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Care to elaborate on those reasons? And I don't want to hear about JK Rowling. Every country has loud twats on twitter.
Look up trans healthcare rights in the UK. Transphobia is actively being promoted by our government based on shitty unfounded but politically backed science like the Cass report.
And while the UK is probably one of the safest places in the world to be gay, there is still homophobia. If you're visibly queer and ever have to rely on healthcare services, you will most likely experience it.
I'm familiar, a good friend of mine is going through it at the moment. I'm not saying it's perfect, I'm saying we don't deserve the name "terf island" when we're ranked 15th in the world for trans rights.
Since you say you're already familiar with the Cass report and issues like multi year wait times for initial appointments for transition care, I'll jump to other examples.
Media - From the BBC, to the Guardian, to Channel 4, transphobia is given a megaphone.
Rising levels of hate crimes
Guidance to schools includes outing transgender children to their parents
I'm just trying to be a little bit more optimistic about things, I feel like we've had some real progression in the last decade. My workplace has tampons in the men's toilets which would have seemed inconceivable ten years ago. Everyone I know has been accepting of my friends that transitioned, even ones that vote Tory. I guess people on the internet just really want to be pessimistic and cry about how bad everything is. I'll stop arguing here, feel free to continue the doom and gloom.