BAD TRANS: Weaponizing One Against All

When a young transgender artist known as Faye ‘Trust Fund Ozu’ created a song that contained the lyrics “JK hope you fit in a hearse,” a reference to the notoriously transphobic children’s author J.K Rowling, the writer responded by doing what all anti-trans campaigners do when offered such a gift to her toxic cause- she took a screenshot, posted it to her 14 million followers and leveraged it to further the false narrative that all transgender women are threatening, dangerous and violent.

The opportunity to present oneself as a victim is never wasted by the most venomous of anti-transgender activists. It allows them to dog-whistle their like-minded followers, whip them into a hysterical frenzy and manipulate them into the belief that transgender individuals are simply bad people. Of course, like the countless other vicious social media dwellers who make a practice of preying on trans women online, harassing them, subjecting them to threats and pile-ons, Rowling, who had been trending for three solid days as she continued her crusade of acquiescing an army of hate-riddled activists, used the trans songstress as weapon with which all trans people would be skewered with.