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Just did a search of tweets by people I follow - anyone who isn& #39;t trans that ever used the word t***ny has been unfollowed. And it was a few of you too
What got me thinking was how normalised transphobia in music culture was until recently. Jai Paul& #39;s page at http://btstu.com"> http://btstu.com currently references the snide reviews of what is literally an all time classic. When I googled what they were from the transphobia kinda leapt out
Today& #39;s thread is about transphobia, but another day I might come back to @alex_macpherson and the hill he is willing to die on, which is continuing to futilely suggest there is no merit to Jai& #39;s music. I& #39;m glad Alex no longer gets asked to write about music
The @guardian has always loved pushing the boundaries of casual transphobia. People have been given columns off the back of it!
@LukeTurnerEsq being a typically oafish posh dickhead as always
More @pitchfork
That time AG Rojas & @officialSpzd made a horrifically exploitative video and the music press was too dumb to do anything but applaud
At least one lone voice called out how violent and unnecessary this video was
The reason why I post these is to show that culture used to situate casual transphobia as a punchline or cheap gag. The community was too marginalised to defend itself. This was some of the transphobic content in & #39;05 which stopped me starting HRT:
This was a music blog which specifically targeted me with transphobic posts. I remember no-one thinking anything of it at the time....
