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What is Trans Liberation? Event 20th Oct
‘It’s important that we understand the difference between trans liberation and trans rights, because if we only strive to make things a little better and set our sights on the bare minimum, we’ll always be playing catch-up and responding to attacks made against us. We must fight for liberation, for more than the bare minimum,…
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‘Don’t let the bampots grind you down!’
Leslie (he/him) is a trans man based in Edinburgh. Here’s his take on the Tory party conference. ‘Cruella Braverman did us a favour last week by joining up the dots. She announced that people who are LGBT+ or women should no longer be allowed to apply for asylum on that basis, neatly demonstrating that the Tories…
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Defend Trans rights, defend democracy
The Scottish Government challenge against the Section 35 blocking of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill (Scotland) is now in court. What is the Bill about? Why did the Tories block it? Gender Recognition Reform in Scotland ‘This is a significant and important Bill, but it has been met with one of the most spiteful and…
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Oban Pride 2023
It was a grand weekend at Oban Pride (1st – 3rd September), starting with an unofficial ‘trans takeover’ in a local pub, where G and I handed out about 100 trans liberation stickers on the dance floor. It was entirely unintentional, a chance compliment by a member of staff about G’s T-shirt following a glass…
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Everyone is welcome here
Why not have a year round pride? Edinburgh during pride is great, and during the rest of the year you can still find some shops and local businesses with LGBT+ stickers and flags. So why not something more permanent? We started in May 2023, going around local shops with ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ stickers and…
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No Pride without Trans Pride!
The sun came out for over 400 people marching from the metal dragon on Dundee High Street to the Bonar Hall. According to Maggie Chapman MSP, it was ‘extremely colourful’, and pretty loud. Chants of ‘Trans rights are human rights’ and ‘Protect trans kids’, among others, set the tone, and there were many creative placards,…
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Fringe politics
They say they are being silenced, but appear in all the media. They say their views are mainstream, in defiance of the facts. They say they are measured, but roll their eyes when a colleague speaks. They say they fight misogyny, but are silent when their allies work with misogynists. They see a little smoke…
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Drag Queen Story Hour
When an Aida H Dee poster was defaced with ‘Teach ABCs not LGBTs’ they responded that they taught both. ‘Acceptance, Bravery, Compassion, Love, Generosity, Benevolence, Tolerance’. This set of values was too much for the far right, who promised a blockade of the show by up to 300 anti-drag protestors. Attempts by the far right…
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Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh 