Kira Herdman

So the Council of Europe has produced a report that is titled " Combating rising hate against LGBTI people in Europe " and is scathing of the transphobia in the UK, especially by the media. This is what the report has to say about it :- 1.  Hate messages targeting LGBTI people are also disseminated through the media, internet, video games and music. Hate speech is reported to have risen on social media in Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Malta, Montenegro, the Russian Federation and Turkey in the past year, and in the general media in Slovenia and Ukraine. It remains an ongoing issue in Georgia, Ireland, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Portugal, Romania, the Slovak Republic, Spain and the United Kingdom. 2.  Anti-LGBTI hate speech is often closely entwined with broader anti-gender discourse, which has spread throughout Europe and the world in recent years.Note On our continent, it has been highly visible in opposition to efforts to achieve greater recognition of

Wes Streeting, the Labour shadow health secretary in the UK, recently did an interview on the BBC where he mentioned the trans community and that we need to listen to both sides. Me as the real me. He is a member of the LGBT+ community as he is in a gay relationship. So when he speaks on these matters I listen to him in 2 perspectives, as a trans woman and also as a fellow member of the LGBT+ community. There has been out-range on twitter from both sides, the trans community and GC's. We trans people are people, who have the right to exist as we are. It is not our fault that we was born in the wrong body. GC's need to understand that BUT we as trans people also need to understand the fears that cis woman can have and educate people who are fearful of who we are, that we are no danger to them. While there are extreme views from both sides like there are in any discussion, I hope the middle ground win out. Also there will be bad apples on both sides also, BUT they are no where ne

Well since this is my first post of 2022, Happy New Year ! ! As you know, I have been quiet for about a month. This is not because there has not been an news to write about, it's because of this time of year. My PTSD always plays up around this time and last year was no exception. For a couple of weeks last month, I couldn't go further than the corner shop and for a week of that I couldn't even go out of the house without shaking. I don't like to show it to other people but I even had to tell my cousin not to come down for our weekly movie watching session. I just did not want to be near anyone or talk to anyone either. To top all this off, I think I spaced out a few times as well, though of course I don't remember any of it. It was just say 12 noon then happened to be 5pm the next minute for me. This doesn't happen to be a lot but when it does it is very unsettling. For me the most serious things I suffer from is anxiety and hyper awareness, which tbh gets very