Thanks - I‘ll let everyone know how it goes at the end of the month. I’ve worked for them for over 20 years so it came as a shock.
Not me - I was too busy this week trying to save my job. It’s not going well. 🙁
I have 2 - my black one is a Japanese Squier that cost about £200 in the 80s. It’s better than my Gibson!
I know my LibDem MP is supportive and she’s joined in signing motions and letters on our behalf in parliament. But, Ed Davey needs to do more to make the position of his party clear on supporting us, He comes across as trying to be neutral and we should expect far more than that!
Imagine
Being barred from toilets
Denied life saving medication
Denied work opportunities
Barred from sport
Barred from clubs
Barred from changing rooms
Just for being yourself.
That's the reality for trans people in the UK.
Trans people are treated as sub human beings in the UK.
No thanks! Watching a bunch of “politicians” bickering over their near identical far right politics is enough to ruin anyone’s night!
What a fantastic speech!
It wasn’t my kind of music either, but I’d have loved to have been able to go just for the experience.
Thanks all - the interview was pretty tough covering several roles, but I’m happy I gave the best answers I could have.
Probably just as well I couldn’t go because I have an interview later today 😃
I don’t want his neck snapped - it’s too quick a punishment for him! I want to see the man publicly humiliated and hopefully sent to prison for what he did as “health” secretary. We need a Green government for that though.
I’m pleased everyone seemed to have had a great time last night 🩷.
Yeah, I’m not taking it personally as I notice several of my moots are blocked by the same account………..
I only have a small presence here so only have 45 blocks so far. With the exception of one reasonably big trans poster who I accidentally annoyed when I first joined (what can I say, I was new to social media!) most aren’t that big a deal.
Yum! Home made sausage rolls - try adding a little pickle to the sausage meat.
Two, but I work for a big company and they work in different locations than I do.
I’ve already decided that if I survive the current consultation at work I’m putting every last penny I can afford to into my pension so they won’t be getting the tax from it………..
Yes, I’m already exploring ordering spare supplies from elsewhere whilst it’s still legal. It might come to fleeing to Ireland or Spain (depending on the need to work), but I have caring responsibilities for my elderly parents who won’t want to come.
We’re almost the same age - but I guess in trans years I’m probably about 80!
That might require leaving the country though - which would be a challenge for so many of us.
That of course is the transphobe‘s ultimate aim, forced detransition of all tran women (they don’t care so much about trans men and NB folk). I‘d rather die than submit to that!
The serious medical complications resulting from removing HRT from post-op trans women are made clear to us before the GICs discharge us. Not that the transphobes Labour enthusiastically supports will care about that when they remove our medication. Infact, they’ll probably treat it as a bonus…….
I’m essentially really boring. I have a pretty standard 9-5 office job like almost everyone else.
I’m learning the piano, love walks in nature and used to be majorly into photography.
I’ve never hurt anyone, I just wanted a quiet life but I’m trans, so Labour don’t think I should exist anymore.
Thank you 🩷.
MPs regularly get letters from anti-trans campaigners via letter writing campaigns. In the past, that’s all they really got, but we’ve been trying to change that over the past year, The more trans supportive letters they get, and especially from those who aren’t trans, the better.
It’s a story virtually every trans person shares. We just have normal lives hurting nobody but we’re constantly attacked by society and have no choice but to fight for our very survival. All most of us wanted was a quiet life free from the horrors we felt pre-transition. We didn’t ask for much…..
Writing to your local MP is a good starting point, as is signing the NION letter. @nionwomen.bsky.social
I’m not sure there’s much trans people can do for ourselves because we aren’t listened to - although we will continue fighting for our rights. We really need everyone else to be vocal, make a fuss and be really clear they won’t stand for what is being done to us.
From the crippling dysphoria this will cause to the disintegration of post-op trans women through dissociative disorders and severe osteoporosis they know exactly what this would do. Some of us will run if we can, but many will suffer and die.
For those of us who were discharged by the GICs sometimes decades ago and for whom removal of HRT would be clinically dangerous, this would be a direct choice between leave the UK or die. Not all of us can leave.
Not in the UK sadly, our courts can’t be trusted when it comes to anything to do with us.
