2025 is yearslop

It's also worth mentioning this is from 2023 with numbers from 2021 that shows a trend towards more negativity. I dread to think what a 2025/6 version of this would look like after the year we've had. The press might have been working on this for a decade+ but the last year has been the worst of it.

As a community, we need to be as vocal as we can to find the people who are negatively impacted by this perception but cis people need to do the vast majority of the work to make it clear that there aren't as many transphobes as we think there are. So many cis people just don't talk about it.

The transphobic press does not care if there's actually not that many people who think negativly about trans people, what matters more is that trans people are afraid of a much larger perception. That perception is what keeps trans people quiet, in the closet, afraid to start HRT etc.

The metrics pointing to general ambivilance, leaning more towards trans acceptance, are good but the damage that's been done is that the perception is much more negative than the reality. The reality of negative views is 25% but the perception of negative views is 51%. That's still worrying.

I am down horrendous but I promise it has nothing to do with the post in the screenshot, that's a coincidence

Are you bullying me :(

I hate Nichole. She has no one to blame but herself. It's one thing to destroy your own life, to self sabotage, but it's another thing to disrupt the lives of everyone else around her because she can't do so much as communicate her feelings.

But I could fix her.

I don't think I've ever had a physical response to reading something in a book followed immediately by an exact description of the same physical response in the next sentence.

Except, and this is something I didn't realise until he mentioned it because I missed it on my first read too, they did it to Ollie when he and Raph were in the cells

I'll be fair to him, the ethics part he actually got most hung up on was forced feeding. He didn't actually care about the forcefem part, seemed enthusiastic about it even.

The worst part is that when I said I already owned it she said a) "yeah, I thought you might have" so clearly she clocked me hard and b) she wants to read it now

She's looking to buy me books for Christmas so occasionally she'll send me the name of a book to see if I already own it. But rather than a message that started with "have you read..." I just woke up to "Welcome to Dorley Hall"

Very few people stand up with us 🙁