This is what fear can do to a nation. Fear of the other, fear of SkyDaddy(TM), fear of loss of dominion. America is failing, and has now hit freefall. If it's citizens don't push back and push back hard, this hyper authoritarian streak will metastasise.
One of the most insidious results of transphobic rhetoric is the way it's caused most of the UK to believe that trans people will yell at them and try to somehow destroy their lives if they merely make a non-deliberate linguistic error out of a lack of knowledge.
Pretend police officers wandering around Brum today. Two came and sat next to me upstairs in pret. Security guards in black and hi vis, wearing UK thin blue line patches. I'm sure impersonating the police is a crime.
Cis people: I need you to understand (and help others understand) that “the trans debate” is NOT relevant “to only a small number of people” but to everyone. Thread below for why:
(This is focused on cis women, but cis dudes I need you to listen too. You are also in danger.)
would like to politely but firmly remind kate bush that making deals with supernatural beings is perilous at the best of times, but to do so whilst running up (or down) a hill is bordering on delinquent
The absolute state of this.
A Cabinet Minister now admitting the Conservative Government failed to prepare our country for a pandemic in which 180,000 people in the UK died.
They failed to keep us safe.
You just can’t trust them.