Trans allyship: a thread. I've been asked to speak on panels about trans activism a lot the last few years, esp through pride month. One question I *always* get asked is: what can people do to be in solidarity/allyship. I've been asked it year on year on year:

But let’s also be clear: you cannot legislate trans people out of public life. You can make our lives harder, but we have each other - we always have. We will continue to fight for each other, and protect & celebrate each other.

Solidarity with all the trans women whose lives, in particular, are about to get harder in accessing essential services for healthcare, housing, domestic and sexual violence. Shame on those so hardened in their souls that they want to make material conditions worse for women.

It’s really giving Mary Richardson and the Suffragette to British Union of Fascists pipeline ( https://t.co/JP9IZ20wbx)

I grew up in the feminist tradition that my biology doesn’t, & shouldn’t be weaponised to, define me or my access to public & private life. Sadly, some feminists align themselves with conservative far right values & it’s a powerful alliance. A sad day for feminist movements in UK

Thoughts on recognising systems of violence on Trans Day of Remembrance ‘most of the TDOR recorded deaths are Black, migrant women of colour, sex workers, from the global south; their deaths the result of intersecting forms of poverty, racism & violence’

The Trans Agenda (tm) This is what we are fighting for.

Packed out @GlastoLeftField tent for the Justice for Grenfell @GrenfellUnited @NMRLPH

Wow this is so good. Appreciate that someone finally said it publically. Thank you @zoesqwilliams Why are trans rights in prison so rarely defended? | Zoe Williams

Fighting Fascism in Feminism Read the @briarpatchmag article by @ChanelleGallant here: https://t.co/9tUYWtTSqP

silenced / (ˈsaɪlənst) / Adjective When an adult human female is given unprecedented press coverage and speaking opportunities following publicised declarations of wanting to eradicate trans people from public life

Fighting fascism in feminism: how feminism and fascism are aligning through anti trans politics and what to do about it. With @ChanelleGallant @razorfemme @EliErlick @CeciliaGentili and Woods Ervin for @briarpatchmag

So the police are institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic. Lots of people call for reform, but it won’t work. Read this to understand why: Over-policed and Under-protected: why does nothing change? https://t.co/dZx8m3mkXY

New York: Mars is getting its North American premiere at TriBeCa in June - go see it!

Excited to share that Mars is having it's North American premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Festival ✨ See you in June at #Tribeca2023 🚀 Big love all the amazing cast and crew 💜❤️@ChrisBushWrites @AbelRubinstein @yungblud @Yazdemand @LeahChoudhryx @NMRLPH

I really hope we are able to build stronger movements of solidarity and don’t internalise the narrative that this is about some of us and not all of us, while focussing our support, protection and resources on those most under attack in this moment /8

I’m the UK if they’re able to advance the legal definition of sex play, it not only renders the Gender Recognition Act impracticable, it also creates an opportunity to blow the entire Equality Act open - attacking protections for all covered in it now. /7

Increasingly fascistic political powers, using other political players as pawns in strategic moves to remove rights for most of us and increase control. They use fear as a tool for a reason; greater control of people and narratives. /6

But, it’s also about creating a wedge to move the Overton Window on the perception of Rights legislation as a whole to weaken the social and legal position of far more than trans peoples lives. It’s a tool to remove checks and measures like human rights legislations by /5

This is a war on trans people and we have to fight it on that front as it makes our daily survival acutely more precarious, I am more fearful now in the day to day then I’ve been the last 5 years and I’m not a trans woman who most of this hate is targeted at. /4

Even outside of law most of the terms of reference that proposed anti-trans legislation is based on in the UK and US is undefinable in a fixed or applied sense by most people; try defining sex, gender, drag, in a group of ppl and see how many answers you get. /3