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Musician, Writer, Activist "Trans Like Me" @ViragoBooks @SealPress "Furies" @Virago Agent @L_Macdougall Barbara Strozzi PhD @CMCItweets Transpose They/them
Apr 6, 2023 30 tweets 6 min read
Trans people in the UK are under attack - here's a very long thread 🧵with ideas on what we can do about it:

1. Politically
2. Socially
3. Personally

But first up, read @NotRightRuth's excellent post below - everything she said, underlined. 1. Okay, so what can both cis and trans people do politically?

Beyond Ruth's excellent advice (really, make yourself a nuisance to your MP), I urge every single person reading this to join 3 groups right now:

1. A union
2. A pan-human rights group
3. A trans specific group
Apr 4, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Going to take a while to process EHRC's wickedly transphobic - specifically transmisogynistic - new push, but two things are really clear:
1. We need to think about winning the long game, and conserving energy and resources to do it
2. We need to make surviving worthwhile And thinking of that second point: some parts of society (powerful parts of society) are more openly hateful and punitive than they were - and also a great many people are more trans positive, or even neutral, than they were before the Equality Act came in...
Feb 7, 2023 21 tweets 4 min read
Updates on @GoodLawProject and my role as Chair of the Trans Advisory Group: a thread 🧵

TL;DR I'll no longer be volunteering with GLP, due to their support of the group Right To Equality, and the ways in which they've communicated/not-communicated this support. Summary of longer version:
1. This support goes against my responsibilities as Chair
2. The Nordic Model can never be trans inclusive
3. I believe material support is different from just 'working with'
4. I disagree with GLP's lack of clear communication on this issue...