All our fault
Is that true?
I assume that by ” those who have whipped up Britain’s unhinged transphobic moral panic” Jones means those who have pointed out that people can’t change sex and that men who claim to be women are displacing and bullying women.
Is it likely that four teenagers would stab a man who claims to be a woman because gender critical feminists point out that men can’t be women? I don’t think it’s likely at all. I don’t think stabby teenagers spend much time considering the arguments of gender critical feminists. To be fair I don’t think they spend any time doing that.
Owen Jones is a feckin egit. As you point out, the sort of person that goes around stabbing people will do that to someone they think looked at them funny, who’s wearing the wrong socks, who looks like they’re not from around here, who looks like they’re having too good a time, who didn’t hand over their phone fast enough, or even if they did, because that’s why. Sing different in any particular way is enough. So sure, the poor victim might have been attacked because they were visibly trans, but then lesbians have been attacked because they were lesbian.
And it could just be random.