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The BBC Is Being Gripped By a Wave of Transphobia

TERFism has enveloped the highest levels of the British media—and we can't be complacent about it.

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Jack Mirkinson
Nov 15, 2021
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Alexander Svensonn

We are living in a time of incessant elite moral panic, where marginalized people are being used to fuel conservative hysteria and bury any kind of politics that imagines a better and more equal society. For a look at how bad things can get, we have only to turn our attention across the pond to TERF Island—aka the United Kingdom, where…

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