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secondly, it's important to remember that brianna ghey will not be burried as who she was to so herself and loved ones due to current gender recognition certificate laws. a final fuck you we deliver to trans people who are taken from us and one ALL trans people worry about.
I've been torn between on the one hand pointing out that GRA reforms would've done nothing more than allow Brianna some respect in death, and being just utterly disgusted and furious at all the thinkpiecers and broadsheet journos and 'reasonable concern'ers who created a world in which this was not only possible, but inevitable.
I'm a 46 year old straight cis dude. I don't have any family members who are trans, just some pals, and not close ones at that, and I am losing my mind with fury. I cannot imagine what it must be like to be trans in the UK right now. It is a fucking bin fire.
I hope you're as OK as you can be.
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read about brianna this morning after i'd spent the weekend with trans friends discussing various way our lives were policed and safety threatened, dodging my own transphobic harrassment and witnessing it happen to others. someone on twitter had shared a playlist Brianna had made and the music was the exact same hyper pop electronica i'd listen to when my head was a mess; i was upset that the wolrd wants us dead, it was so visceral i just started bawling, reading further of the bullying she faced and the way it was dismissed by various people in charge of safeguarding her. my heart goes out to her family and friends at this time.
now we can't know the motivations of why this happened at this time, speculation is useless, but we can know a few things are for sure
the reporting on this, a murdered trans girl is dehuminising and vile, especially the language used by papers so often willing to dehumanise tran people day to day. this is not a mistake or due to a single actor or editorial decision, this is a feature of the system which does not recognise trans existance.
secondly, it's important to remember that brianna ghey will not be burried as who she was to so herself and loved ones due to current gender recognition certificate laws. a final fuck you we deliver to trans people who are taken from us and one ALL trans people worry about.
we can improve and set both these things right very easily, but so often the reality and impacts of both these items which dehuminise the little girl at the centre of this tradjedy are presented by our media and politicians as sensationalist and unreasonable. let's see these things for what they really are, and the impact they have in the case at hand, the right for people to be treated respectfuly.