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Paratroopa1 posted...

Look all I'm saying is that The Guardian and the BBC are more transphobic than like, I don't know, the New York Times or CNN (even though I hate both of them)

Yes, I was being flippant in the original post but the media environment angle is what I was getting at.

I promise I do not think the US needed any help being violently transphobic. Inexplicably, the UK helped anyways! The way TERF rhetoric circulated specifically in "liberal" British news media sort of acted as an incubator and platform for the ideology, and the mainstreaming of that in US "liberal" media is a much more recent trend. That's mixing with our developing American fascism which we will then export back. I mean, they were already pretty bad but still.

I don't think either country "started" it or whatever, both of them have a long history of hating queer people so it's just the pointing Spiderman meme. I was talking about this very specific set of circumstances.