Nor does it excuse the way the life history of the victim and her motivations for transitioning are being dissected upthread. "Was she actually a vulnerable person (to being murdered by a transphobe) because she was trans? Or did she transition... because she was a vulnerable person?" Please don't pull that that on a grieving mother.
You cant retrospectively go back in time and rewrite the Cass Review which raised massive questions about comorbidities across the board.
The ship has sailed on discussion of comorbidities. Sorry if that's inconvenient.
Thats a question that hangs over every kid who transitions regardless of whether they are murdered and remains forever for a mother. It is part of life generally in terms of whether you did the right thing for your child that exists without trans.
And every murder is full of 'what if' that'd said this or done that or things had been different. I don't see how this one is different.
Trying to make out that discussion of the case is somehow something that should be offlimits to the rest of the public when it's being politicised by trans activists and MPs is just 'wow'.
The idea that we must remain silent out of a sense of unquestioning respect or we are bad people is actually frightening. Condemning others for not sharing your opinion and castigating them for 'not caring' is quite frankly bollocks. And it's utterly tone deaf as to how this case was politicised from the off and who by.
Who thought of the grieving mother when they shouted 'transphobia' before arrests were even made?! But that's ok, because those are the 'right 'opinions to have.
Nor can you have a whinge at MNetters saying that comorbidities are a concern, when Cheshire Police say the following:
Detective chief superintendent Mike Evans, Cheshire Police’s head of crime, was asked by members of the press why he thinks the pair targeted Brianna.
He said: "So Brianna, I would say from her lifestyle her being an anxious child who stayed indoors a lot, was quite a vulnerable individual.
"She was very withdrawn, and she had a small social circle.
"The fact of her lack of confidence and anxiety, and the fact this was the first time she had been out for a while, I think made her quite vulnerable.
"That, and her being quite trusting of the girl involved who befriended her, I think made her relatively easy in terms of accessibility."
Before going on to say that it was because Brianna was trans but because she was vulnerable that made her the target rather than others on a list.
Every murder does raise the legitimate and worthwhile question of whether authorities could have made different decisions which might have safeguarded an individual better. In order to review whether institutions should change their behaviour or not.
Are you seriously saying that we shouldn't go through the normal process of this, 'because trans' and we should just on face value accept that trans exists in isolation and a vacuum separate from all else?
Are kids who identify as trans not worthy of the same level of reflection and review as any other group? Or is it an act of sacrilege to raise questions and talk about safeguarding in conjunction with trans?
God forbid the world and life in general should be complicated rather than black and white.
God forbid genuinely giving a shit, isn't packaged in a way that's always given the seal of political approval and justice and democracy isn't open to debate because that might just upset people and that's not very nice.
We live in a society where we understand that making things better involves talking about horrible things sometimes because if we don't we miss points that might cause further harms to others.
We can't change the past. We can be vigilant about how we go forward though.
I'm not going to be emotionally blackmailed by people who don't understand this and told I'm a horrible person for not towing an approved line. It's not reflective of the truth. It's not reflective of how I have sympathy for the mother. It's reflective of the fact that I feel if we don't have these conversations more people will be at risk in a multitude of ways and it's trying to ensure others are helped to be less vulnerable.
Trans is not the only thing that matters. Not in this case and not in life in general.