I'll be heading to London tomorrow to protest the Tory Government's latest attack on Trans Rights by their Section 35 Order. London, Downing Street, 13:00. Open Invite. Come if you can. Let's make some noise. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
(If there has already been a formal march/protest organised I'll join that if people tell me who/where - but I'm not going to do nothing. This will still happen even if it is just me - but the more the better)
Signs* - but songs and chants welcome. Clearly seething rage is not good for writing posters. Also if anybody is coming if they can bring a mic/megaphone as I have none
The poster with the edited (and alt) text
(Apologies in advance for how much I'm going to be spamming the information for tomorrow's trans rights protest outside Downing Street at 1pm BTW, the more than show up, especially as this is last minute and during the work day, the better)
Also remember, this is an impromptu protest we are gathering at. There is no organiser, we keep eachother safe, and we look out for the people who turn up together. We are all in this together doing what we can.
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🧵 A Thread on how the Lord of The Rings Characters would react to Frodo coming out as Non-Binary...
(Because I needed to do something that made me smile today, enjoy)
Samwise says that whilst he might not immediately understand, he will protect his Frodo at all costs and endeavour to learn more about the Non-Binary community. Asks if he is still okay to call them "Master Baggins".
Meriadoc immediately hugs Frodo and exclaims "I always said the folk from Buckland where queer - guess there was just more Buckland in you than I knew!". He also Helps Frodo come out to Pippin.
There are two immediately happening to maximise the ability for people to attend in person protests considering it is such short notice.
One Tomorrow, 1300 outside Downing Street
One Wednesday 18th at 1700 also outside Downing Street
If you can attend both, attend both. I cant speak for the Wednesday one as I am not able to attend, but tomorrow's one is open invite and decentralised, bring signs and banners, there should be megaphones and anyone can speak their mind to the Tory fucks who will be over the road
I welcome this statement Adam, and hopefully this indicates Plaid is taking steps in the right direction on trans issues. However, how about a long overdue public and formal apology to all members that suffered under Plaid's inaction over transphobia within the party recently?
Plaid chose to stand by a potentially electable candidate for the Senedd despite her history of Transphobia being raised within the party, and directly and personally to yourself. You then attended her campaign launch. That's playing politics with trans lives. As of yet there...
... has not been, in mine and many others opinion, a sincere apology from yourself and the party leadership for this that doesn't try to mitigate responsibility or diminish what we went through. Again I see this statement as a positive step forward and welcome it, but please...
Okay so this blown up a bit and a result a lot of people have contributed really good points to this, but others seem to have misunderstood my point and others have, it seems, deliberately misrepresented what I've said so let me just add more clarity...
My point wasn't that all older gays see 'queer' as homophobic, I know my queer history and I know it was my queer elders who started to reclaim this and many other words. And I also wasn't saying it was universally true young people are bullied more by being called 'gay'..
...than they are 'queer'. But in general, and replies have confirmed this, people around my age and younger got called 'gay' by bullies far more than 'queer'. I mention this not to attack any group but to simply explain that when people argue "you can't use the word queer..."
I've seen it said before but it's worth repeating, most of the "Stop calling Gay people Queer" people are from an older demographic who don't realise most people my age and younger were bullied not with the word "queer" but the word "gay"...
... and so their arguments of queer being a homophobic slur against the entire community doesn't really work when many of us found out about the word 'queer' long after being called 'gay'. Especially considering how reclaimed the word 'queer' is.
Like I won't ascribe the label queer to anyone who personally doesn't want to use it, that's fine like, but the word "queer" has been reclaimed by a vast majority of people (just like the word gay, and most shorthand labels in our community) and there is power in using it.
For what it's worth, and with all the caveats of using prison population data to gauge anything about any demographic, the ONS Census shows trans people are proportionally underrepresented in the prison system at 63% of what one would expect based on the wider population...
A HMPPS Equalities report from 2021 showed there was 197 trans people in English or Welsh Prisons. The data does have caveats to what they count as trans people so let's estimate the real figure is around 250. Even with this higher that reported figure that means that out of...
...the entire trans population in England and Wales, only 0.0954% are in prison. Comparatively, of the general England and Wales population of around 59m, ≈89,000 are in prison, or 0.1508%.
If trans people represented a prison population proportional to our population...