#trans activism

I Swear To God

Museum staff push for all-gender restrooms

The [Manchester] museum’s new restrooms don’t just appeal to trans and gender-nonconforming visitors, though, Davies told Hyperallergic. They also feature baby-changing spaces and three different types of accessible toilets, including a “Changing Places” toilet, equipped with a full-size changing bench and hoist so people with limited mobility can use the restroom or have their continence pad changed.

One day before the UK parliament was dissolved on 30 May 2024, the health secretary Victoria Atkins introduced an immediate ban for trans young people using puberty blockers.

Possession of puberty blockers for trans children is now punishable by up to two years in prison in the UK. Puberty blockers for cisgender children remains legal.

The timing of this act was careful and deliberate. As parliament was dissolved the next day, there are now no working MPs in the UK, meaning that citizens have no way to challenge the ban.

The Good Law Project is running a crowdfunder to challenge it in court. They have about £2,000 of £75,000 needed. Please support it if you can, in any way that works for you.

here’s is the family’s gofundme for the funeral, but they’ve already far surpassed their goal. like. three times what they were asking for, which is wonderful.

if you’re looking for other places to donate, there is the american indian college fund, which is exactly what it says, a nonprofit that works on sending indigenous kids to college and i think they even have some colleges of their own. nex was a part of the choctaw nation(i think there was confusion because they lived on a cherokee reservation?) and will never go to college, but it’s a good place to donate nonetheless.

there is also freedom oaklahoma, which is an advocacy group from nex’s state that focuses on queer/trans rights i believe from an indigenous and anti-colonization perspective. on that page they have a donate button as well.

I'll give you an example - let me write a headline for the same interview story in three different ways:

"child psychologist allison jenkins says respecting preferred pronouns 'crucial' to alleviating dysphoria for transgender youth"

"trans ally claims there could be 'drastic repercussions' for using the wrong pronouns for your child"

"radical transgender activist slams traditional parenting and gender roles, demanding respect"

what differences do you see between the above sentences?

did you notice that, even though the second example is less aggressive in tone than the third, neither of them mention the interviewee's name or credentials?

how about the way the main topic shifts from a medical professional's concerns about the treatment of trans minors and young adults to supposedly challenging traditional parenting styles in the second version, and outright attacking it in the third? did you spot how the headline progressively went from stating information to addressing the reader?

did you catch how the third version muddies the water when it comes to allison jenkins's personal gender identity, implying that there's no meaningful difference between a pro-trans activist and an actual transgender person?

if you were a trans person, would you feel as safe and comfortable discussing your identity with the writer of the second headline as the writer of the first?