LogFAQs > #959862391

man I was already in a bad mood. I didn't need to read this shit.

I mean, it goes to show how fucked up shit is getting in the UK right now. The BBC posting a trans-critical article with no form of rebuttal, including a person who has outright called for the lynching of transgender people - generally, as well as a smattering of prominent famous trans people by name.

Of course, the BBC is government funded, meaning that the longer a conservative government is in power, the more likely this service is to align with their party line. You can see the same thing with the Australian ABC which is in a similar boat - the first of three Liberal Party PMs outright cut ABC funding after they overtly criticized his governing, setting the stage for today where you have Leigh Sales "holding the powerful to account" by pressing the opposition party with gotcha questions while pushing the conservative party line.

The UK is an extremely transphobic place at the moment, so the Tories have everything to gain by playing to that. Having a state-funded news outlet put out articles like this to further legitimize transphobic voices - again, including a woman calling for a mass-lynching of trans people - seems like a symptom of that.

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