hey! donate to uk trans charities today because it’s gonna be a rough one
Folks in the UK, could we have some trusted links to charities?
There’s Mermaids which is always a great option, and then Scotland-specific there’s LGBT Youth Scotland, to give you just a couple. There will absolutely be more that other people can suggest though!
trans aid cymru is a mutual aid group rather than a charity but ill always shout them out for wales specific trans community support! they have a donation page here
Scottish Trans Alliance do good work, and more locally to me and also locally to the evil billionaire funding so much of this (we are deeply uneasy neighbours I live in constant fear of seeing her) and also Parliament, Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh do a lot of community work. Resistance is everywhere, both national and local, official and grassroots, and if you have no money spare to donate then you can donate time, if you have neither you can - you Must - reach out to even just one trans person near you, because community starts with smiling at your neighbours, knowing names, noticing if they’re struggling. I survived thanks to one queer person I never knew the name of and spoke barely one sentence to taking 10 minutes out of their day to drop off an LGBTQ youth centre flier for me back in 2016. It starts small. It moves mountains. We are not budging an inch. I love you.
crazy crazy work every time a very sensible “hey, the creator of this thing is a powerfully harmful person and continuing to positively engage with their product makes you complicit in that harm” take comes down and the Tumblr Brain Trust pops out in the reblogs to be like “guys, don’t be scared! this person is being hyperbolic, they don’t mean it! what they mean is keep engaging with the horrible thing you enjoy, but be sheepish and cute about it, and keep reiterating that you’re liking it ‘the right way, to spite the creator’! nothing will change but you’ll continue to be able to stay comfy in your fandoms while posturing like you care! hope this helps ♥️”
“the best way to screw jkr over is by making her characters queer!” actually. The best way to screw jkr over is to stop engaging with the property she still profits off of and read a different fucking book
