Alison Rooper

Alison Rooper

@alisonrooper.bsky.social

Documentary film maker. Please consider supporting my documentary about trans lives: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/a-dance-of-identity

64 Followers 72 Following 28 Posts Joined Nov 2024
6 months ago
A Dance of Identity - documentary about trans life To fund the completion of a feature documentary about a trans family as they navigate an alarming campaign against trans rights.

I’ve had the privilege of witnessing the impact of the RHRC’s proposed bathroom ban on Britain’s trans people by filming with a trans family over the last 7 years . Others need to know . Please help me get this film out by donating and sharing this widely

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/a-dance-of...

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6 months ago
A Dance of Identity - documentary about trans life To fund the completion of a feature documentary about a trans family as they navigate an alarming campaign against trans rights.

Please consider supporting our documentary A Dance of Identity into life. We have just a week to reach our stretch target of £25k Getting this film out is more urgent than ever. It is the story of a 7 year campaign of hostility towards trans existence.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/a-dance-of...

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6 months ago

The EHRC has sent its guidance to the Government. Now politicians need to act. As @nancymk.bsky.social writes:
"They can require the EHRC produce a code that is compliant with the Human Rights Act and the public sector equality duty." If they don't act, they are responsible for the harm."

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6 months ago
A picture of the shell game - three red - ish cups, with a hand lifting one to show a dice.

As EHRC leaks a final draft Code of Practice to the Equality Act to the Times then delivers it to govt and attempts to wash its hands of the impact on trans people, its important to recognise and call out the shell game we're in. EHRC will say 'we're just following the Supreme Court judgement' 1/3

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9 months ago

"I want to live in a world where I don’t have to worry about being attacked when I use the swimming pool changing rooms with my daughter or in the public loos when she needs a change or I need to pee". Sophie in today's Metro calls for your support. 2 days left!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...

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9 months ago
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A Dance of Identity Trans Life in a Hostile World

Thank you @alicemydaughter.bsky.social. Your book Her Name is Alice is brutally honest and inspirational. And thank you for sharing these details. We have just 9 days left to raise alot . So please read and chip in what you can: www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...

#transrightsarehumanrights

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9 months ago
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A Dance of Identity Trans Life in a Hostile World

This is the harsh reality of what the EHRC are trying to do - to exclude trans families from living normal life in the UK. As our film A Dance of Identity will show, Sophie has been worrying about for 3 years. Please pledge now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...

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9 months ago

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9 months ago
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A Dance of Identity Trans Life in a Hostile World

So happy to have Lee Hurley's help in amplifying the kickstarter for our documentary. We have just 14 days to reach the target or we can't get the film finished. Please pledge whatever you can now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...

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9 months ago

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9 months ago
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A Dance of Identity Trans Life in a Hostile World

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So happy to see a piece about our kickstarter by the Media Diversity Institute. We have just 14 days to reach our target and get this important film out in cinemas. www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...

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9 months ago
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A DANCE OF IDENTITY - Media Diversity Institute The struggle of bringing the story of a trans dancer to the public The past six years for Sophie, a trans amateur dancer from Yorkshire, have been extraordinary. She was given the opportunity to reali...

🩰 What does it take to tell the story of a trans dancer in a hostile climate?
Filmmaker Alison Rooper followed Sophie’s journey for 6 years. Now she needs your help to finish the film.
📖 Read her story: shorturl.at/Ean0u
🎥 Support the Kickstarter:

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9 months ago
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A Dance of Identity Trans Life in a Hostile World

Echoing Sophie: mainstream media only hears trans voices when their very existence is being challenged. This documentary can help to correct the false narratives. But we can't complete it and get it out in cinemas without support. If you're LGBTQIA+ or a trans ally, please chip in

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9 months ago
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A Dance of Identity Trans Life in a Hostile World

The impact on trans people of EHRC's interim guidance was movingly described by ‪@rozsavage.bsky.social‬ and MPs in this Commons debate on self ID : lnkd.in/epQgkBaV. To help amplify trans voices please support my documentary: www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...
#TransRightsAreHumanRights

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10 months ago

Lee you've been great from the moment this appalling judgment was published. Please continue the good work and know that you are supported by trans allies like me

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10 months ago
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UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010 The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.

The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010

www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

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11 months ago
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Feedback From a Reader It's not quite a fortnight since my book Her Name is Alice was published. Honestly, after the stress of the pre-publication interviews, publication day was a bit of an anti-climax. My team at Harper Collins took me and my agent out for a bite to eat, and then onto Gays the Word to sign a few pre-order copies. But I cancelled later celebratory drinks, planned with a couple of girlfriends, and took the train back to the suburbs for a quiet night in with my husband. For several days I was subdued a

Adding a website as a resource in my book was a last minute decision. I'm so glad I did. Readers are reaching out.

"It has completely opened my eyes to my ignorance...to the plight of trans men and women."

Read my short blog post about it.

Buy my book www.carolinelitman.com/her-name-is-...

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11 months ago

Are you counting the horrendously transphobic Observer opinion piece on Sunday? (doubtless penned by Sonia Sodha)

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1 year ago

Wonderful to see Caroline's book and interviews are cutting through in North London salons. I'm just off to pick up my copy ....

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1 year ago

Caroline's forthcoming book about her trans daughter Alice is essential reading for all those who haven't understood what's at stake for all our human rights in Trump's wholescale persecution of trans people . Buy the book on March 13th!

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1 year ago

This is a very good assessment of the situation and the way forward by @katymontgomerie.com

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1 year ago

Great to hear this support for trans rights from Unison

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1 year ago

If anti trans campaigners were hoping to find their beliefs endorsed, the session had the opposite effect. It was a public revelation of a scandalous intervention into children's well being by ignorant politicians. (9/10)

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1 year ago

Prof Giordano was clear that the politicising of trans healthcare had resulted in clinical experts being excluded from key decision making bodies. Whether to prescribe puberty blockers is not a job for parliament but for patients, parents and their medical advisors, she said (8/10)

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1 year ago

It was shocking to hear Prof Butler describe the desperation of the thousands of young people and their families waiting for assessment who are now in limbo. Many of those young people are off school and ‘barely functioning’, he told MPs. (7/10)

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1 year ago

This judgment surely undermines the whole premise of the government’s ban on blockers! (which is to suspend all treatments outside a research trial) (6/10)

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1 year ago

puberty blockers have an overwhelmingly positive impact on the mental health of trans adolescents. Equally damning was the view of all three experts that it any ‘clinical trial’ of puberty blockers would be neither ethical nor workable. (5/10)

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1 year ago

In the many years of their use globally there has been zero evidence that they damage fertility or brain development; New long term studies into both these aspects are soon to be published. Existing international studies and clinical evidence so far in Britain confirm that (4/10)

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1 year ago

We learned that: puberty blockers are a safe and effective treatment for children who suffer from precocious puberty as well as adolescents questioning their gender. Fears that they damage bone density are unfounded as the bone density is restored once hormones (male or female) are restored;(3/10)

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1 year ago

This is the first time we’ve heard Britain’s top endocrinologists and bioethicists comment publicly on last year’s Cass report which has been used by politicians to end trans healthcare for thousands of young people. (2/10)

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