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& #39;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& #39;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& #39;s a catchy story-arch isn& #39;t it? Scary trans freaks vs. innocent, & #39;normal& #39; 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& #39;ll clock me and attack me. This is the environment the media has fostered: drip feeding insidious ideas about how I& #39;m deceptive or predatory.
And much of it is because a few prominent journalists are sore from being called names on https://twitter.com"> https://twitter.com .

I appreciate these writers are panicking. They& #39;ve held coveted, well-paid positions for years and fear losing them.

We all like buying nice things.
But I& #39;d implore them to look at what they& #39;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& #39;re making it worse.
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