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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 00:55:43 JST goatsarah

   • Zoë O'Connell

   Five years ago, the East Of England Liberal Democrats posted a photo of two transgender women, me and @zoe, wearing “Bollocks to Brexit” T-Shirts.

   It is a sign of how far UK politics has fallen that that is utterly unthinkable now. Both the total erasure of transgender people’s existence and acceptance of Brexit are utter orthodoxy across the political spectrum there now.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 04:01:12 JST goatsarah

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     • Zoë O'Connell
     • Llwynog
     @llwynog @zoe it helped it along, but it was already building before then. The TERFs were well into their quest to capture the establishment by the time of the referendum, and making progress. Too many people made the fatal mistake of thinking that if they ignored them, they would go away.
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     Llwynog (llwynog@eupolicy.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 04:01:13 JST Llwynog

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     • Zoë O'Connell

     @goatsarah @zoe Do you reckon Brexit, at least in part, is to blame for the rise in British transphobia? Transphobia sadly exists in every country, but few countries are as trans-obsessed as the UK. Brits no longer have the EU to blame for all their problems, so they need another scapegoat. For that purpose, trans people are like low-hanging fruit.