It's depressing being a trans person in the UK now. All we get is hatred, false fears and discrimination. Some of the views in this thread show you that.
Ten year waiting lists for (fasttrack!) healthcare, lies and suggestions we are all sex predators when all we want to do is get on with our lives.
No-one transitions and all the shit we have to go through to perv on people in a changing room. We would all prefer private cubicles. Most of us actively avoid at all costs an open changing area. The poor trans woman in the Darlington case had no judgement of wrong doing on her behalf. None!
But the level of vitriol and hate thrown at us (and it's microaggressions) such as I'm not transphobic but I just care for women's rights. Perhaps if people were more honest with themselves they would admit that is not entirely the truth. It never is.
We have been in the bathrooms for over twenty years (and a lot longer) and none gave a fk and more likely that we get assaulted then the reverse. And i tell you what, after a short period on hormones even with tackle, it ain't going to do much.
It's really made life extremely unpleasant to be constantly assaulted by the press, called militants, an ideology, a fetish and God knows what.
We are people trying to live out lives as best we can.
Many of us, me included are just tired. Tired of being the community whipping board, tired of not being able to get a job, tired of the aggression for something that really isn't an issue in the honest, non stacked, facts.
It's truly becoming hard to keep on living when despised so much, through no fault of our own. I didn't ask to have this trans shit in my life, but I was born with it.
Believe me if I could have lived happily in my birth sex then all good - but I was going to end up dead by my own hand.
In modern Britain, I may have bought myself some time transitioning, but the hatred of us now takes me back to a dark place. It's relentless. Even I find it on what is meant to be a fun space, such as here.
As Helen Joyce, leading anti trans person said: " every trans person is a problem for a sane world."
Well. That's because of the way we are being treated, and given how intolerable it is, including this "innocent post", I'm thinking to check myself out and you can have one less trans person to give a toss about. Then find your next targets to scapegoat. Look at history - we are just the latest moral panic.
If someone does the wrong thing, hold them accountable. Not a whole community. Don't fall for the lies and easy tropes. Trans women are not winning any Olympic medals.
Trans women are not men. And that is why men thinking would they like another man in the female toilets is so easy to be concerned with. we are not. We don't sit wanking in stalls in the ladies loo. We just don't. And yes you can always find one weirdo example of a derranged individual somewhere to quote.
Now no trans person will say they can change sex. Gender identity however is very different, and multifaceted. Year 12 biology by the way is not nuanced enough / it is recognised that even sex itself is complicated.
I really hate life now in the UK. I truly don't know how much more I can take before going over the edge. Literally.
Some of you no doubt will cheer. Take a good long hard look at yourselves. You must have a happy life to be so obsessed with the small number of us.
Thanks for making my life just a little bit more shit than it is. I hope that gives you some satisfaction. |
