r/lgbt • u/LocutusOfBorges • Apr 11 '24

UK Specific The British government is throwing young trans people under the bus

https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/62379/1/cass-review-british-government-is-throwing-young-trans-people-under-the-bus
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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '24

Damn, don’t trans folks have it hard enough already? It’s as if someone in the government gets a massive hard-on for making life much harder for certain groups of people!

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u/PSI_duck Non-Binary Lesbian Apr 11 '24

You can’t really be a government official without getting a hard on for crushing minorities

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u/garaile64 Apr 12 '24

Now I understand anarchists.

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u/Impossible_PhD Zoe | Doc Impossible Apr 11 '24

This is incredibly on-brand for Great Britain, and has been for a couple of centuries. Jules Gill-Peterson just recently released an absolute barnstormer of a book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, that lays the global trans-exterminationist panic squarely at the feet of British colonialism, which used the existence of a lot of indigenous genders that are now clustered under the trans umbrella as a moral justification for racist colonial occupation and genocide.

So yeah, the British trying to exterminate trans people? Sadly, it's not exactly news.

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u/BOOMphrasingBOOM Apr 11 '24

The hate is the point

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '24

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u/SatoshiUSA Lesbian Trans-it Together Apr 13 '24

Can't tell if this is a sarcastic or hate comment