Let The Rollercoastening Commence

Imagine your mother or your grandmother, is ill, too ill to take care of herself and is put into specialist care. She's extremely vulnerable, and needs to be protected from infections.

Behind the scenes, without you knowing, something has been happening.

The cleaner for your relative's room is a young trans man. He's great at his job, and takes the utmost care to ensure your relative is comfortable and safe.

His manager though, is transphobic, and doesn't want this cleaner in the workplace. She treats him badly, yes, but he sticks it out, and keeps working to keep your relative happy.

His manager takes it a step further.

His manager plants a bowl of moldy food in your relative's room, because he's meant to clean that room and he'd get in trouble for leaving that there. The mold could kill your relative just by being in the same room. His manager doesn't care, because his manager wants to make him lose his job.

His manager is caught, police are involved, he never receives any blame and helps the investigation.

Your relative, thankfully, survived. Her life was at risk though, directly because of the actions of a transphobe who didn't even think about the consequences, who didn't care if your relative died. It doesn't matter what you think of trans people, because this goes beyond just the trans cleaner. He wasn't directly hurt. It was your relative whose life was at risk.

His manager was investigated, and despite being proven to have done this, wasn't fired. His manager was given a warning, that if they did anything else, they would lose their job.

They tried to kill your relative, and were left only with a warning.

This sounds a little extreme, right? Who's plotting murder to get some random trans man out of a job?

Well, my partner's manager.

This all happened to him earlier this year.

A sick, elderly woman's life was endangered because my partner's manager was a transphobe.

Bigotry doesn't just hurt its targets. Anyone can be hurt by it.