From my pov it can't be overstated how much the NZ local anti trans movement relies on both the materials produced by the British anti-trans movement in their various shell forms of lobby groups, and the enthusiastic reportage of it from the British media. I did a deep dive into one of our anti trans groups lobby projects and every single one eventually led back to a British anti trans organisation.
There's also the Women's Declaration International, which used to be the Women's Human Rights Campaign and was started in Britain. The declaration calls for pretty much eliminating trans women specifically from all legislation, which is the cornerstone belief of the movement - that trans women, and trans men, should not and do not exist or deserve protections that others get.
Those folks are important because their US chapter has provided
model legislation to many of the states currently banning trans healthcare for young people or just outright, implementing bathroom bans, etc. They're proud of this, they're
celebrating it on their website. Which is extremely Human Rights of them.
The thing that stands out is that trans people have always existed, and culturally and societally have gained like 5% more acceptance in the last decade or so. They use gender appropriate toilets and changing rooms already, but not always because they're often afraid of being targeted. They access healthcare but often provision sucks and processes can be drawn out and undignified.
What's happening here is a deliberate attempt to legislate them out of places they have already existed, to deny them the healthcare that was available to them. The UK Govt stopped the Scottish GRA, a law that Ireland have had since 2015 with no issues.
When the anti trans movement go after these laws, they always create a bogeyman trans monster and Never Ever reference the fifteen or so countries which have had this legislation in place for up to a decade now. Surely if the law was so bad for women, they'd have multiple examples from places which have it in place? But they don't, because what they're scaremongering about doesn't happen.
This leads to a demonisation and dehumanisation problem. Anti trans groups will repeatedly highlight individual criminals who have been convicted of sexual assault and use them as the reason why trans people can't update a document, or use a toilet etc.
Except to use that as your example is the equivalent to saying cis women shouldn't be allowed near kids because Rose West and Myra Hindley exist, which is absolutely fucking insane but apparently OK if you're saying it about trans women.
A little bit more critical thinking on almost any anti trans issue tends to undermine it. Oh, you don't want trans women in women's prisons because that's dangerous to cis women, cool but also trans women in cis mens prisons is dangerous, oh and don't all prisons have solid violence and sexual assault issues anyway, on a much larger scale often involving staff and officers. Yeah but that's not fixable by targeting trans people.
The groups which genuinely believe trans people don't really exist, and you can't discriminate against people that aren't real, or that transitioning doesn't help anyone really so it's ok it can be banned - almost always strip trans women and men of any agency in favour of this imagined horror show idea of what being trans is.
To them, having sunk a gallon of the kool aid, trans women are all perverts and paedos based on the entirely unevidenced idea of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, (a study where the guy found some parents who didn't like they had trans kids and presented an idea that this was a psychological problem that could be resolved by refusing to let them transition), and autogynephilia which says trans women only transition to be sexually attracted to themselves (which, tbh ?!??). Oh and also the only reason any trans women exist is purely to target women. The anti trans movement want to detransition them to keep women safe, which is to say, to eliminate trans women from existing.
Trans men on the other hand are either self hating dykes who can't admit they're lesbian and so have to transition to resolve their inner conflict with their sexuality, or they've been tricked by the trans medical establishment (which does not exist god damn) into taking hormones and having surgery, which is where you get insane people yelling about "mutilating children" when no surgery doesn't happen until you're a lot older except in extremely specific cases. The anti trans lot want to detransition them so they can be women again, whether or not that's what trans men actually want.
Thing is, if you meet a trans person and get to know them you'll quickly recognise how fucking mad these claims are, and how fucking weird it is to have whole cohorts of journalists and activists and politicians yelling about you, but only talking about you as something completely Othered, abstracted from the reality of your existence to the point that you don't recognise yourself in what they're saying because they're talking about the imagined version of you they're using to take away your social license, your public existence and your right to healthcare.
And that's where the rubber really starts burning. Because the anti trans movement have successfully constructed a cargo cult evil trans lobby, and evil trans scarecrows, and their supporters believe that anyone providing or advocating for trans healthcare or trans people is that evil lobby or any trans person is that evil trans scarecrow.
Except obviously it's spreading to the entire LGBQTI community, despite the efforts of some reactionary LGB Alliance fucking shithead cunts to try and cut trans people out of the community. Target in the states is removing it's Pride displays because staff are being threatened, that's happening right now this week.
The people behind the attempt to cut the trans community out of the rainbow community did so because they were happy to throw trans people to the fucking wolves. Except they were stupid enough to think the right wing and psycho Christians and neo fash would accept that and leave the rest of the community alone. Because they're as dumb as a sack of wet sand.
So now we're in a situation where allowing the trans community to be dehumanised, demonised and denigrated means the entire community is under attack and it's all coming out from British anti-trans lobbyists getting embedded in the establishment and the US Christian right and anti trans 'feminists' joining forces.
And like I said before, when members of the LGBTQi community pointed this out to anti trans people about five or six years ago, they were told that actually this was a Very Feminist issue. Except it was always this, right from the start.
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