Jo R’rith’s comments on trans anxiety, public spaces and current guidance

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This just up on socials from Jo:

"Regular viewers to "The Jo R'rith Show" will know I suffer a great deal from anxiety attacks, and PTSD from events that began in 2015. Viewers are probably also familiar with my status as a trans woman in Britain, a country that in that time has become increasingly transphobic and bigoted.

Y'all may also be familiar with my costuming/cosplaying/fancy dress or whatever you want to call it, particularly my Uruk-Hai Orc costume. But what you may not realise is that they all intersect - I have anxiety attacks because I am a trans woman in a country that is abusive towards trans people and is trying to segregate us from the rest of the population. I travel to and from events where I wear my costumes, risking transphobic abuse and hatred for being trans. Only when Im in my costume do I get any respite from the fear and anxiety, basically because I'm unrecognisable beneath said costume, and because no one feels confident enough to have a go at the intimidating Uruk-Hai General wearing armour standing before them.

But my anxiety is strong, sometimes overpowering, and that's before the new EHRC guidance on how to be a bigoted cockwomble towards trans people, is included. You see I, like a great many trans people; know my rights and the law. I know that I haven't been banned from female toilets or changing spaces, but I also know that you, Joe Public, don't know that; because you've been fed a shit tonne of lies by the Press, and by TERFs telling you different, and Im sure that, if they find this post; some TERF cockwomble will erroneously claim that it is against the law, but they're lying So that means every time I use a public space, say the female toilets at a services or the like, then I run the risk of encountering someone who thinks I shouldnt be there, and so anxiety, panic and my PTSD."

Anyone remember the elf that dropped by to lecture us on biology. I believe he was a Green Party committee member or something.

I think I remember he did elf porn too on an alt account on twitter when had porn.

There is also the male person who keeps posting pictures of JKRowling as a gotcha when people tell him he doesn’t pass. Ie. he posts her pics as if they are his pics. He gets interviewed at protests occasionally.

He does cosplay too and posts it on his social media profile.

The fluttery one?

Why yes! But I will not mention any names.

You would be most welcome. Drop in for a glass of whatever you fancy, it will have neither alcohol nor calories but will taste exactly as you wish. The bar gerbils are excellent mixologists and the women propping up the bar are friendly and not at all eccentric.

“I have anxiety attacks because I am a trans woman in a country that is abusive towards trans people and is trying to segregate us from the rest of the population.”

Where does he live? He mentions Britain, but there’s no UK laws segregating trans people. What kind of abuse is he getting? The kind that asks him to get out of the ladies changing room?

The fuck is elf porn? The mind boggles (not to mention the pointy ears)

Mordor presumably. But one does not simply walk into Mordor women's loos

Edited to add. I know the Uruk Hai are from Isengard but I couldn't think of a joke for that