NotSoWittyWriter
We’re thrilled by the amount of coverage we’ve gotten for our protest recently – as LGBT+ people we are, naturally, a little wary of the media but the reporters who attended/wrote about our event were very positive and didn’t give a platform to anyone who opposed the rights we were advocating for, which is rare and very appreciated!
Here you can listen to the interviews Charlie and I did as well as some audio from the protest, at the 50 minute time stamp.
We had some amazing speakers and support, like Charlie Caine! (@CharlieXCaine on twitter)
And our pride team came together so well, cis and trans alike worked together to create something moving and impactful.
My thank you note from tumblr!
Check them out here:
The Protest against the exclusion of trans people from the conversion therapy ban went very well, roughly 200 people turned up – twice the amount of the last protest which also went extremely well – and there were some amazing speakers there, both trans people and cis allies. The run up to the event was somewhat draining for me and so I feel like my speech as chair of Norwich Pride’s Trans Advisory Group could have been a little better, but it still seemed to go down well. We had a fantastic song performance on acoustic guitar, and some fantastic on the fly speeches during the open mic session. Charlie and I also did interviews with Amy from BBC Radio Norfolk which will be coming out soon and I’m excited to share.
My Personal quote: “The government’s exclusion of trans people from the ban is deliberately malicious, but acknowledging that people deserve to be protected, they’ve admitted that they either don’t care, or want us to be mistreated with torture and abuse.”
I’m working with Norwich Pride in my role as the chair of the Trans Advisory Group to put together a protest this weekend, we’ll be protesting the governments complete lack of regard for trans welfare and their propensity for lies. Having agreed to ban all conversion therapy they then decided they wouldn’t (not the first time they’ve decided to renegade on a promise), eventually relenting to protect Lesbian, Gay, and Bi people under pressure – but having publicly admitted that it’s a torture that needs eradicating they refused to protect trans people despite them having a higher chance of being subjected to it. It’s clear, then, that they either have such disdain for trans people that abusing us is either a good thing in their view, or that we don’t qualify as humans and therefore it doesn’t matter if we’re horrendously treated.
There have been a lot of protests lately around this subject, huge ones that have real impact and I only hope that ours will uplift and inspire our local community, and assure everyone that there are people out there dedicated to equality and human rights.