Backlash of the gender binary: The (r)evolution is now
Gender theory has evolved rapidly over the past decade. It's time for the media to catch up.
From time to time, everyone needs a haircut. Pretty simple, right? You walk into a hairdresser’s or barber’s, sit down, and let a professional work their magic.
Yet for many, it’s not simple. It’s among several day-to-day difficulties faced by non-binary people, so when non-binary poet Gray Crosbie performed a spoken word poem on the subject for BBC Scotland’s The Social, queer people breathed a sigh of relief. Cue a subsequent sharp intake of breath, because what should follow but the usual backlash, from the usual source...
Piers Morgan has led the backlash to evolving gender theory for several years. LBC’s Nick Ferrari and sitcom writer Graham Linehan are other prominent critics of gender ideology’s diversification.
Jane Fae, campaigner for Trans Media Watch, is scathing of the current state of things: “It is absolutely abysmal. I’d settle for just accurate reporting, but we’re not even getting that.”
Yet for Jake Edwards, communications assistant at Mermaids UK, things could be looking up: “There are people all over the country actively creative positive change. I don’t think it’s long until this impact reaches the front pages.”
The reality is we’ve been here, we’ve been queer, and we’re not about to stop because some out-of-touch blowhards wish we would. For both our benefit and theirs, it’s time the media got the message.
PADDY MULHOLLAND
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London Pride 2016. Photo: Katy Blackwood
