Here's a thread from Twitter shared with Sophia's permission in which she finally is able to talk about Graham using the police as HIS personal goon squad and getting Sophia arrested at home by EIGHT armed police officers, somewhat putting the standard Heathrow armed cops in perspective.

So fed up with this bullshit. And cis people, try and imagine for a moment what this constant egregious crap feels like for trans people. This is the kind of shite gay people had to put up with in the 80s when AIDS hysteria seemed to be pushing us backwards

I don't know the criminal standard specifically but Linehan did say *in court* that he was motivated by the victim's status as a trans person. If a clear statement of explicit prejudice isn't enough then you need a new standard.
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There is no other word for it? They just began an obsessive campaign of legal and political attack on our rights, which trans people - as a scattered and isolated group with limited political connections - have been unable to do much about.

A decade ago it looked like it was possible to hope for trans rights to get better in this country (from the "OK but a lot to be desired" that it was before). We were being treated with respect and dignity for the first time. This sent many parts of the British establishment insane.

Increasingly the state of trans rights in the UK is that things that have been settled aspects of these rights for more than two decades are being stripped away. The idea that "trans activists" are making novel demands is ludicrous.

Everytime a trans girl plays sports along her cis girl mates they go like: "Gigantic, huge manly man crashing through little, daint, girly-babies", even when she's about the same size as them. But when a 6.4, heavy-set adult man attacks a noticeably smaller teen, she suddenly is just an 'activist'…