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innocuousEclair t1_jazxmm2 wrote

Reply to comment by InTheEndEntropyWins in Žižek Has Lost the Plot by elimial

Feel free to dig into the issue and I'm sure you'll agree. There's nothing pretend about the anti-trans bias in the British press.

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InTheEndEntropyWins t1_jazy2dp wrote

When they say stuff like the following, that sounds fairly unbiased and objective.

>The NHS gender identity service’s own data shows that 96 per cent of children

Also it's strange to treat all major press including far left media as having an anti-trans bias.

The words anti-trans and transphobic are just thrown around soo much that they have lost all meaning. So when you say that all British media are anti-trans, I have no idea if they actually are anti-trans or if they used some facts you don't like.

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innocuousEclair t1_jazysy8 wrote

When I say there's an anti-trans bias in the British press, I don't mean they're using "facts I don't like", I mean that the British press is well-known by the trans community for sensationalizing, fear-mongering, and spinning stories to paint trans people in a negative light.

See for yourself.

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EstablishmentRude493 t1_jb0xoax wrote

Is your argument that other journalistic outlets reported on the supposed anti-transness of the british press?

e/ for clarity, I do not mean to imply that there is NO anti-trans bias. But I want to get a concrete engagement on the subject as a evidence/clue, not a corporate created algorithm.

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innocuousEclair t1_jb0yd2o wrote

I am showing that it was bad enough that a media outlet's American branch felt it necessary to point out. I don't need any media company to report on anti-trans bias in the British press, I can read and see it for myself. If you can't see it after doing some reading for yourself, then you and I are not operating with a shared definition of what it means to have an anti-trans bias. There's nothing supposed about it. It's there in black and white.

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