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ALT The NHS Wales Commissioning Committee has forced the Welsh Gender Service to suspend all gender-affirming surgeries. This nakedly cruel policy shift will wreak havoc on the lives of Welsh trans people. it will force patients into months of limbo that massively disrupt their lives, while NHS higher-ups take their sweet time to cook up yet another sham "investigation". at worst, patients will be driven into worse mental health and suicidality. despite government cover-ups, we all know the true statistics about our community.
ALT The Welsh gender care system, while not perfect, is one of the best in the uk, and delivered for trans people by collaborating with the community and with GP surgeries, proving that positive change is possible. This massive u-turn comes under pressure from the Welsh Tories, whipped into a frenzy by a terf blogger and Murdoch rag ‘The Times’, which claimed that wales having higher surgery referral rates than England somehow proves that harm is done. that’s all it took to obliterate healthcare for hundreds of trans people. one blog from a terf, and a single article from the times.
ALT The old rhetoric about “single-sex spaces” and “protecting children” is useless here, since this is about adults being denied their bodily autonomy despite it affecting no-one else. but it doesn’t matter, because they don’t need those pretences anymore to get what they want. They have all the institutional power and we have none. They’re on the offense, in the driver’s seat, mask-off and with the upper-hand. We can't afford to keep fighting within the rules of the system. we will always be disadvantaged as a working-class community fighting billionaires and the patriarchal state.
ALT while we admire the gains made by trans supporters working within the healthcare system to change it, we can all see how easily the attitudes of those in power change when abandoning trans people is convenient. Simply appealing to the better nature of those at the top still leaves the power in their hands to betray us later. We will only gain concessions through DIRECT ACTION. we must have our own organisations, our own healthcare systems, and strong mutual aid networks. the powers-that-be will not concede an inch until we are a coherent threat from below. We cannot afford to waste even a second when our survival is on the line.
ALT To Welsh trans people: we stand with you. we urge you to support and seek support from Trans Aid Cymru and any other local mutual aid movements. Find other radical trans people who can get you into networks of people actually trying to do things to claw us out of this mess. Check out our action guide and join BASH BACK.
ALT the british media killed jason arday. professor Jason Arday was hounded to his death by the British press for being black. we wish to send all our love to Jason and his family. the brutal campaign of abuse against jason arday was led by a white supremacist crank. yet instead of ignoring him, the uk media put his claims on every front page. They killed jason. there is a long history of marginalised people dying at the hands of britain’s press, including trans teacher lucy meadows, who was murdered by the daily mail for being trans. the media must face consequences.
ALT Quote from Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson: 'At the EHRC we want a society where everyone’s rights are respected and realised, so that we can all live well together. Our statutory guidance will help services across the country comply with the Equality Act, protecting service users from discrimination and harassment while reducing the risk of the provider being subject to litigation. As Britain’s equality regulator, our work doesn’t end upon publication of this guidance. We monitor compliance with the law and take enforcement action where proportionate and necessary, in line with our well-established regulatory model and decision-making framework.'
ALT what has been done so far and what you can do next
ALT actionists representing BASH BACK took ACTION against the EHRC’s welsh HQ, opposing their repulsive anti-trans ‘guidance’.
ALT Today, the EHRC ‘guidance’ comes into force. imposed by ministers without any democratic consent, the ‘guidance’ is a sham. ignore it. today, many trans people will feel scared and isolated. that is what the state wants. they want us to hide, to sit passively, waiting to be saved. but there is nobody coming to save us. we will save ourselves. that means trans people need to take action. see our action guide for advice, security info and vital info on how to bash back. they want us to be afraid of them. we must make them afraid of us.
