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Trans rights are human rights
Jul. 4th, 2020 11:23 pmI was at the trans rights protest in London today, to protest the rollback of rights the government is moving forward on (despite 70% of people in their consultation saying they supported the move FORWARD that was being suggested then) and in favour of a move forward, including various policies.
The protest was very intersectional, and had some great speakers (esp Juno Dawson, a best-selling YA author in the UK, and some others whose names I didn’t catch). I met some nice people. There were great signs.
I’m just feeling rather emotionally bruised after it, and actually had alittle quite a big cry just now.
The protest itself was great, I just… I mean, I’m cis, so the chants weren’t affirming for me - and I'm not there to get affirmation but to provide it - but the stories about how awful things are still got to me. And it’s not like I didn’t know, but...
One of the chants was Protect Trans Youth. And we can’t. ( cut for feelings about that )
I did really like the bit at the protest where the speaker spoke to the closeted people out there, saying everyone there was thinking of them and wishing them safe, and we all cheered and yelled maybe the loudest we did all day. And when a separate BLM protest march passed, we all cheered and screamed and did our best to loudly support them. Solidarity forever.
The protest was very intersectional, and had some great speakers (esp Juno Dawson, a best-selling YA author in the UK, and some others whose names I didn’t catch). I met some nice people. There were great signs.
I’m just feeling rather emotionally bruised after it, and actually had a
The protest itself was great, I just… I mean, I’m cis, so the chants weren’t affirming for me - and I'm not there to get affirmation but to provide it - but the stories about how awful things are still got to me. And it’s not like I didn’t know, but...
One of the chants was Protect Trans Youth. And we can’t. ( cut for feelings about that )
I did really like the bit at the protest where the speaker spoke to the closeted people out there, saying everyone there was thinking of them and wishing them safe, and we all cheered and yelled maybe the loudest we did all day. And when a separate BLM protest march passed, we all cheered and screamed and did our best to loudly support them. Solidarity forever.