It's never just one minority.
In the space of a few years, the UK has moved from a broadly inclusive status quo to being the most aggressively anti-trans developed democracy in the world. Though pushed by a minuscule number of people, the assault has been full-spectrum—government, courts, press, the health system, radicalised internet groups, and violent vigilantes—all working simultaneously towards the same goal.
Precisely because this has taken place across multiple domains (and often in quite convoluted ways, with poor press coverage) the speed and scale of our transformation is often lost on people. But when considered together, it’s staggering.
This is utterly horrifying.
It is the pattern of fascism. Pick a disadvantaged outgroup and persecute them, propagandise them as dangerous and violent and simultaneously weak and degenerate (classic mutually exclusive propositions that hallmark nefarious propaganda) and once you succeed move on to the next most vulnerable group as you tell the apparent favoured groups how you are protecting them, purifying their society... Of course eventually it becomes clear there is only one favoured group. Those wielding the power. And the leopards eat everyone's faces. It's the mass murders of Pol pots regime, the endless perfecting of society by murdering everyone out of favour.
The truth is bigotry is bigotry no matter how it is dressed up. Respect for each other is the foundation of healthy society. It is respect for each other we should be striving for. Not ways of denigrating, othering, persecuting.
When the proposition is human rights for all *except* - the proposition is no longer human rights. The proposition is 'its ok to abuse'. And that proposition I will never accept.
