I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the Mass Lobby at Parliament on June 25th, 11am-4pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.

The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It becomes statutory guidance in the UK by the end of June.

Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.

A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Ask your MP to:

Demand full parliamentary scrutiny, debate, and use their free vote on the EHRC Code of Practice.

Support any motions rejecting the EHRC guidance. As of June 4th, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has submitted a prayer motion - Early Day Motion 240.

Write to Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities about our concerns

Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.

I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.

It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:

Attorney Samuel Joe Brown (July 6, 1875 – July 24, 1950) was born in Keosauqua, Iowa. He was determined to succeed despite the odds he faced as an African American Iowan. He was the youngest of six children. His parents, Lewis and Elizabeth Henderson Brown, were descendants of enslaved people.

The family moved to Ottumwa when he was 10 years old. Both his parents died before he was 14. Despite being on his own, he earned his way through high school working nights as a hotel bellboy for room, board, and one dollar a week.

One of his teachers helped him find a hotel job in Iowa City and a tuition scholarship to the University of Iowa. In 1898 he became the first African American graduate from the college of liberal arts and the first chosen for membership in Phi Beta Kappa, a society honoring high scholastic achievement.

He earned his LLB but set aside his ambition to practice law. He spent one year as principal of a school in a southern Iowa coal mining town. It was the only public school in Iowa where African Americans could teach. He moved to Texas and taught at Bishop College.

Attorney Samuel Joe Brown (July 6, 1875 – July 24, 1950) was born in Keosauqua, Iowa. He was determined to succeed despite the odds he faced as an African American Iowan. He was the youngest of six children. His parents, Lewis and Elizabeth Henderson Brown, were descendants of enslaved people.

The family moved to Ottumwa when he was 10 years old. Both his parents died before he was 14. Despite being on his own, he earned his way through high school working nights as a hotel bellboy for room, board, and one dollar a week.

One of his teachers helped him find a hotel job in Iowa City and a tuition scholarship to the University of Iowa. In 1898 he became the first African American graduate from the college of liberal arts and the first chosen for membership in Phi Beta Kappa, a society honoring high scholastic achievement.

He earned his LLB but set aside his ambition to practice law. He spent one year as principal of a school in a southern Iowa coal mining town. It was the only public school in Iowa where African Americans could teach. He moved to Texas and taught at Bishop College.

The Pink Triangle Legacies Project is a grassroots initiative dedicated to researching the experiences of queer and trans people in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.

A YouTube playlist of lectures from the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and Queensborough Community College.

On the Institute for Sexual Research

and

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1wf4dmd.8

Continuing my DA 2 song illustration series thingy whatever. For Isabela the song is:

- sneezed wrong

- turned your neck a little too fast

- slept weird

- took the trash out to the curb and stepped at a slightly different angle than usual

- breathed

- failed to breathe properly

- breathed in the wrong stuff. Allergy time

- looked too hard at something too far away

It rules when homophobes die

It rules when conservative icons drop dead

Do exactly what you're paid for and nothing more

Absolutely refuse to be available to contact when you're off the clock

Never prioritize work over your own health, wellbeing, or family because that would be insane, it's just a job.

Have a little glass of wine

Take as long as you feel like for lunch

Deeply understand that work doesn't matter

Old Millennial American speaking here. I need you to adopt this mentality as early as possible and hold to it. The older you get, the harder it is to begin this practice and claw back the extremely unhealthy effects of a workaholic lifestyle. I am speaking from 20 years of experience.

This does not mean having a shitty attitude at work, or not doing your job, or relying on co-workers to carry your water.

This means you do what it says above. It also means not making work and productively your entire personality; not tying your productivity to your value; and not becoming so emotionally enmeshed in your work and workplace so that you are living and dying by what happens there.