@Sayers33 The rare instance of transphobia where the person taking the most proximate impact is a cis person, thus someone the British press is willing to portray as worthy of sympathy - a real schoolboy error there
@flying_rodent Wonder if Peston might reflect on how the inability of his industry to inform and educate the populace, which is ostensibly their job, is an explicit part of government strategy now
@speakoutsister Isn't this just a media management issue for a coterie of committed transphobes? They aren't going to listen to a trans person because they have nothing but contempt for trans people, let alone for the trans people who would talk back to them
@OwenJones84@Anne72144845@Ohwow27811 imagine looking at this conversation and going "ah but you were once in a photo with a girl wearing a bawdy t-shirt, so...checkmate, I guess..."
@GarysBrain@bass4themasses @Elliot_Conway1 @BeckettUnite And yet not humble about it enough to not scold people who didn't have to make such an embarassing course correction
@brokenbottleboy Imagine thinking that you're working at more than 85% of your capacity in your role as a Times columnist. Probably untrue, damning if true.