it's not meant to be pretty

I feel like simply calling JK Rowling a transphobe isn't strong enough anymore. Like. This is not your grandpa calling you by your deadname at a restaurant kind of transphobic. This is her wanting to eradicate all trans people (with an extra special hatred towards trans women specifically). This is her trying just that by personally funding transphobic hate groups with millions to push around laws in the UK. It is not hyperbolic to call her a dangerous, genocidal maniac.

On this day, 16 July 1993, British right-wing tabloid the Daily Mail published an article titled "Abortion hope after 'gay genes' findings" saying that "definite evidence of a genetic link to homosexuality" had been found so "it could soon be possible to predict whether a baby will be gay and give the mother the option of an abortion." It also predicted that the people likely to be upset about prospect were "radical gay… groups". In 2020 the Mail was the most popular newspaper in the UK. It previously supported fascist politicians like Adolf Hitler in Germany, Benito Mussolini in Italy and Oswald Mosley in Britain. Today it continues to direct hate against groups like transgender people, Muslims, disabled people and others, and articles by its columnists like Melanie Phillips have been cited in manifestoes produced by neo-Nazi terrorists like Anders Breivik. Learn more about homophobia in Britain around that time period in our podcast episodes 27-29 about LGBT+ people during the miners' strike: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/06/10/e23-25-lesbians-gays-support-the-miners/

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there’s no specific reason i enjoy my favourite themes in media

please watch the round planet on netflix it’s exactly like that