Muck

Sally Hines chastises the BBC for not pampering trans people enough.

It’s embarrassing how seriously the BBC takes trans ideology, that’s what’s embarrassing.

I read the Open Democracy piece the other day and was underwhelmed but if Sally Hines thinks it’s timely n relevant who am I to continue to ignore it. It’s by Natacha Kennedy.

The recent backlash against Graham Norton’s entirely reasonable suggestion that the media talks to more trans people was more revealing than people think.

The media talks to more trans people than what? I think she meant “suggestion that the media should talk to more trans people” but is a bad writer. At any rate, seriously? The media don’t pay slavish enough attention to trans people already? The media never shut up about trans people, which is somewhat annoying to women given how easy they’ve always found it to ignore women.

He came dangerously close to exposing organised transphobia’s core campaign strategy, something they don’t want people talking about. In collaboration with mainstream media, its main strategy has been to liberally platform anti-trans narratives, hermetically exclude trans perspectives, and at the same time accuse trans people of ‘silencing’ transphobes.

Notice that “transphobia” has narratives while trans people have perspectives. Nudge nudge. To put it another way “transphobia” tells lies while trans people have wise reasonable thoughts. Also “transphobes” are not at all silenced, including by this habit of casually throwing buckets of mud at them on all occasions.

For example, a transphobic group holds a rally somewhere – maybe a couple of dozen transphobes in a draughty church hall. There’s a protest outside. A journalist, with confected faux-indignation, then claims trans people are ‘silencing’ them.

How dare they, those sneaky bitches. How dare they hold a rally or meet up in a building. Obviously they don’t do it for the reasons normal people hold rallies or meet up, they do it for obscure but sinister reasons of their own. “There’s a protest outside” – kind of the way there’s a rain storm or an earthquake. It’s not a matter of trans “activists” trying to stop women meeting and organizing, it’s just an impersonal event: A ProTest. Then this wholly innocent uncaused not at all political protest is reported by a journalist. Is that sinister or what?!

There is a name for this mechanism of power: ‘mirror propaganda’. Mirror propaganda means doing to your enemies what you are falsely accusing them of doing to you

But they are doing it. Nobody is falsely accusing them of doing it, because of the fact that they are doing it.

As, in fact, is Sally Hines. She’s treating us as illegitimate, and having no right to speak. She thinks an article that compares us to Nazis is good and worth promoting.

So the media creates the myth that trans people are silencing anti-trans activists, while the reality is that every major national media outlet in the UK, from The Guardian and The Times to the Mail and BBC, almost never includes any trans voices.

That’s the reality?

Not unless you change the meaning of “almost” and “never” and “includes.”

Kennedy goes on to compare “transphobes” and their dirty trick of being protested to the Rwandan genocide.

Kennedy is trans.

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