The point of my post is to show the uptick of transphobic articles in mainstream print media...despite the fact that nothing on the ground has changed. Here, or in Ireland.
What's changed is growing awareness of the fact that there is, at times, a clash of rights, and the willingness of the UK media to report on it.
Noone knew that some police forces were recording males crimes under the female statistics. Noone knew of the massive rise in referrals to the Tavistock being mostly girls.
Add to that the No Debate stance of groups like Stonewall and these things went unreported. You can dismiss it as 'nothing's changed'. I'd say a lot changed, we just weren't being told.
As to people being captured, what we actually have is institutional capture by campaign groups. Stonewall training companies and government departments with their own view of the law, a trans group drafting the Scottish Prison Service policy, the IOC changing the regulations on transwoman inclusion, affecting thousands of women, based only on one study of 8 athletes.
And when the effects of all this came to light, a lot of people weren't happy. You're not one of them obviously, but a lot of us aren't happy that Mermaids were able to refer kids directly to the Tavistock, as came to light last week.
And yes, it is a problem in countries with self ID, it's just not as widely reported.
First in the Womens bike race, would have been 105th in the Mens (Chile)
View: https://twitter.com/i_heart__bikes/status/1664013863833210880
Edit: It's not transphobic to report these sports stories. Nor is it transphobic of the Times and others to report things like the Mermaids story or the Isla Bryson story. It's a shame other countries have a press so afraid to do their job and investigate.
