For personal reasons, namely a fundamental disdain and dislike for my own coupled with more than one scar, I normally try and avoid #FathersDay like the plague. This year though is a little different. 1/
https://twitter.com/Love146UK/status/1538455246439055364
You'll occasionally see some manufactured hysteria about schools sending home letters addressed to "parents and guardians" instead of "mother and father", despite this having been commonplace for decades. 2/
It is actually important though, and not just, rightly, to respect trans-individuals. It's important because there are many children who don't have mothers and fathers. They have guardians and people they see as parents. 3/
My mum died when I was starting secondary school, the first Saturday of the first half term of the first year. I left school on the Friday expecting to go on scout camp and she died the next morning. The funeral was on the Thursday and I was back in school the next Monday. 4/
My dad worked away and avoided being home as much as possible. Not exactly a bad idea from my perspective all things considered. So I was brought up by other people. I spent a year living with friends of the family who to this day I consider more like parents than anyone else. 5/
Since starting at @Love146UK I have seen the importance of having someone there to support and care for trafficked children. Giving them the love and kindness which so many people take for granted. Foster parents aren't necessarily "mother and father" but they are parents. 6/
That's what annoys me about transphobes making out that schools addressing letters to "parents and guardians" is an attack on them. It isn't. It never has been. It's an acknowledgement that there are amazing people out there who aren't "mothers and fathers", but are parents. 7/
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