Labour FFS you have to take some positive decisions. Some investment in positive things.

You’re just the delay for reform otherwise.

Actually marriage equality was relevant to lgb trans people too in the UK as it enabled them to marry as their correct gender. Plus some people had been denied early GRAs unless they divorced their existing partner, now of the same sex (case went all the way to the ECHR).

Another shared labelling - in the early 80s an Archbishop (Canterbury?) made UK headlines by saying gay people were to be pitied as “disabled” rather than evil.

Very Fedora, if you remember the film.

The recent policy change which makes it impossible for young trans people to delay puberty, at great cost to their mental health, has a special caveat to allow cross-sex hormones to be used on intersex children even contrary to their wishes, at great cost to their mental health.

Sometimes I’m glad I’m of the queer generation I am because those of us who survived now have little shame but quite a bit of fury when it’s needed - and increasingly it is.

Ouch! Journo error: I wasn't part of GLF (that's why I saw myself as fit to do their oral history, which this incident is taken from). Marginally too young. But Jack's an amazing talent and frankly, the story of that day is dying to be told! The book's available on Kindle, profits to Switchboard.

I emailed Nadia Sass the wife of the man who was charged alongside the former leader of Reform Wales, Nathan Gill, & she sent me a long reply..all about Nigel Farage.

The weird thing is that I didn’t ask her anything about Nigel Farage.
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