Radical impediments: The ideological underpinnings of lacking infrastructure affecting trans+ communities in contemporary UK

Digital infrastructure has played a crucial role in transgender acts of becoming, from historical examples of bulletin board systems and early websites to the modern platform age, where their modalities (epistemic, communicative, and leisurely interaction) suggest several trans potentialities. Top-down government decisions regarding access and infrastructure break apart trans camaraderie of our own struggles and those we feel kinship with (e.g., in criticising homonationalist perspectives on the Palestinian genocide). This paper discusses the background of an increasingly hostile state, based on a review of policy changes that have threatened rights to access and free expression, countered by community-owned structures and digital counterpublics that have at least ensured some hope and resistance for a trans+ thriving across cyberspace and meatspace. We conclude this analysis by visiting the potential of organised trans+ communities using digital resources in processes of un/belonging. By presenting the case of the pro-Palestine resistance in opposition to the UK government, we associate the lack of infrastructure and appropriate policy with an attempt to silence dissent and community coalition in modern UK politics.