The Media War On Transgender People
It’s not just in America. The UK media has been pushing anti-trans propaganda for years.
If you were a transgender identifying person who woke to the startling headline from the Economist which questioned, quite matter-of-factly, whether Transgender people should be sterilized before be recognized as their preferred gender, you were shocked, but not surprised.
Such a grotesque headline that postures itself to seemingly attempt to intellectually debate whether or not Trans people deserve to experience having and raising biological children, develop loving families, you know, the same rights that cis people have always had in civilized countries found activists quick to condemn the publication for such blatant, unfettered transphobia. The Economist apologized, but the reality is, this wasn’t their first missile aimed directly at the Transgender community and likely won’t be their last. They had previously discussed the sterilization of trans people back in 2017. The publication The Daily Dot has revealed that the Economist editor, Helen Joyce, has her own grim history of transphobia.
Sadly, the media’s war on transgender people has amped up over the past two years; In the US since the election of Trump, and in the UK since the reforming of the Gender Recognition Act that allowed trans people to self identify without the burden of the restrictive, bureaucratic red tape that had to be navigated through in order for their gender identity to be legally acknowledged. The reform fetched great opposition from TERFs (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists) and conservatives alike who took a page directly from the US political playbook on investing inordinate amounts of energy (and Headlines) to vilify transgender women, create a series of narratives that sexualize the trans experience in bizarre fashion- pontificate on our activities in spaces such as bathroom settings, public gyms and what we do there that they apparently don’t.
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