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The Emigration Playlist - 64 years of songs: #17 Yanada - The Preatures (2017)

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As I get to this wonderful song - which you have probably never heard (unless you (a) are Australian or (b) spotted it on my social media about two years ago) - it's hard to write. I am going to start this entry by spending some time on why that is, and I will then come back to this glorious, joyous piece of music. I am leaving the UK - the whole point of this blog series. That process is underway. We are selling our house and, all being well, it should get us to Ireland by January or February next, though anyone who's ever bought or sold a house will know just how many things can go wrong, so chickens remain very much unhatched and uncounted as yet, of course. The underlying theme of my writing in all these posts is grief. I am grieving my country - what I thought it was at least. I am grieving an identity - British - and what I once thought that stood for. As I am a trans woman, I have already been through one deeply traumatic period of my life - divorce and transition - whic...
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GCs and Trans Women can no longer speak to each other. So I got two LLMs to do it.

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Communication between trans people and 'Gender Critical' feminists in the UK has completely broken down. There seems to be no way that the divide can ever be crossed now. Sex Matters effectively writes government policy, whilst the voices of trans people and groups are assiduously and completely ignored. The essential British government's position, no matter how it's dressed up in liberal, self-soothing doublespeak, is that trans people don't actually exist. Because no dialogue can now take place, I wanted to imagine it. I was recalling the last time when actual human beings could discuss these matters face to face. I was involved in some initiatives to try and bring trans people and Gender Criticals (were they even called that back then?) together, but by about 2014 these had pretty much collapsed. As the culture wars that have torn British society to pieces then deepened, the possibility of even the barest contact has vanished. Now, GC 'feminists' push the...
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