Because Britain does not have
Self ID, trans teenager Brianna Ghey cannot be buried as her true self. She
won’t be allowed the dignity of having ‘beloved daughter’ on her gravestone. Or
a correct death certificate. All because the mob oppose something they don’t
understand.
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Yesterday,
one of my News feeds reproduced this Tweet ; it’s the only way I ever encounter
Tweets.
Brianna Ghey
was murdered a few days ago at the age of sixteen and from first accounts it
would seem that she would have realised she was being killed. Her family have
to live with that knowledge added to the knowledge that they have lost someone
who is never going to come back. As yet, it seems that the motives (if any) of
the suspects are unknown and I don’t know what is worse: to think that Brianna
was murdered for a reason or for no reason at all. Her family are in what is
called the glare of publicity; they have to deal with that and with the police
and a post mortem and, in due course, an inquest, a funeral [which I think has to follow the inquest and cannot precede it] and trial. It barely bears thinking about - and
India Willoughby isn’t going to even attempt it. She’s streets ahead imagining
the gravestone.
A
gravestone? Not many people now want gravestones; it’s a very conservative
choice. Maybe it would have been Brianna’s choice and maybe it will be her
family’s. But both may have or have had other ideas: scattered ashes, a rose
bush, a donation in memory of; some people choose nothing at all.. But India Willoughby wants a gravestone because she
can then harness Brianna’s death to her own cause: “Because Britain does not
have Self ID….”
I found the
Tweet crudely opportunistic (but then Twitter is designed for opportunists)
and, to be honest, crass and unfeeling. But it will get lots of likes from the
Twitter mob for whom Brianna is not really a person at all, just an example of
something else.
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