"Yeah we hate trans people and immigrants too!" doesn't actually land when people are capable of seeing you've only recently adopted such hard-line views. Likewise, "but we're doing all this other stuff and also do you WANT Reform to win?!" doesn't make people feel any better about you being evil

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

principal

H/t to @ameresolicitor.bsky.social for sharing this. I will try my best to do same as I did with the earned settlement route consultation to come up with some simple guidance for filling it out.
Please fill it out and stand with trans and non-binary individuals against this
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Telling parents is downright dangerous. It will very clearly put many trans and non-binary young people at risk of abuse, bullying, potentially homelessness, among other things. This is the exact opposite of "protecting children". It's transphobia as policy.

Labour has brought back section 28 against trans and non-binary individuals. I lived through section 28 last time. I suffered the harms of it. This will do the same thing. Not even allowing young people to socially transition is plain wrong. It prevents them finding their own identity.

Worth noting that in their continued "unbiased" reporting (sarcasm) the BBC doesn't cover how the Cass Review has been repeatedly discredited by peer reviewed studies, that suicide rates among trans young people have increased or, not a small matter, QUOTES A SINGLE TRANS OR NON-BINARY INDIVIDUAL.

It's like Blue Labour is seeing the explosion in trans suicidality and is rubbing its hands together and saying, 'ooh, we want more of that!'

One of the horrific things about this positioning is that it takes agency away from children and families. If you're a parent who is happy for your eight year old son to share overnight accommodation with his trans schoolfriend, and they are both happy, why is Labour telling them they can't?

My kid is in the background, chatting to me about her day as I type this. I am distracted & feeling sick.

I'm trying not to cry.

I don't know what to say to her.

She's already been failed so many times.

Its so fucking unfair.

I don't know how to function in a world that is so continuously cruel.

Where so many will celebrate this pointless, pointless harm. This will devastate a tiny minority. It will benefit no-one.

So many across our country will comply with this violence. So many others will stand silent.

I am beyond angry at the way trans children are being systematically persecuted.

The full power, violence and force of our state is smashing down onto them, making their life impossible.

Trans kids are already pushed out of education. Denied qualifications. Denied a future.

This will push so many more trans kids out of education entirely.

How can I send my own daughter to school with this law in place? She would not cope.

I am one of the most published academics on the childhood social transition, with 5 peer reviewed articles that relate to the topic.

There is so much evidence of benefit of social transition.

There is no evidence of harm. Not one jot.

This will literally kill trans kids. No exaggeration.