This brilliant point from @OwenJones84 sums up the approach of so many anti-trans activists I encounter on here:
"The nature of prejudice is to seek out the extreme and the hypothetical and use it to tar an entire minority in order to lay the foundations for discrimination".
The more adulting I do the more I understand why the selling point of pretty much ALL TV ADVERTS is something about “offering peace of mind”. Yeah I’m in. Gimme peace of mind.
So Manchester University took an applicants £1k, rejected their application because they can’t make living costs, and didn’t give the money back. This applicant, a friend, then dies by suicide because of his absolute hopelessness of his situation.
It’s absolutely scandalous.
@rebeccamakkai When I started first year of uni in 2020 (peak covid) my department actually emailed the students saying “we hope you are all doing fairly ok”.
imagine finding our your ex is famous from just randomly switching on the telly, then calling your mates up for support and not only do they already know, they have made absolutely zero effort to tell you, and they’ve booked to see them live.
A non-verbal black teenager was arrested by the police and detained by the Home Office, who prepared his deportation to Nigeria.
But he’s a British citizen, who has never left Britain and was missing from a Kent hospital.
How is that anything but horrific racism?