#anyway terfism in Scotland and the uk as a whole is so fucking astroturfed it's unreal

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I legit hate it here on TERF Island you cannot open any newspaper or news site for any reason without hitting an article about the Trans Menace. literally any to the opinion page of the local paper to pick up a link for a column my boss wrote about rising rough sleeping in the city and top line, top of the page, "Sturgeon is using gender bill to fuel culture war."

also on that in particular. take the L my guys. you couldn't even fucking muster a full gallery of transphobes. literally every time there's a transphobic protest they're massively outnumbered by counterprotesters. over and over again, attempts to leverage transphobia for populist electoral gain fail. THE GENERAL PUBLIC DO NOT AGREE WITH YOU.

like Scottish transphobes are addicted to this narrative that trans rights are being undemocratically pushed forward by the government as part of a conspiracy to impose transness on an unwilling nation or something. but open transphobia is not, all told, correlating with a massive upswing in broad public support. the current government were p clear on being in favour of trans healthcare and rights reforms at the last election, and Alba and the Family Party ran almost entirely on a platform of transphobia and what did that get them? let me just check ohhhh it's 0 seats in Scottish parliament and 2 in Westminster, both of whom were voted in as SNP MPs.

The Scottish people are not being silenced or overridden. They're Just Not That Into You. because your behaviour is fucking unhinged and your beliefs are hateful and abhorrent to even people who don't really Get The Whole Trans Thing. and in a time when the cost of living is increasing exponentially, homelessness and hunger have been on a constant rise for years, and the UK government are serving their own interests while cracking down on protest, your top priority as "feminists" is trying to shut down rape crisis centres and women's aid organisations for not being transphobic enough.

#red said #re that last part. my best friend works at the local rape crisis centre and you would not BELIEVE the sustained harassment #that staff and volunteers have been getting for YEARS because the centre has a trans director and accepts trans clients #which is. normal. women's shelters across Scotland have been accepting trans women as clients for well over a decade #and this has at no point and in no way correlated with abuse #anyway terfism in Scotland and the uk as a whole is so fucking astroturfed it's unreal #it's literally like. 500 people being really fucking loud #whenever it comes up in conversation like. in pubs and cafes and places and i overhear people talking #it's mostly. bafflement. like wtf is this about? #and i don't mean like with my Woke Mob of Queers i mean like. old men having a pint and mums having a cuppa.