No I have been routinely insulted and taunted. People here know that I raised a trans child. Maybe you think it courteous to bang on about trans women being freaky perverts with beards and testicles, but I can't think of anything more shitty quite frankly. These are not the kinds of interactions that mark out a civilised or sophisticated country. Then to deny transphobia is simply laughable.
I am upset today, and I admit it. Today is the third day of the trial into the killing of Brianna Ghey. I can not prevent myself from placing myself in the position of her mother and others who loved her. Such an awful thing. The messages being read out between the two defendants remind me of the attitudes here, and they disgust me.
What I don't need are contributions from Twatty McTwat face and others parroting the kinds of bigotry that were contained in those interactions.
I'm hurting, and some of you are enjoying it.
In my mind this campaign of hate led against innocent people by people with hate in their hearts is trickling down to children. People are being hurt. My niece had her house and car attacked - we know how this feels.
My niece is legally female and legally a woman. She is a trans woman, not a cis woman. This is the system that sophisticated civil societies work with in other countries with success. The UK has become TERF islands. People are being radicalised and this stinking government are at the heart of it. Never have I seen my country in such an awful mess. Everything turning to rat shoot. I'm appalled.