Trans kids deserve Better: Drop the Ban

'The children are always ours’ - James Baldwin

All kids deserve life, a future and a present, childhoods and adolescence and adulthoods shaped by love, marked by joy, and full of possibility. The recent decision to permanently ban puberty blockers for trans youth (and trans youth only) shows yet again, that our government doesn’t think the above is true for trans kids. Which means they don’t believe it’s true for trans people.

Dignity is not the preserve of adulthood: respect kids, listen to them. If this is the season of giving, then start by giving a shit: Fight for trans kids. Protect trans kids. Love trans kids.

Begin with and email to your MP and @wesstreeting to demand they lift the ban on puberty blockers and offer trans kids the same access to medical care as their cis peers. It's 10 minutes of your day, you can do it.

Not sure how puberty blockers work/what they are and why they have been banned, Ellen Jones has written a brief overview HERE. And there is a terrifically written piece on trans healthcare

Need some guidance on an email? The Sparkles Charity made up these templates.

If you're local to Edinburgh, get involved with Resisting Transphobia In Edinburgh (rTiE website) If you're further afield Step up, the kids deserve so much better.

If YOU are a trans kid who needs some feel good trans writing, use the code: TRANS-LOVE-ALWAYS at checkout to get 40% off any of the titles below, and if you're broke just use PAY-FORWARD-SOLIDARITY to get the books free.

(If you have cash, and want to chip in to pay-it-forward, you can do that HERE.)