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Trans Rights petitions in the UK
Following the ridiculous and inhumane news out of the UK yesterday, two out of the top 3 petitions on the UK parliament petition site relate to trans rights:
ALTLet me point you in the right direction!
1. Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services
- Sign here
- See graph of signatures here
- Deadline: 28 July 2025
- Signatures so far: 24,709 of 100,000
2. Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender
- Sign here
- See graph of signatures here
- Deadline: 12 June 2025
- Signatures so far: 22,107 of 100,000
Who can sign?
- Anyone living in the UK, regardless of citizenship
- UK citizens living anywhere in the world
Glowing sky (1988) by Viktor Zaretsky
My Fireforse 2011, 2012, 2016
You want to call your House rep now and tell them Trump needs to be impeached immediately for defying a Supreme Court order (re: Kilmar Abrego Garcia), which functionally voids our constitution and means no one in America has rights anymore.
I am not exaggerating.
As of now, anybody can be disappeared, no due process, no recourse. Trump is openly disregarding a Supreme Court order and says he’ll send US citizens to El Salvador.
This is not a drill.
Call your House rep and tell them they must impeach. Tell them if they cannot bring themselves to impeach, they must resign. A more open and shut case to impeach is not possible. Trump and his administration are saying openly, in public, that anybody can be kidnapped by ICE, even in error, and disappeared permanently.
Call your senators, too, and tell them to support impeachment (it goes to them once it passes a majority House vote).
"Hello, my name is _______ and I am a constituent from _______. My address is ________.
I am reaching out today to urge Representative ______ to call for the impeachment of President Trump due to his refusal to comply with the Supreme Court's April 10th decision regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was unlawfully deported and has been charged with no crime. As Justice Sotomayor stated, this inaction implies the government's ability to 'deport and incarcerate any person, including U.S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene.' This precedent is unconstitutional, highly illegal, and grounds for impeachment. Every individual, regardless of immigration status, must be guaranteed a right to due process.
Representative _____, I urge you to stand on the right side of history today by calling for President Trump's impeachment. This administration can not be allowed to continue unilaterally defying the checks and balances that are intrinsic to our government."
You can also find your representative and senators and their phone numbers on https://5calls.org/
Please don't be afraid of calling. Your job would just be to be a data point, not to sound perfect. Here's some info on why calling is effective.
writetothem.com
i know you won't do this without a script so here's a couple of suggestions to include in your email:
Dear [Name],
I'm writing to you about the recent Supreme Court Ruling which declares that trans women do not meet the legal definition of woman, and that "woman" is legally a "biological woman", but which does not explain what "biological woman" entails.
As a [cis woman, this ruling leaves me less safe, emboldens violent bigots to potentially assault me because of physical features which do not meet their definition of womanhood, and places my transgender friends/family at even higher risk]/ [cis man, this ruling leaves my female friends both cis and trans less safe than they were previously]/ [trans person, this now leaves me at risk of assault every time I attempt to partake in normal public life such as shopping, eating in a restaurant, or going to work].
It is not based in science, and it is noteworthy to me that no transgender people were allowed to give evidence in support of their own legal identities. It aligns the UK not with the forerunners in human rights but with regressive regimes which our Governments, past and present, have rightfully denounced.
I am writing to you today to say that this ruling is politically motivated, prejudiced, and liable to fall in the European Court of Human Rights where it is almost certainly to be taken next, and to ask you to consider refusing to support any further attempts to exclude trans women from public life and basic human rights.
Regards
[NAME]
oh, the longer the waiting (complete!!!)
Vander/Silco | Explicit | Chapter 8 of 8 (COMPLETE! We made it!!) | Modernised Zaun AU, Single Dads Vander and Silco, maximum found family, background Jayce/Viktor + Cait/Vi + Powder/Ekko, old men flirting, slow burn, more local politics than you might expect in shipfic tbh | Ao3 links: start at the beginning; this chapter
Round two is, as promised, gentler.
Lazy leg-tangled graceless rutting, the slow rocking of tired bodies pressed close because it feels good to be close, because they can’t bring themselves to part yet. Comfortable, the kind of sex that people who’ve been married twenty years have when they’re both exhausted and needy, when together is the point.
Or so Vander thinks, anyway. He wouldn’t actually know.
What he does know is that Silco lets himself be kissed until they’re both giggling like teenagers getting away with something. What he knows is that wherever he puts his hand on Silco’s body, it moulds to shape like it belongs there. What he knows is that every new inch of skin he touches is a delight, every new sound a wonder.
to be honest there has never been a fictional character i’ve actually wanted to date. like. i want them to date each other. i don’t want myself as a person to be involved in this scenario whatsoever. what would i add to this narratively? what’s my thematic purpose in the narrative? immersion breaking.
some of you need to realize that your faves would be having unsafe bdsm sex because they don’t actually know what bdsm sex is, they just want to fuck and also kill each other. you must understand this.
And here is a Dream I painted for @circetovanaen, my co-author for A Midwinter Dream's Night, since we met for the first time today IRL, and I know how much she loves him^^
oh, the longer the waiting (ch 7)
Vander/Silco | Explicit (it is now!!) | Chapter 7 of 8 | Modernised Zaun AU, Single Dads Vander and Silco, maximum found family, background Jayce/Viktor + Cait/Vi + Powder/Ekko, old men flirting, what if there's no deadline on happiness, what if you're never too old or too broken for it, slow burn, fluff, more local politics than you might expect in shipfic tbh | Ao3 link
“Uhh. Hey, Vander,” Jayce says, filling the doorway in front of the stairs up to the Drop.
Upstairs, there are preparations for a surprise party going on. For Vander’s birthday. Which he had specifically requested there not be a fuss over.
He ought to have known better, of course. Vi wouldn’t be dissuaded, Viktor loves a challenge, and everyone else would naturally fall in with the force of one or other of their personalities.
“Hello, Jayce,” Vander says. “Sent you to keep me busy, have they?”
Jayce, not a man made for dissimulation, flushes to the tips of his ears.
“Yeah,” he admits. “Could you, uh. Maybe act surprised when you go up?”
“I think that could be arranged,” Vander allows. “How long are we meant to wait?”
“They said at least five more minutes?” Jayce says. “But, umm...” He looks over his shoulder. “Can I talk to you a minute? Really, I mean.”
Watercolors
Top Photo - Yashica Yashinon-DX 100mm f/2.8
Middle Photo - Minolta MC Tele Rokkor-QE 100mm f/3.5
Bottom Photo - Minolta MD 50mm f/1.2