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I keep seeing Americans commenting on what is happening in the UK blaming it on the UK government and let me be clear, our government is awful, but this isn't a motion brought in by a few politicians, this is a reactionary hate movement found throughout the powerful across the UK
This isn't like the Trump Trans Military Ban, a partisan political policy from one side, this is something that gets support from the far-right but also politicians who claim to be on the Left, of media editors, including those of 'liberal' publications like the Guardian.
I'm not sure that unless you're trans in the UK, you can appreciate the sheer pervasiveness of this transphobic backlash. There is not a single national newspaper that can be relied on - trans people are called out for being ultra-feminist and anti-feminist at the same time.
The state broadcaster has transphobia as an editorial policy to the extent they add transphobic content to the articles of their own LGBT editor. Even some cis LGB folk here are trying to throw trans ppl under the bus out of hope it will make them look more respectable in turn.
So yes please do sound the alarm, but don't get the impression this is the action of a rogue prime minister because this is a rot that is deep in the fabric of British political and media elites, even while the majority of the rest of the population are increasingly fine.
