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The BBC has revealed that it has taken down links to charities that support #trans children and young people like @Mermaids_Gender following "audience complaints" about them.
Anyone who understands the way the organised transphobic hate groups work... https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/30/bbc-pride-trans-hate-campaign-mermaids-action-line-transphobia-gender-trust/
Anyone who understands the way the organised transphobic hate groups work... https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/30/bbc-pride-trans-hate-campaign-mermaids-action-line-transphobia-gender-trust/
...will know that this means that an organised campaign of anti-trans haters was arranged, with people citing largely unsupported news articles and vanity-published writing, which LOOKS like bona-fide research. None of the people in that misleading campaign will have been...
...bona-fide experts on gender identity in children and young people. People like Jules Gill-Peterson, Kristina Olson, Michelle Telfer, Florence Ashley, Anna Carlile, Giodano & Holm, Jadva et al, Tobias Raun, and Temple-Newhook et al, to name but a few...
...indeed I could fill this entire thread with experts, from medicine, psychology and other disciplines, who have published (and properly peer-reviewed) work that would support the work of charities like @Mermaids_Gender and @Genderintell in the ways they support #trans...
...children and young people. For the BBC to give in to such mob rule by anti- #trans hate groups (most of which are funded by the US extreme right) suggests that there is a huge problem with institutional transphobia at the BBC.
Attempting to deny trans children & their parents
Attempting to deny trans children & their parents
...access to vital, and lifesaving, information, based on the actions of hate groups whose faux 'concerns' mask a deep hatred for all #trans people and a determination to harm trans kids by whatever means they can. Unless the BBC has been on Mars the last three years...
...It could not have failed to notice the campaigns against #trans people in the media and the resistance to that amongst trans people. They could not have failed to notice the actions of famous transphobes whose pronouncements have literally been full of visceral hate...
...and who refer to materials produced that have been discredited by material like jack Turban MD who has completely discredited a piece tweeted by JK Rowling, for example... https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/political-minds/202007/jk-rowling-and-the-chamber-trans-youth-misinformation
... The truth is that there is a well-funded (by the extreme right) and well-organised hate campaign targeting #trans children that is working to remove any material or links that might help trans kids and save their lives. This can only be regarded as child abuse...
... yet the BBC has acted on this as if it is genuine. The fact that they have done so without consulting the organisations concerned, or parents of #trans kids, suggests a high degree of complicity of individuals at the BBC in this. The BBC needs to give a full account of...
...its actions and to reinstate these life-saving links. The BBC has chosen the side of the transphobes and the haters, it has chosen to engage with people who want to harm #trans kids. That is unforgivable....
...Meanwhile it is incumbent on all #trans people and allies to regularly tweet links to groups like @Mermaids_Gender and @Genderintell regularly to ensure that they are available to those who need them.
http://genderedintelligence.co.uk https://mermaidsuk.org.uk
http://genderedintelligence.co.uk https://mermaidsuk.org.uk
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