• hector@sh.itjust.works
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    I’m scrolling the All feed, so can anyone explain to me? What are DIYs, why do you need to not talk to journalists ?

    • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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      This refers to DIY hormone replacement therapy. Purchasing hormones directly from suppliers when health care systems are not able or willing to provide them.

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        I know this is a thing but I desperately want the trans community to spread a similar message about something made up, like:

        DO NOT TALK TO FOX NEWS ABOUT PROJECT MANATEE. I REPEAT, FOX AND THEIR AFFILIATES ARE LOOKING TO DISPARAGE PROJECT MANATEE, DO NOT GIVE THEM ANYTHING.

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      I’m not entirely up to speed on the situation, but the UK recently reduced access to HRT. People are trying to make their own by sourcing hormones directly, and the guardian is supposedly contacting people to try and write a story about it.

      The allegation is that the Guardian is writing an anti-trans hit piece, and you should not talk to them because they may out you or use your words to make trans people look bad.

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        And the reasoning for the allegations are that the guardian is one of the major sources of media contributions to British transphobia

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          Yeah, in British politics transphobia is very much a bipartisan position shared with only rare exceptions by the right, the left, the far right and the far left. Shit sucks fr.

          The BBC very notably has a very strong transphobic bias. For instance, on the day of Israel bombing the Iranian embassy I remember BBC radio 4 news spent more time talking about JK Rowling’s tweets about the new Scottish hate speech laws that banned discrimination against trans people and then interviewed a prominent Scottish TERF to give a puffpiece interview about her TERF org and how great JK Rowling is (notably they didn’t interview a single trans person) than they spent on the bombing of the embassy. Also a few days ago they gave a great deal of air time to the Cass Report which was basically made as a hitpiece trying to push for banning anyone under the age of 25 from transitioning (they then completely ignored all the criticism it received for it’s awful scientific method).