Today is the 16th of April 2025. The UK Government has just ruled that a woman is definted by biological sex, whatever the fuck that means. If the rise of fascism all over the globe hasn’t been worrying you more and more with each growing day, I think you need to get your head out of your ass and/or maybe understand how incredibly privileged you are. 

I am blindsided by just how much hatred there is for trans people, in this country, around the globe, in general. Trans people make up less than 1% of the global population. Pretty sure those figures are correct, maybe higher but either way it’s a ridiculously small amount no matter how you look at it and it puts into perspective how truly insane everything is. This isn’t about protecting women, it’s about pushing down a very very small percentage of the population because cowardice and hatred have the loudest voices. Because what happens here is that masculine women, or women with higher levels of testosterone, or women who don’t meet the standards of what these clowns think a woman should be, are going to be affected to. If they truly cared about women, this wouldn’t have happened. 

I think putting into account my own relationship with gender is important, and why I feel so strongly about this. Not that I wouldn’t otherwise (and not that you shouldn’t feel strongly about this if you’re cis) but I’ve always had a strange relationship with gender. Never feeling ‘man’ enough to hang with the boys and never feminine enough to go to the girls. Learning about gender and how people conform to it really opened my eyes as a teenager. Learning there were options outside of being a man or a woman and that I could just simply be myself. I still don’t see myself as either, I exist simply as me, without the need to put myself anywhere on the binary scale. I understand the enormity of the privilege I posses from appearing more masculine in my day to day life, but I understand even more that many don’t have that privilege. This decision, this horrible choice, is going to put so many women at risk. So many trans women, so many cis women, so many people exisiting outside the gender binary who just want to fucking exist. Whilst I myself don’t place myself anywhere, I still enjoy presenting more feminine from time to time and I’ve been so lucky to exist in spaces and places where I have the luxury of gender neutral restrooms or simply just living in more progressive areas. I can wear a skirt outside and still feel scared to shit but know for the most part, I’ll be ok. It makes me so angry that there are so many people who don’t have that, and are going to lose so much more because of today. What a fucking joke.

I’m losing so much coherency here but I don’t care. I want to talk about that sorry joke of a person JK Rowling and how her hatred has helped enable this. I personally don’t care what your relationship to Harry Potter is but I personally can’t stand it on the basis that she created it alone. Save for the horrible racism and stereotyping, I just didn’t grow up with it and I’m actually thankful I didn’t now. Your fantasy series can not be so worth it that this woman keeps getting funded. Fuck your Hogwarts Legacy or that wretched HBO remake series. To all the people in the film and TV industry who I work with- please please please avoid working on that show like the plague. I know most of you have morals. Please. I know it’s a good job from a length and money and scale point of view but is it worth the lives of your trans friends and family? Put your money where your mouth is and turn down dailies. Turn down the possibility of hopping on board it. If you care about us, you’ll avoid it like the plauge. I work on set with so many wonderful people, but I notice how little so many of you care about your trans co-workers. Constant misgendering, the inability to correct others who misgender right in front of you. You don’t hire people who aren’t cis, white and male and I notice this. We all notice this. You talk so much about diversity, but honestly, hiring just one woman on the team isn’t enough. You need to do better. Whatever.

I don’t know. I’m angry. I’m sad. I’m feeling defeated. I know how important it is to stick together, and I’ll continue to be in the corner of all those I love but right now, I’m feeling like shit. I know we have to keep fighting but goddamn it, does a blow like this hurt.