year after Brianna Ghey too many trans people are being killed and for what because they don’t like the idea that someone can be who they are personally I just think there jealous and it’s so sad to think that so many kids are being killed like actual children it’s horrible
As a boring middle-aged and happily married gay man, far too old for Reddit, lol, I’m not sure how well qualified I am to speak about this. But I have a good memory, and I recall that this country has a tradition of tolerance towards transgender people: Jan Morris, for example, who was a pioneer, was a popular figure in the 1970s and she attracted a great deal of public support and benign interest. This hatred and paranoia is quite a new phenomenon, a little bit like the toxic rhetoric about gay people in the era of Section 28.
There is perhaps an even closer parallel between the ‘trans panic’ and the ‘Satanic abuse’ panic of the mid-1980s, with the same coalition of extreme feminists and religious zealots and even the same type of professionals: there was a transphobic social worker in the news quite recently, for instance.
Also, there is a connection between the rise in hate crime and other forms of seemingly senseless violence and the increasing verbal violence of current political debate. Most notable is the tendency to adopt extreme positions and then ‘double down’, refuse to compromise, meet halfway or see things from anyone else’s point of view. This complete lack of empathy from politicians and journalists helps to normalise extreme and hateful attitudes in the wider population, many of which were either nonexistent or withering away just a few short years ago.
L
Trans people are human beings. Anyone spreading hatred to distract from their own failings has blood on their hands. The PM is one of those monsters as are the people who inflict the violence against trans people. Anyone spreading hate doesn’t have a place in our society.
Blame education…. we’re all dealing with cavemen mentality.
Gotta love when you kinda expect humanity to move forward but I honestly just don’t see it, like we get more aware of the terms that apply to us but we fight social barriers like they actually physically exist, like if we fight one person, that’ll somehow push things forward.
Like if we blame that unlucky call centre employee just trying to do their job then we’re getting somewhere.
I mean….if you gotta be told, no that doesn’t fix anything.
That’s the government doing jack shit,
That’s the employer/company pushing his luck as they always do without proper authority like our government is supposed to do.
This shit that happend today is never going to stop, it can’t, it simply won’t stop, no matter what sort of police state we’re heading towards, it’s always going to be education related.
You hate what you don’t understand,
The most basic human nature.
this is a fucking nightmare. we keep saying this but nobody listens and people keep dying.
trans people experience verbal abuse and physical violence every single day in this country. this also doesn’t count the other forms of discrimination that goes on in workplaces, at social functions, online. it doesn’t include the psychic fucking damage of seeing another member of your community persecuted every single day, only to wade into the comments section to see the biology-respecters-and-child-protecters who make our lives a living hell denying that this particular attempted murder of a child is really much concern at all, actually. it doesn’t address the way the government and news media discusses trans people. they talk about high suicide rates as if it’s not correlative with how shitty cis people treat us in basically every facet of our lives.
It’s not just the right wing who have blood on their hands here, there are transphobes all across the political spectrum and they know what they’re doing. every insinuation and innuendo. i almost have more respect for outright bigots, at least it’s a fucking ethos.and the “just asking questions people” can fuck off because the answers are out there, you just don’t believe it because trans people’s lived experiences aren’t as valid as your theorising and fav youtuber’s POV. we’re not a shadowy cabal of perverts who want to destroy society (fuckin’ getting there tho ngl) we just want to live our lives without fear of ANY verbal abuse or ANY physical violence based on how we appear to ignorant people.
we are not safe. please believe us.