🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Apr 19, 2024

⚠️ It's a trap ⚠️ (please boost for reach)

I was just informed that the Guardian (UK) is prepping to do a story on DIY HRT and is looking to interview trans folk, particularly teens.

The story will almost certainly be weaponized by conservatives to argue for removing access to the necessary materials.

Just like with the police, anything you say can and will be used against you by mainstream media.

Be safe out there fam   

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Update #2: God dammit Guardian US, I retract my kudos to you. This is why we can't have nice things.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/11/the-guardian-view-on-the-cass-report-rising-numbers-of-gender-distressed-young-people-need-help

Update #1: I wanted to share this article that was brought to my attention. The US Guardian wrote a piece that really gets to the heart of why I'm sounding a warning, while also helping to frame that this isn't directed at the .com Guardian—they seem to have a healthy viewpoint on how trans people should be treated.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/02/guardian-editorial-response-transgender-rights-uk

#HRT #DIY #LGBTQIA #Trans #Warning #Boost

The Guardian view on the Cass report: rising numbers of gender distressed young people need help

Editorial: The review of England’s child transgender health service is not a full stop in the debate but part of a continuing conversation

The Guardian
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@alice 100% agreed. Even if one gives the best interview ever given, one that convinces anyone who hears it that trans rights are ordained directly from god, the publication will simple not publish it. The absolute best case is that nothing is used from your interview.

Anything short of immaculate perfection will result in your words being misrepresented, misconstrued, and manipulated to support the narrative the publication wants. Unfortunately in this day and age of trans panic, that narrative is that Big Bad Trans is out to get everyone and their children, because that's what sells papers, enforces the status quo, and distracts from the actual baddies who run the horror show.

The only winning move is for trans people to tell our stories on our terms and on our own grounds, smaller as they may be. Someday mainstream media will give fair representation to trans people, but that day is not today, nor will it start with anyone who doesn't already have a large and supportive audience.

Apr 19, 2024 at 9:22amWeb