The reality of being Trans and British
Disclaimer - This is philosophical and political in nature, no sexy stuff here I'm afraid.
I just had the urge to write briefly about what it is really like being transgender in the UK.
Short answer? It's rough.
Much has been made by the UK over the controversy of the Qatar World cup and the onelove armbands and whilst I personally disagree with the LGBT laws in that region, I find the arrogant lecturing of the UK to be disgusting; why?
Because being LGBT, especially Transgender in the UK is a gruelling experience. We face a constant barrage of hatred, from random members of the public, 'enlightened' politicians and most fervently, the media. From the obvious right wing media all the way to the hard left, British Transgender people are demonised as being unhinged, violent and disrespectful; almost to the point of being sub-human, a threat, especially to women.
All my life I have cared about women's rights, equal pay, equal opportunity and I always will. I also know I am a trans woman, not a woman, there is a difference and it must be respected. But this does not make me inferior nor superior and absolutely not a threat to them. It is a disgraceful argument which the British media use daily to stoke hatred toward the trans community.
Britain boasts haughtily of how inclusive and diverse it is and yet there are no British Trans:
Politicians
Television presenters
Executives
Sports stars
Artists
Newspaper writers
Literary or television characters
Just to name a few. We have no major voice, nobody given the fair platform to give our own side of the story. The transphobic elite of Britain have all of the control and yet we, the ones with no nationwide platform, are the threat?
In Britain, transgender people are alarmingly at risk of domestic abuse, random hate crime attacks and recieve far less pay then cis people for doing the same job; and yet we are labelled as threats to society.
For the record I don't agree with the wider transgender community on all issues and this is another huge problem we face in Britain. What little voice we do have is drowned out by those who shout loudest, who inevitably are the most hard line of the trans community.
Transgender people like me with more nuanced views never get heard; it's in equal measure infuriating and heartbreaking. I fully appreciate every trans person who does stand up for our rights and even more so, I truely love every cisgender person who defends us from wrathful bigotry too.
You will never know how much I respect and admire you for your selfless courage.
I have always believed there are cis men, cis women and transgender people, three separate expressions of self identity. Each one being separate from the other and deserving of respect and understanding...and that's the problem...
In Britain, the pompous imperial relic of a nation, a nation capable of such wonderful and atrocious acts, which I want to love but cannot fully, us transgender people, all unique, all fallable, are not given respect and are purposely misunderstood by a spiteful antiquated elite. We are not people in Britian; we are a problem.
Thank you for reading my musings, what do you think? Do you agree with me or do you think I'm wrong on this one? I'd love to hear your opinions of the matter.
Anyways, don't worry, it's back to showing off my curvy body in kinky ways! Have a lovely day.
I just had the urge to write briefly about what it is really like being transgender in the UK.
Short answer? It's rough.
Much has been made by the UK over the controversy of the Qatar World cup and the onelove armbands and whilst I personally disagree with the LGBT laws in that region, I find the arrogant lecturing of the UK to be disgusting; why?
Because being LGBT, especially Transgender in the UK is a gruelling experience. We face a constant barrage of hatred, from random members of the public, 'enlightened' politicians and most fervently, the media. From the obvious right wing media all the way to the hard left, British Transgender people are demonised as being unhinged, violent and disrespectful; almost to the point of being sub-human, a threat, especially to women.
All my life I have cared about women's rights, equal pay, equal opportunity and I always will. I also know I am a trans woman, not a woman, there is a difference and it must be respected. But this does not make me inferior nor superior and absolutely not a threat to them. It is a disgraceful argument which the British media use daily to stoke hatred toward the trans community.
Britain boasts haughtily of how inclusive and diverse it is and yet there are no British Trans:
Politicians
Television presenters
Executives
Sports stars
Artists
Newspaper writers
Literary or television characters
Just to name a few. We have no major voice, nobody given the fair platform to give our own side of the story. The transphobic elite of Britain have all of the control and yet we, the ones with no nationwide platform, are the threat?
In Britain, transgender people are alarmingly at risk of domestic abuse, random hate crime attacks and recieve far less pay then cis people for doing the same job; and yet we are labelled as threats to society.
For the record I don't agree with the wider transgender community on all issues and this is another huge problem we face in Britain. What little voice we do have is drowned out by those who shout loudest, who inevitably are the most hard line of the trans community.
Transgender people like me with more nuanced views never get heard; it's in equal measure infuriating and heartbreaking. I fully appreciate every trans person who does stand up for our rights and even more so, I truely love every cisgender person who defends us from wrathful bigotry too.
You will never know how much I respect and admire you for your selfless courage.
I have always believed there are cis men, cis women and transgender people, three separate expressions of self identity. Each one being separate from the other and deserving of respect and understanding...and that's the problem...
In Britain, the pompous imperial relic of a nation, a nation capable of such wonderful and atrocious acts, which I want to love but cannot fully, us transgender people, all unique, all fallable, are not given respect and are purposely misunderstood by a spiteful antiquated elite. We are not people in Britian; we are a problem.
Thank you for reading my musings, what do you think? Do you agree with me or do you think I'm wrong on this one? I'd love to hear your opinions of the matter.
Anyways, don't worry, it's back to showing off my curvy body in kinky ways! Have a lovely day.
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