🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)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
Show threadMarcel
@alice This is an unfair generalisation of 'mainstream media'. I see no reason why to distrust The Guardian, I only know their reporting as fair and balanced. It's my go-to news source for balanced climate change reporting, for example. We don't do decent journalists a favour if we toss them all on the same pile. We need less polarisation, not more.
Apr 19, 2024 at 12:03pmWeb
Show threadKatherineApr 19, 2024

@kritischelezer @alice The Guardian has faced plenty of controversy over their coverage of trans issues. Just because you personally haven't seen a reason to distrust them, doesn't mean trans folks and their allies haven't.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/guardian-staff-trans-rights-letter

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

https://lithub.com/the-guardian-published-a-judith-butler-interview-and-then-deleted-a-part-that-condemned-gender-critical-transphobia/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5vx8j/guardian-trans-journalists

Hundreds Of Guardian Staff Have Signed A Letter To The Editor Criticising Its "Transphobic Content"

"The pattern of publishing transphobic content has interfered with our work and cemented our reputation as a publication hostile to trans rights and trans employees."

BuzzFeed
Show threadcthululemonApr 19, 2024
@kritischelezer @alice
More often than not, “I’ve only known X to be Y” should mark the beginning of introspection rather than its end.
Show threadarboreliaApr 19, 2024

@kritischelezer @alice The Guardian UK is extremely anti-trans, so much that the Guardian US wrote a mild op-ed trying to call them out on it.

If you don't have experience with this, listen to the people who do.

Show threadarboreliaApr 19, 2024

@kritischelezer @alice And "we need less polarization" is emphatically NOT the thing to say here.

"oh can't we just compromise on whether gender transition should be criminalized?" No! We cannot!