Arsonist TERF thinks trans women are immoral & should be beaten
As readers might be aware, the UK media is engulfed in a new and ongoing round of media-created trans panic of the same type that lead to the death of Lucy Medows in 2013. Already, media hysteria coupled with the concern trolling homunculus that is all things “gender critical,” has pushed a trans teen caught in the UK media’s crosshairs to desperation. Riding the wake of this media madness is Linda Bellos, a sex essentialist “radical feminist” who took to an eager national media platform to decry what she claimed to be “no-platforming” by a local student group who rescinded its speaking invitation to her after Bellos publicly mused over the ways she might physically beat a trans woman who disagreed with her. Bellos claimed that she would take her “glasses off and thump ’em!” She then went on to enthusiastically endorse violence against trans women: I’m quite prepared to
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Community significance
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- 1Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication100%
- 2Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict92%
- 3Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict60%
- 4Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community37%
- 5Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life27%
- 6Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life17%
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- 1100%
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Rani Baker
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Kelley Winters
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Admin
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Marian
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