As an American, I know how enamored many far right Christian men are with "righteous" violence, and they are really upset with the recent attack on Christian children.
tbh, while i don't think violence is ever the answer except in self-defence, and then only as much as is needed, i do wonder if a load of far right Christian men jumped in and pounded a few sparkly-bedressed blue-haired beardy-types in lipstic - it might provoke some reaction that may drive things in a different direction? If it is men protesting these TRAs rather than a few grey-haired-lezzers or a small blonde woman getting tomato soup dumped on her for being a literal-nazi, it might make different headlines?
especially if aforementioned beardy-lipstick-bloke fought back?
I don't actually want that to happen.
What i want to scream and shout at the TRAs talking about deaths and genocide is "how the fuck do you know?" because if police etc are only recording gender, a trans woman being killed - for whatever reason - is recorded as a woman being dead, surely? if TWAW? But if dozens of trans women are being killed, then we need to know - by recording sex and then gender preference?
I don't want anyone being killed, and in the same way I'd want to know if a particular demographic was being murdered at, say, the rate of 2 a week, I'd want police resources targeted at stopping it.
I also want reporting to be more accurate. The lot in bloomsbury the other day were constantly described as a counter-protest. But they weren't. They WERE the protest. What they were protesting about was a load of older women having a meeting without men.
I'm constantly veering between rage and confusion.