We are Truly FUCKED

[LostOne4Ever]

We now will have our own British anti-trans news media. All the transphobia that the British News networks push will be mirrored in the US. How they allowed the Cass Review to go by with no attempt to correct the biased pseudoscience being pushed? Expect the same here in the States.

The New York Transphobes have been bad for a while but now the Washington Post is going to join them. Combined with the rightward push of CNN we will now have NO major news media that will stand up for the truth.

We are FUCKED!!!

3 Smart Takes on the Shake-up at the Washington Post and What the Mini British Media Takeover Might Mean
The Washington Post and Daily Beast are about to experience a major culture change.

PARKER MOLLOY
JUN 06, 2024

Hi all, Parker here.

On Monday, Washington Post publisher Will Lewis shook things up by pushing out executive editor Sally Buzbee and replacing her with a British duo to lead a new, divided newsroom structure.

Matt Murray, former editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, will lead the Post through this year’s elections before focusing on new editorial ventures to generate revenue, including micropayments and social media. Afterward, Rob Winnett, currently the deputy editor at the Telegraph, will take over the Post’s main newsroom

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What does this mean for those two outlets? Here’s one grim theory.

As you may (or may not) know, the level of anti-trans obsession that flows through the mainstream British press is truly wild. For instance, Assigned Media’s Evan Urquhart notes that as of Wednesday, the Telegraph had already published 10 separate anti-trans articles already this week alone. Yes, the same Telegraph whose deputy editor will soon run the Post.

[…]

I’m telling you right now, when the Daily Beast or Washington Post, which already isn’t great about trans issues, starts going all in on anti-trans stories and op-eds 1, 2, or 5 years from now, I don’t want a single person to be like, “No, it’s not a moral panic!” It is and it will be.

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[Maraya1969]

1. I think my rebuttal is pretty good so I am going to share it here.

I hope no trans people get upset and if they do, give me a better explanation.

Babies are born with birth defects all the time. Sometimes they are born without arms or legs or a deformity in one of more. Sometimes they are born without the ability to see color or to see at all. Sometimes they are born with an inability to see certain things in the proper order, like with dyslexia. There are chromosomal abnormalities, auto-immune abnormalities. Brain abnormalities.

What on earth would make you think that an abnormality where the genitals and hormones are not synchronized with the identity of the brain is a character defect or has anything to do with character or sexual deviancy when all these other abnormalities are a matter of biology? Transsexuality is nothing than an abnormality between the brain's sexual identity and the corresponding sexual organs of the body.

[LostOne4Ever]

2. Rebuttal of what?

My thread wasn’t making an argument but pointing out that we will now have the two biggest mainstream newspapers in the US having an explicitly anti-trans bias.

Maraya1969

1. I think my rebuttal is pretty good so I am going to share it here.
I hope no trans people get upset and if they do, give me a better explanation.

Babies are born with birth defects all the time. Sometimes they are born without arms or legs or a deformity in one of more. Sometimes they are born without the ability to see color or to see at all. Sometimes they are born with an inability to see certain things in the proper order, like with dyslexia. There are chromosomal abnormalities, auto-immune abnormalities. Brain abnormalities.

What on earth would make you think that an abnormality where the genitals and hormones are not synchronized with the identity of the brain is a character defect or has anything to do with character or sexual deviancy when all these other abnormalities are a matter of biology? Transsexuality is nothing than an abnormality between the brain's sexual identity and the corresponding sexual organs of the body.

I’m not upset so much as confused on what you are arguing?

Who here is saying that being trans is a character or sexual deviancy? Mostly it is transphobes saying that. That said, when a person is born different in ways that cause problems we as a society find ways for them to function and find happiness. People with Dyslexia (including myself) learn how to cope, people born with poor eye sight get glasses, people with missing limbs get prosthesis, people with disfigurements get plastic surgery, and trans people transition so that our bodies can better match who we are.

Are you saying that we are claiming being transgender isn’t biological? Being trans is both biological and social as is gender itself. There are studies showing that trans people have areas of their brains that both resemble and function more like the brains of the sex they identify as than the one they are assigned.

I apologize but I don’t get what you are arguing? I don’t see anything that I would argue against other than to say I would word your post a little differently as referring to anyone as defects/abnormalities can feel insulting /dehumaninng which I don’t think is your intention?

[Maraya1969]

4. Of the people who say trans people have chosen to be that way because they are not moral

I guess I just had that in my head and didn't explain

[LostOne4Ever]

5. You are fine!

I appreciate you fighting the good fight! It truly feels dark right now and I’m scared like I have never been before about the future!

So I am deeply deeply grateful for every single ally! Truly, Thank you for being there!

[Maraya1969]

6. Thank you. I try. I am bisexual and years ago, in the dark age I knew what it was like

to be literally shunned by family, (my brother) because of who I was. It really is personal

[ouija]

3. They don't believe any of it, it's about making money