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The Guardian gets a dedicated Europe Edition
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Hopefully the transphobia can be quarantined to the cursed UK edition
I'm not aware of the situation - are the journalists transphobic or the commenters?
The journalists. The Guardian has been shockingly bad when it comes to transphobia, to the point where the writers for the US edition has publicly criticized the UK edition.
That's weird. Is it a conscious, coordinated decision or is it a case of several writers being transphobic?
It seems to be both conscious and coordinate and does fit into the overall climate of the UK in general being quite openly transphobic (yes, that's a generalization, I know).
Just look at some of the crap that J. K. Rowling sprouts which doesn't seem to reduce her darling status.
There is an "official" editorial: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/17/the-guardian-view-on-the-gender-recognition-act-where-rights-collide
What the fuck, trans people are 4x as likely to be victims of violent crimes and twice as likely to be victims of sexual violence than cis people, that’s a terrible fucking law