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Let's be clear. I'm scared.
As a trans woman. In my 70s. Who survived growing up queer in the 50s and 60s.I
Let's be clear. I'm scared.
As a trans woman. In my 70s. Who survived growing up queer in the 50s and 60s.I
I lost friends to the epidemic. A former flatmate: the boyfriend of another flatmate: a neighbour: a couple of close friends.
I don't go on about this because what is there to say. I survived and so did the rest of my friends. Some of whom are dead by now from other things.
I don't go on about this because what is there to say. I survived and so did the rest of my friends. Some of whom are dead by now from other things.
I was scared then. Of disease. Of street violence. Of politicians of the Right.
I'm still scared of those things.
I never before had to be scared of other socialists, other journalists, other feminists, other queers.
Now I am.
I'm still scared of those things.
I never before had to be scared of other socialists, other journalists, other feminists, other queers.
Now I am.
Obsessive hatred of trans people like me is scary. It's not yet a mass movement.
The right see it as a wedge issue. Parts of the left either share it or see trans people as a necessary sacrifice to populism. Many journalists see it as a hot clickbait topic or as career bait.
The right see it as a wedge issue. Parts of the left either share it or see trans people as a necessary sacrifice to populism. Many journalists see it as a hot clickbait topic or as career bait.
Some other queers see us as something to through out of the sled to delay the wolves or project their own self-hatred onto us.
For some other feminists it's a purity thing. Or a way to avoid understanding the complex nuances of modern intellectual life.
Or maybe they're bigots.
For some other feminists it's a purity thing. Or a way to avoid understanding the complex nuances of modern intellectual life.
Or maybe they're bigots.
Today a young black lesbian lawyer and activist said that trans people are a cult who need to be 'stopped'.
I am not sure what she means by that. Some sort of re education camp probably.
To this end she and others like her are prepared to sell out other women to Right allies.
I am not sure what she means by that. Some sort of re education camp probably.
To this end she and others like her are prepared to sell out other women to Right allies.
