On 2020-06-12 5:09 p.m., Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour wrote: > > And here is where the evil continues, just now: > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/us/politics/trump-transgender-rights.html
Yes that is awful. As the article points out this legislation was: "announced on the four-year anniversary of the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando and in the middle of Pride Month." There have been more murders of black trans women in the US as well recently - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dominique-fells-riah-milton-transphobia-new-calls/ And in the UK the Tories are being emboldened to roll back hard-won protections for trans people. So Rowling "just expressing valid concerns", as way too many people have said to me over the last day or so, isn't happening in a vacuum. And also is not actually in any way, shape or form "just expressing valid concerns". She's playing on people's fears and sympathies while repeating the battle-tested lies of anti-trans-rights extremists. The Sun are still scum for what they have done to her though. - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
