It’s their politicians and media. I believe people in the UK when polled are less transphobic than in the USA. In that they generally don’t care much either way.
But in the USA it became part of the culture war so if you’re vaguely dem aligned your at least performatively less transphobic.
But there’s small number of influential TERFs that infest both Labour side and the tories, that get their voices elevated by the media and parties.
It’s their politicians and media. I believe people in the UK when polled are less transphobic than in the USA. In that they generally don’t care much either way.
But in the USA it became part of the culture war so if you’re vaguely dem aligned your at least performatively less transphobic.
But there’s small number of influential TERFs that infest both Labour side and the tories, that get their voices elevated by the media and parties.
The BBC is like the inverse of Hollywood. Both very insular, both with very homogeneous politics, but in two different directions.