Tragic. Utterly tragic. Our condolences and thoughts are with this woman's family.
I am struggling to verbalise my level of anger at this. Nothing I could write in this small a box, would do any of this justice.
Be careful out there folks
- Alex M
A 16yo trans girl, Brianna Ghey, has been stabbed to death in Warrington. Allegations are circulating of years of transphobic bullying leading up to this.
Horrified.
Rest up sis.
A cisgender sportswoman who takes part in competitive powerlifting is using her TikTok to reveal the constant attacks she faces from anti-trans trolls on her gender identity 🏋️🏳️⚧️
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#TransAwarenessWeek
🧵Trigger warning: suicide
I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice.
Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was fifteen, to her sister, Kate a year later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/
Florida passed a law to ban transgender athletes. They are now enforcing it by requiring female athletes to track their menstrual cycles and report it to the school and a 3rd party company called Aktivate.
This is downright dystopian.
1. In recent years, JK Rowling's defenders have argued she has "never said anything transphobic."
Today, she called transgender journalist India Willoughby "a man," and said that she was "cosplaying a male fantasy."
Lets dive into what happened.
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