The Right's Use Of "The One Good Gay" Narrative (featuring Andrew Doyle and 'Free Speech Nation')
The following piece was written before the news of Brianna Ghey's murder in Warrington . This event was an inevitability given the daily, never-ending, obsession of the media on the existence and validity of trans people in the UK - an important of the US Right's playbook of distraction. That's whether it's those on the Right who write many pieces every single day pushing this faux-panic to their audiences, like in print The Times, The Sun, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, and on TV/radio GB News and TalkTV, or those portrayed by those in the aforementioned outlets as 'on the left' like the BBC and The Guardian, who have gone along with this moral panic, to soothe the fears of their white, cis-hetero 'liberal' audience. The news of a trans girl being killed was met, unsurprisingly, either by erasure of her identity being in any way noteworthy, or like The Times did, deadname and degender her , or effectively ignoring it all together, as according t...