With the trans population being around 0.5%, politicians can afford to not want your vote. At 0.5 % you are useful as scapegoats though. The recent church shooting, and the trans man in Nashville in 2023 shooting up a school. is really not going to help with the hate. You will get them saying "See, trans people are really mentally ill" this just goes to prove it.
In the UK as in the US we have a lot of hate about illegal immigrants. In 2023 we had 860,000 immigrants come to the UK. All the hate is directed at the illegal ones that float over from France in rubber dinghies. There are about 100,000 of those per year. These seem to be 90% young men. The problem is, they used to be put in detention centers, but now they are housed in hotels. This gives them a lot of freedom. With the immigration procedure taking 12 months, it gives ample opportunity for the "wrong un's" to show their true nature. It will only be a few out of the hundreds of thousands. But just like trans people, a few bad examples will be held up and they will say " Look! see what they are like.
Vote for us and we will keep your children safe" After all, the Nazis said Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children in rituals.
I do understand, that in both countries it is costing a hell of a lot of money. In the UK in 2023/24, the Home Office spent approximately £4.7 billion on asylum support, including £3 billion on hotels, and the overall cost of the asylum system was estimated to be around £3 billion a year and rising. So I do see why normally moderate people join in the hate.
Hitler rose to power by directing hate towards the Jews. So trans people and illegal immigrants are the "new Jews" I wonder if they will want trans people wear a symbol of some sort?
There is a strange thing going on in the UK currently. People are putting the Union flag and the English, cross of St George everywhere. This is a reaction to some very left wing councils taking down these flags, but allowing Palestinian flags to be flown.
Not a good time to be trans in the UK or the USA. I am lucky I only cross over for around 10 days a year. I wish it could be more, but I fear for what you ladies will have to put up with when I hear the venom spewing from the TV/Radio TERFs. DNA testing or ID cards when using toilets will be necessary if they have their way.
Am I being too pessimistic?
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New World
Life is for the brave, I transitioned many decades ago, and at that time we went back into the closet to live are lives as regular women, never to proclaim our true birth identity. It was safe, but did nothing to change our culture, or make life better for our children. But this new generation would not live in the background, or hide in the closet, they spoke with loud voices, proclaiming that they are here and deal with it. They are brave, and face the fall out from the worlds ire. This has to be done, and now, for if we as a part of the worlds population don't demand our place then we will be eliminated. There is so much more to say, but it all comes down to the old axiom, we are mad as hell and we are not going to take it any more, stop blaming us for your problems! Love you all. Emily
I think the activists
are part of the problem. I live in stealth, have done for four decades and don't intend changing my lifestyle for anyone. I had a paper declaring I was female, that was granted by act of parliament by an elected government, I don't see why a bunch of cretins, who aren't elected should be allowed to rule against, to fulfil the whimsy of a bunch of TERF fanatics funded by an idiot writer. We are too small to have political clout, and they majority don't listen to reason or logic because they are all stupid, obeying wrongful emotions and believing the spoutings of populist politicians and assorted snake oil sellers.
Angharad