Explaining to British people that their media is so heavily biased they'll print outright lies as long as they're transphobic is a bit of an uphill climb, but I've got my belay rope and my pitons so let's go.
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Replying to @cnlester
Oh I know THAT. This one goes out to all those other inhabitants of your fair isle (uh, and that little part of Ireland, and I think a few small coastal islands maybe).
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It's a bit more complicated than it might look on the surface, I think
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If you don't follow
@TransMediaWatch (thinking particularly of@HelenCBelcher's submission to Leveson - don't make me think how long ago that was!) then I really recommend it2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes -
Followed, and thanks. I admit I mostly just came up with the climbing joke and went from there, but I did get one nice lady to admit she'd been misinformed as to the broadness with which "chestfeeding" was going to be applied.
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I think one of the things which is hard to convey is that this isn't *just* transphobia - it's a complicated product of press laws/libel laws/ongoing practice etc. etc. etc. - and that trans ppl are not the only targets of media scaremongering to sell papers/get clicks.
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They'll cheerfully scaremonger about banana bendiness regulations. This is not a joke, they actually did that.
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Ah, the *good old days* when Boris Johnson was a journalist
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I was reminiscing earlier today about the "crazy leftwing language" scare stories of my youth (in the US, but probably UK had this). It was about about crazy women using Ms instead of Miss/Mrs, waitperson instead of waitress, and flight attendant instead of stewardess.
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"strident feminist" "hairy-legged woman's libber" etc.
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But yes, we really got those too. Especially around the time of the "debate" about women vicars, if childhood memory serves.
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