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Five years ago, the East Of England Liberal Democrats posted a photo of two transgender women, me and @zoe, wearing “Bollocks to Brexit” T-Shirts.
It is a sign of how far UK politics has fallen that that is utterly unthinkable now. Both the total erasure of transgender people’s existence and acceptance of Brexit are utter orthodoxy across the political spectrum there now.
@goatsarah @zoe Do you reckon Brexit, at least in part, is to blame for the rise in British transphobia? Transphobia sadly exists in every country, but few countries are as trans-obsessed as the UK. Brits no longer have the EU to blame for all their problems, so they need another scapegoat. For that purpose, trans people are like low-hanging fruit.
@llwynog @goatsarah No, but I think they and at least one of the other great disasters of our era, climate change denialism, come from the same cause: Clickbait media and populist parties selling fear of “other” and disdain of experts.
The public is not as transphobic or xenophobic as the press likes to make out, though. But “trans people not a threat” and “asylum seeker actually had a bit of a rough time” doesn’t generate as revenue or get the voters out.