A disgraceful few days
How the violent death of a teen was exploited by trans rights activists
I’ve been trying my best to hold my tongue for the last week while watching trans rights activists use the tragic death of a murdered teen to advance their political aims. It became such a phenomenon that I began collecting examples. After their deafening silence around such matters as the sterilisation and mutilation of gay and autistic children at the Tavistock and the placing of a double rapist among some of the most vulnerable women in society, you could almost hear the relief from commentators like Owen Jones and Laurie Penny as they got to use the death of a child to score points against their usual target: left wing feminist women and their allies.
Mass die-in outside the Department for Education at the vigil for murdered trans teenager #BriannaGhey. 'They have created a mythology around us that makes us a target. How many of our corpses will it take for you to care?'
This is horrific. Brianna’s family have lost their daughter which is unimaginably excruciating & it’s another tragedy for the trans community.
The transphobic media, MPs, & people like @ThePosieParker & @jk_rowling, you have blood on your hands! Is this what you wanted? 🧵1/6
It's shit retweeting shit, between them, 1.4M followers, using the murder of a child to score political points and disguise their blatant misogyny.
I always thought they were low, but there is no depth they will not go to.
For context, @moira_robin has just insinuated that I’ve personally contributed to the murder of a child because of my academic work on equality law. This is a barrister.
Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z
Every paper in Britain including the @guardian and @BBCNews is reporting there is no evidence it was a hate crime and Caraballo sends tweet after tweet one with over a million views saying it was.
This “Harvard disinformation expert” is the biggest liar on Twitter. It’s nuts.
Sorry beth/ Jack douglas. You don't get to take the high ground on knife crime when you post images like this. "Heard y'all hate knives" . No jack, just knife crime.
#WomenWontWeesht @WingsScotland @StandingforXX @RealWorlding @Glinner ,@ALLIANCELGB @Gurtyranaway
So today was interesting.
I posted a thread saying my thoughts & prayers were with Brianna Ghey's family & friends, but out of respect (& following Police advice) I wouldn't speculate about the manner of her senseless death.
These are some of the replies...
Please add examples in comments and I will update.
UPDATE:
The death of a child or teenager is always too horrific and heartbreaking to understand, especially when they died in violent circumstances. Tragically, 51 teenagers died as a result of knife crime in England and Wales in the last 12 months. A terrifying statistic. But those mentioned above don't seem to have expressed feelings for any of the other knife victims.
https://benkinsella.org.uk/knife-crime-statistics/?fbclid=IwAR0IQWyJ4SlkfXJVweLPIpyuXw7M0-cTihMbh_HwIR_-7LCgB8BpnLvYjBo
Dennis Kavanagh was saying that this sort of speculation about motive, before the polis has even said anything about it, could fuck up the case and trial. It's wildly irresponsible of these ghouls.
Also I'm Scottish, I know too well how common and fucking awful knife crime is among kids. If anything it's a testament to how safe trans-identifying kids are as a demographic that this was the only time one has been stabbed. There's been any number of working class kids stabbed for all sorts of stupid petty reasons in recent years, and not enough is being done about the social and political problems that influence it. Kids don't feel protected by adults in their lives or by the polis, so they feel they have to arm themselves, and then they attack each other and so more of them want better defences and so it escalates and spreads. That goes for kids across the board, no matter how they identify themselves.