Trans People are a Menace to God-Fearing Toilets
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/07/trans-people-are-a-menace-to-god-fearing-toilets
* 2016: UK mainstream press carried story re: trans people/political correctness
* Oxford University bans the words "he, she"
* story not true ...
[thread] Weaponization of language
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110781650540586495
Discrediting the Transphobic "Bathroom Predator" Myth
https://persagen.com/docs/transgender_bathroom_meme.html
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Trans People are a Menace to God-Fearing Toilets
As with any narrative of ‘political correctness gone mad’, this specific example provides us with a surreal and topsy-turvy inversion. It relocates a marginalized group – in this case trans people – in a position of great power and influence, and thereby helps disguise the vulnerability of the group and the social oppression and discrimination it is subject to. In the US, for instance, trans women are more than four times more likely to be murdered than cisgender women. Black trans women are seven times more likely to be murdered than the average member of the general population.