The Growth of the Anti-Transgender Movement in the United Kingdom. The Silent Radicalization of the British Electorate
The Growth of the Anti-Transgender Movement in the United Kingdom. The Silent Radicalization of the British Electorate
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A most insightful peer reviewed piece that argues that the literature on radicalisation, which was developed in the U.K. in response to the thread of domestic terrorism in the early 2000s, can explain the rise of the anti-trans movement in the U.K., and how they successfully take advantage of appeals to free speech whilst actively working to restrict trans peoples access to basic amenities.
It’s a fascinating read that is accessible (by standards of academic writing) and worth going beyond the abstract.
Lets all thank the moderators for putting a doubleplusgood comment restriction on this thread – being in charge of determining the views people are allowed to express must be tiring work.
Does this differentiate between:
1) Genuine hatred towards the transgendered.
2) Merely not agreeing with the methods used by the “pro-transgendered”
Cause it’s entirely possible to be pro-transgender, but utterly despise the acts of hounding people out of their jobs and ruining lives due to differing opinions.
If this distinction is not made, then this is liable to fall into the same issues that are present in many other areas (World climate vs. the actions of extremist climate groups, Jewish religion vs. Israeli state, etc.)
> But events in the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 should serve as a warning. The demonization of a group may not always remain a nonviolent pastime. A group of people infused by conspiracies disseminated in the media over a period of time need not stay cognitively radicalized. Sometimes they become behaviorally radicalized and turn violent. That should worry any sentient person observing the present UK debate on transgender rights.
The mumsnet riots are coming
I think my disagreements with this article are that it wrongly:
* equates those who are prejudiced against trans people with those who think a person’s biological sex is more important than how they identify.
* describes people who think biological males are a threat to biological females as people who think transwomen *in particular* pose such a threat.
I mean even the left wing in the UK is fucking full of it, as proven by this comment section.
My only comment on this is that hte radicalisations is definitely not silent.
I’d love to walk down the street one day without some kind of homosexual slur tbh.