If you think transphobes in the UK press are being silenced, you are stuffing your ears with torn up newspaper.

2020 has been brutal.

If you are cis, it probably doesn't affect you all that much, but I wake up and wonder what fresh fuckery each day will bring.

There is no balance. There are zero trans columnists at any UK paper. I can think of two or three leading cis journalists who've been allowed to write sympathetic pieces about trans lives.

I would say these voices are, by far, the most silenced of all.

Because it's a catchy story-arch isn't it? Scary trans freaks vs. innocent, 'normal' women? Plays nicely alongside Woke Millennial Snowflake Vegan Corbynista vs. The People.

Allowing cis women to write about their trans friends, family members, colleagues; or pointing out trans women have been peacefully using single-sex spaces for literally decades ruins the plot. Like mobile phone reception in horror films.

ALL we hear are baseless concerns and opinions. When I came out, I worried people would clock me and PITY me. Now I worry they'll clock me and attack me. This is the environment the media has fostered: drip feeding insidious ideas about how I'm deceptive or predatory.

And much of it is because a few prominent journalists are sore from being called names on https://twitter.com .

I appreciate these writers are panicking. They've held coveted, well-paid positions for years and fear losing them.

We all like buying nice things.

But I'd implore them to look at what they're doing. The words you write manifest in the lives of trans and/or non-binary people.

Any gender non-conforming person knows the fear of stepping outside. And you're making it worse.