A mother said she felt pressured to home school her trans son over the impact of the government's sex education guidance.

A mother said she felt pressured to home school her trans son over the impact of the government's sex education guidance.

Join us for the Trans+ History Week 2026: Workbook LaunchWe’re launching our third workbook 3 months ahead of Trans+ History Week so you can plan your own activities. Our workbook is a practical tool for learning, sharing and protecting Trans+ history at a time when our stories face mounting erasure. It's time for the history lesson you were denied and continue to be denied. Join us as we launch the workbook for the third edition of Trans+ History Week this coming May 4-10. This session will help you to get ready to celebrate Trans+ History Week with a new set of global history lessons for you to share. Who is this for?This session is for the Trans+ community and allies who want to learn more about the history we’ve all been denied and how you can pull together an event to mark the week. This may be in your workplace and community. You may be a community organiser, affinity network chair, EDI leader, culture worker, educator. Whoever you are, this is for you.What is the workbook?Our workbook is a free resource, packed full of stories and ideas on how you can mark the week at your organisation. We’re worked with QueerAF and commissioned four writers from our alumni creative community to produce four new stories. This year we uncover Uganda’s Lango people, study the legacy of the Shinjuku Boys of Tokyo, look at the influence the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot had on the LGBTQIA+ rights movement and pick through the archives to find moments where we’ve created the families. Join our founder, Marty Davies. Our lead researcher, Gray Burke-Stowe and others as we introduce you to this year’s lessons and help you to share them with the world. We’ll leave you inspired to put on your own event in May and with a whole lot of advice to get your going. Expect insights, take-aways & shared experiences from a fantastic panel of trans+ thought leaders and change makers on what YOU can do in the real world to make life better for Trans+ people in 2026. The Trans+ History Week 2026: Workbook Launch with QueerAF, powered by DIVA Charitable Trust and hosted at Allianz Commercial's offices at 15 BishopsgateRun of show5.30PM | ARRIVAL & REGISTRATION with refreshments6.00PM | WELCOME & SCENE SETTING | Marie-Helene Tyack, Chair of the Board of Trustee, DIVA Charitable Trust and Global Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging Manager Allianz Commercial6.10PM | KEYNOTE: Trans+ History Week Year 3 | Marty Davies, Founder, Trans+ History Week6.20PM | LAUNCH: Trans+ History Week Workbook | Gray Burke-Stowe, Leader Researcher, Trans+ History Week6.30PM | CONTRIBUTORS EXPERIENCE, RESEARCH & STORIES 6.40PM | PANEL DISCUSSION: Storytelling, collaboration & action 7.00PM | BREAKOUT DISCUSSION: Idea sharing7.15PM | AUDIENCE Q&A7.30PM | CLOSING REMARKS: Key take-aways & calls to action 7.35PM | NETWORKING & REFRESHMENTS8.30PM | Close Tell me more about Trans+ History WeekTrans+ History Week CIC is a Trans+ led nonprofit, social enterprise and QueerAF launchpad project. It exists to popularise the newly created global awareness week: Trans+ History Week, 4–10 May 2026, and Trans+ History Day, 6 May. It is a week-long reflective period to learn and celebrate the momentous and millennia-old history of transgender, non-binary, gender-diverse and Intersex people. Our rights and our stories are under threat from the anti-rights movement. With book bans, media exclusion and misrepresentation and with censorship in academia and the arts making headlines, we’re seeing ever-intensifying attacks on our rights across the world. We have become a year-round movement to save our stories. Challenging erasure and prejudice by restoring Trans+ people’s place in our collective human story. We’re reclaiming our common humanity and in doing so creating more fertile ground for securing our rights and preventing rights rollbacks. The organisation commissions content and hosts events and exhibitions that reflect on history and surface learnings for our present to secure a better future. Since formation, the organisation has raised over £100,000 and along with QueerAF invested in over 75 Trans+ creatives: writers, illustrators, audio producers, musicians, photographers, speakers, journalists, poets and comedians to surface Trans+ stories. Accessibility info This will be a hybrid event enabling all to attend either online or in-person. The venue is wheelchair accessible. Please advise on on any additional access requirements upon registration.A recording will be available following the event___Stay up to date on Trans+ History Week activity, follow us on Instagram @transhistoryweek and subscribe to QueerAF. https://www.wearequeeraf.com/

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