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Calling out anti-trans abuse
Trans people have long called out the abusive behaviour of a small group of transphobic abusers who have sought to bring their online hate into the real world. In the UK 2025 has seen the UK Supreme Court uphold an explicitly transphobic reading of the Equality Act 2010 based on transphobic fears of trans women, the Metropolitan Police decide not to investigate non-crime hate speech, and the national media continue to platform anti-trans voices without any trans people getting the opportunity to respond.
J K Rowling’s seed funding of much of this goes unremarked while she is still lauded for novels published 25 years ago. Graham Linnehan now has a seeming free pass to harass and demean trans people on social media, myself included, simply for existing as themselves in the world. Many other minor transphobes have felt emboldened by their behaviour, treating trans women as an existential threat to all women and trans men as victims of a medical industrial complex. Every time a trans person even mildly draws attention to the abusive behaviour they are dog piled, shamed, and treated as the next target for the mob.
This is 2025, not 1935, a time when trans rights ought to be a settled issue, yet trans people are constantly fighting a rearguard action the likes of which we have not had to do since the 1920s. I was asked why I was a trans activist, a TRA, and I responded…
