Watson

You know, if I hadn't joined this website 11 years ago, suffered death threats from Al-Qaeda & ISIS operatives, been slandered as a terrorist and received torrents of abuse from the far right and the far left, yesterday would have broken me. I would never have tweeted again.

There is an atmosphere on Twitter where it is quite literally an unbearable experience to exist as a trans person. The dehumanisation and targeted abuse is extreme. The toxicity is so intense that I spent nearly 16 (YES SIXTEEN) hours blocking the abuse I received.

Some of these abusive accounts go as far as accusing me of being a rapist, a pedophile, or someone that wants to commit genocide against Lesbians. The discourse is actually fully insane, deranged and disgusting. The people driving this campaign are totally radicalised.

It's no wonder the *silent majority* stay silent on trans issues, precisely because the extremity of the backlash for expressing moderate support for gender recognition is so terrifying that I can't believe that any normal person would ever want to use this website again.

I won't be shutting up, going away or being intimidated by slander, lies and outright hysteria accusing me of hating 50% of the world's population simply because I believe trans women are women. These people have zero ability to intimidate me.