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Is this trans panic thing happening anywhere else in the world or is it exclusively the US doing a stupid?
Canadian here. It's very much here too, in Ontario our idiot Premier just ranted about it
You can refer to him as Doug Ford since everyone probably remembers his crack smoking brother and the former mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. Doug is about as great at running a province as he was at selling crack lol.
~~Don't~~ worry, it's a thing everywere even in countries that should know better. Both world wars have been started from people from my country and it seems like we haven't learned anything. The fashist party is gaining more votes and holding anti- trans/drag ralleys because there was a transwomen reading a book to primary school kids. It has gotten so much out of hand, that the police (a lot of officers tend to be fashists) blocks certain journalists from reporting at those ralleys. Even the muslims now vote for fashism, because they hate women and members of the lgbtq comunity so much, that they don't realise their vote might get them kicked out of the country.
That’s because our conservatives and our far-right copy anything the Republican Party does in the US. And just like in the US, people here just gobble up that bullshit.
Happening a little bit in Aus too. Super weird. Trans and cross dressing and every flavour of divergence from the norm has been generally pretty accepted in most metropolitan areas my whole life.
Suddenly everyone wants to get their pronouns in a twist and it's this big deal.
We can't seem to just let the USA have their own culture war, we import all of it. Sky News has a lot to answer for.
Drag has been a cultural icon in Australia for generations. Priscilla was a hit movie nearly 30 years prior to this bullshit drag/trans-phobia. Too many people drinking the Sky News American-adopted coolaid and Facebook fearmongering. It doesn’t help that shitheap news services like Channel 7 give the transphobes a platform under the false guise of “neutrality”
Canada is getting into it now.
Oh no, it contagious
Nah it's all over the place, here in the UK it's perhaps less prevalent than the US but it's not a friendly time for trans people. I hear similar news from the rest of Europe. India, too, which given its Hindu majority has often been a bit more progressive (in some ways) on trans politics now has an anti trans leader.
I am a trans from the US so this is a US biased perspective but I would rank the UK as better than Florida but worse than California in regards to trans rights. It's hard to compare single countries to the "entire" US when each state varies so much. Like I am personally considering leaving the US because of this stuff but its doubtful I would choose the UK when getting access to trans care there is so gatekept.
Each state varies only so much in what the federal government and federal courts allow. California could turn into Florida the second Republicans take control over the three branches of government if/when they win in 2024. Unless something absolutely bonkers happens, this isn't on the table for the UK. The Tories are gone by late 2024/early 2025 and the anti-trans movement doesn't have nearly as much steam as it does in the US. Trans people (along with everyone with ovaries and regular gay/lesbians) in the US should be gearing up for some very tough, very scary times no matter where they are, even those in California. The UK may be worse than California right now for trans people, but the future could be brighter because Labour should be much more supportive of trans people, and that should last five years which will probably be enough time for the anti-trans movement to dwindle considerably. The US has already seen how much damage 4 years of Trump and only 2 years of a Republican controlled federal government can do to the US, and that was before the anti-trans movement kicked it into high gear. I think there's a case where the UK looks even better than California from a trans perspective, especially in the near future. But all this only matters to trans people who can afford to pack up their lives and seek out the most accepting places whenever a new extreme reactionary act gets into power.
That's fair, what I see in the UK of US news is very monolithic.
From what I’ve seen it is happening elsewhere as well, Canada and a few euro nations are having a small amount of complaining about it but it’s mostly US