Notices by Ellis C (elliscrawford@mastodon.scot)

Regarding some fishing by the UK media for people to share experiences about (DIY) HRT that has been making the rounds, I'm repeating something I posted on Bluesky.

Do not engage with Susanna Rustin on any topic, especially those related to being trans or trans healthcare.

The material she's written in The Guardian, the paper most at the vanguard of stirring anti-trans sentiment in the centre left, is not friendly, fair or objective regarding us.

@elizabethveldon @YorksBylines and that isn't even just on Twitter, it's everywhere!

Then again, it's clearly better journalism to ignore all of the blatant transphobia, gender critical "leaders" calling for our numbers to be reduced, all of the slurs, all of the personal images shared without consent, the surgical images designed to shock, the obvious lies from detransitioners and instead find those low follower, false-flag, pretend trans accounts being mean.

@YorksBylines and here I thought Bylines would be a decent left-leaning news source that wouldn't fall into the casual and lazy transphobia for clicks that the rest of the media did.

Guess I was quite wrong on this.

@YorksBylines "If a woman asks questions about how trans rights should work in highly paid competitive international sport, it is better to debate the issue and work out solutions than it is to shout abuse."

This is an absolutely terrible straw argument and it makes it clear what the article is actually trying to do. No trans person suggests this, instead we advocate following the science and ensuring policies such as reducing T levels.

@YorksBylines my established rights, as small as they are as a non-binary person, aren't up for debate and trying to frame things as a question and argument that needs to be won again gives credence to transphobic positions that seek to remove established rights.

I honestly thought Bylines was better than this.

@YorksBylines and further, this falsely suggests that there hasn't been a solution for trans athletes. There has. The solution in fact worked so well, favouring cisgender women, that it wasn't even a matter for the past decades where there have been testosterone level monitoring of trans athletes (who have won very, very little).

This really illustrates the entire problematic framing of the article. It entirely ignores that many of the "problems" are settled and solved.

@YorksBylines I've been thinking about this more and it is absolutely awful.

We don't do this with other minorities, we don't cloud a white supremacist in the language of "a Caucasian" and then pivot to a false situation speaking of a black person who is painted into a false position of relative power. This is a carefully chosen framing, to make it seem like the average woman is the underdog who is being impacted by these discussions. She isn't.

@YorksBylines it also suggests that it is trans people who shout abuse. Hardly so. There aren't very many terfs and gender critical types over here on Mastodon - because they are happily having their accounts reinstated on Twitter where they are very vocally shouting abuse.

Why isn't the abuse from anti-trans bigots illustrated? It's hardly like it is difficult to find.