Making bigotry reasonable? Why the trans community in the UK is scared of Starmer (with appended section).
After some of the remarks made by Keir Starmer about trans women in the days leading up to the election, many in the trans community in the UK felt unable to celebrate the end of the grotesque Conservatives. Are his attitudes to us actually pretty close to those of the unhinged caricatures he replaced? It's easy to hate the grotesques. The ones with their faces, or minds, bent in rage; who wear their prejudice like a badge, crowing about common sense or decency or national values, or whatever it is, and smearing their victims with theatrical lies. The British Conservative Party has over the last eight years or so developed a thriving wing of these deranged fanatics. Ex Home Secretary, Suella Braverman - increasingly the Marjorie Taylor-Greene of British politics - has not lost any of her zeal, it's clear. Despite her party ending up with the lowest number of MPs since 1832 last week, she's spent at least two of the four days since making speeches about how appalling tran