Nottingham Against Transphobia

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New EHRC guidance coms into effect. Don’t panic. NAT has all the information you need No change to the law The law has not changed you still have the legal right to access to access facilities that match your gender under the gender reassignment section of the Equalities act 2010, The gender recognition act 2004, and articles 2, 3, 10 and 14 the European convention on human rights (ECHR). Although the guidance will make it more difficult to take action against service providers who break the law. Guidance for service providers The guidance does not affect the way any service user/ customer should behave. You should continue to use the facilities you feel comfortable with. Anyone challenging you is harassing you/ committing a hate crime and should be reported to the venue owners/ the authorities. You don’t have to prove your gender Members of the public must not challenge you at all, venue owners must accept what you say your gender is and can not ask you to prove you assigned sex at birth in any way. Making someone genitals the topic of discussion is sexual harassment. Don’t Panic Nothing has changed about the way you should live your life. Fear mongering about what has actually changed will do more harm the guidance its self. Don’t give them what they want. Being trans and joyful if our most powerful act of defiance.
An Amnesty International report into anti-rights organisations has been removed after pressure from JK Rowling’s legal team. The report focuses on far right Christian pressure groups and the negative effect they had on women’s rights and women’s healthcare. This is a blatant attack by JK on all women. The original report has been archived in its entirety, and is free to read at the link in our bio. https://tinyurl.com/5xzvvhz4
A Handmaid’s Tale for the Modern Age: are YOU feminine enough for the LWS Gender Police? The goal of this event was to make the public aware of the opposition trans people face every day, just living our lives. We went out for coffee with friends, we went clothes shopping, and continued living our lives as normal. Meanwhile, members of transphobic hate group LWS Midlands gave the public a firsthand look at the violence and hatred directed towards trans people. LWS turned up with signs, blocking access to the women's toilets, reportedly misgendering uninvolved cisgender members of the public. When asked if they had seen a trans woman attempting to use the women’s facilities, the group gave a resounding “we don’t know”. When in doubt, they’ll cast you out! Just like the proposed EHRC guidance, this group of so-called “feminists” targeted women they deemed to not be following ‘traditional gender roles’. This action exposed what WILL happen if this dangerous guidance advances further in parliament. Women, cis and trans, will be denied the basic right of accessing these facilities, for not dressing or acting in a “feminine enough” manner like they were on the 13th. This event was not a protest, we weren’t chanting, we weren’t waving signs, we just lived as normal. We hosted a day of trans joy and unity, which was STILL interrupted by groups who oppose us existing in public life. We’d like to thank the Victoria Centre for having us, and for hiring additional security to ensure that all shoppers were kept safe from members of LWS, who have previously been the subject of news articles for injuring an NAT Leader in front of several witnesses. Victoria center have expressed an interest in discussing continuing safe access for shoppers in future. NAT will seek to arrange a meeting with Victoria and other stakeholders in future. Deepening ties between local businesses and trans advocacy will help NAT move forward in its goals of making Nottingham a sanctuarycity
Nottingham Against Transphobia want to hear what you have to say about the latest EHRC guidance. We urge you to come and speak at our protest at the Brian Clough statue this Sunday, the 7th of June. Nobody should face this depressing news alone. Use your voices, join us and speak, make yourselves known.
Nottingham Against Transphobia are appealing for additional marshals, first aiders and legal observers ahead of our anti segregation protest June 7th If you’d like to volunteer please message the inbox.
May 2nd Nottingham Against Transphobia will be taking part in the Trade Union Council’s May Day march and rally. Join us and other allied unions in celebrating workers’ rights and fighting the expansion of the far right. Meet us at the Brian Clough Statue 11am
The EHRC is set to introduce guidance that would enable prejudice business owners and charities to limit trans people access to gendered space soon. This would make it more difficult for already vulnerable people to safely access work, education, charity support and public life in general. NAT wants you, the trans people and allies of Nottingham, to make our voices heard, to wave your banners. To show that we exist and the bright joyful contribution we make to society and what it will be missing without us if we keep being exclude by legislation based on misinformation and hatred.
Another government consultation. This one will have a heavy impact HRT prescriptions. Please fill it out if you have the time. https://www.gov.uk/government/calls-for-evidence/private-non-nhs-prescribing/private-non-nhs-prescribing-call-for-evidence-document
While we all enjoy living our lives and celebrate with pride, we cannot forget that Stonewall, the start of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, was a riot against police weaponising sexual violence against trans women, like the British Transport Police are threatening to do now in light of the inconsistent, dangerous guidance issued by the UK Supreme Court. This pride month cannot earnestly be a month of celebrating queer lives without the following pressing issues being addressed: • UK government departments are currently working with ‘sex matters’ an organisation dedicated to ‘reducing the number of trans people,’ while simultaneously shutting out trans voices; an egregious violation of the “nothing about us, without us” principle which remains a cornerstone in preventing violence and medical violence against disabled and minority communities. • Despite numerous peer reviewed studies stating trans women hold no physical advantage over cis women after a certain point of HRT, trans women are still being barred from sports - including sports such as darts, pool or chess, where physical attributes are largely irrelevant. • Trans people are being de facto banned from public spaces by criminalising trans dignity. The ability to safely use toilets without fear of harassment or violence is critically necessary for both work and education. • Civil service employees being prevented from supporting the LGBTQ+ community by arbitrarily banning pride or trans-coloured lanyards in order to “save money,” while government finances continue to be thrown away on CEO bonuses for mismanaged water companies illegally dumping sewage. • Trans people are regularly denied access to domestic violence shelters and survivor’s services. Nottingham survivors are lucky to have pro-trans survivor’s services available to them – it is critical that this minimum standard of care is extended to trans victims of violence across the country. • Medical violence and withheld care is responsib…
With less than a month to go, download festival have announce they will be banning trans gender people from the bathrooms that match their gender presentation creating massive safety and dignity issues. Download have chosen to implement proven abuser Kishwer Falkner's interpretation of the recent supreme Court ruling and not the ruling itself that states: 'It is not the role of the court to adjudicate on the arguments in the public domain on the meaning of gender or sex, nor is it to define the meaning of the word “woman” other than when it is used in the provisions of the EA 2010.' Bands have already started to hit back against the organisers stating “If the only way we can piss is by outing ourselves then you’ve created an unsafe environment"
After an appalling case of a teacher accessing sensitive data about a student and transferring it to a non-secure network, but judge uphold their dismissal as lawful adding: transitioning children should have anonymity over their true biological sex "for life" to respect their privacy and ensure their future safety. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gre53drqvo
Nottingham Against Transphobia welcome the banning of politicians from pride. All parties have failed us. All can stay home. Labour won't stand up to genocide in Gaza, will brutalise those seeking a better life during a skills shortage in sectors like care, will inflict insane hardship on the disabled rather than tax the greedy and will betray trans people to their deaths. The conservatives and reform are promising our eradication while cribbing policies from the Nazis. Greens are riddles with transphobes and Lib dems have backtracked on supporting us like the spineless cowards they are. If no party will stand with the LGBT community, no party should get to march with us.
It's the anniversary of the first Nazi book burning 92 years ago today, the Nazis targeted the Hirschfeld institutes library and destroyed the collection of research on gender affirming treatments for trans patients and sexuality. The burning of this library set back trans healthcare by decades. This was the first and leading clinic for trans healthcare Today the British government denys trans people healthcare in different ways - 13 year waitlist, employing anti trans activists to review study's on trans healthcare, banning puberty blockers for trans children but not for cis children, ect ect Today the British government walks in the footsteps of the Nazis, trying to mark all trans records with a pink star and the courts have ruled that under the equality act we are effectively not equal This slow genocide doesn't have camps, it doesn't happen quickly, it happens slowly, a slow erosion of rights We have survived worse and will survive again, but when it's over and we count the dead, at what number will you be able to say you spoke out?
A colourful poster advertising a Placard Making event run by Nottingham Queer Mutual Aid, taking place at 7-9pm at By Our Hands in Sneinton Market on the 25th of March
A poster for Nottingham Against Transphobia's counterprotest of Kellie Jay Keen's visit to Nottingham next month KJK Counter Protest 2 Friday 28th Feb, 4pm Speakers Corner, Nottingham Last time we peacefully outnumbered her ten to one. Join us to once again demonstrate that bigotry is not welcome in Nottingham! (Includes a picture of Albert Einstein pointing at a scowling Posie Parker, with the quote often attributed to him of "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results")