Happy #LunarNewYear from everyone at TransActual 🎉 🐉🏮 Wishing you success and good fortune this year of the Dragon, but most importantly we're wishing the best year possible for all those who celebrate.
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If you are a trans women or non-binary person aged 40 or older, use your experiences as a patient and a trans person to shape a new research project to improve the detection of prostate cancer in people like you. You don’t need any specialist knowledge, just join an online meeting in February 2024. And you will be paid for your time. Email [devon.buchanan@nhs.net] to express interest.
“I play a game on the console to vent frustrations of the day, I then relax in bed by reading and discovering new music. It’s nice to have other worlds and emotions to explore”
What's a game you play to vent or relax? 🎮
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Today is #SelfCare Monday, here's some advice from Athiette: “I moderate my twitter usage, only look at news sites twice a day, try to make connections with people who will be supportive, and indulge in cute things as I find them.”
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Wendy Carlos won multiple Grammy awards for pioneering the use of synthesizers in her music. She composed the original soundtrack for Tron. She also happens to be trans.
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“Every child has the right to express their views, feelings and wishes in all matters affecting them, and to have their views considered and taken seriously.” Article 12, UN Rights of the Child
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"Suspension of puberty is not only not unethical: if it is likely to improve the child's quality of life and even save his or her life, then it is indeed unethical to defer treatment." -Dr S. Giordano, Journal of Medical Ethics
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Your voice matters. Take a moment to take part in the Patient Experience of Diagnostics Survey and help our friends at The Patients Association improve diagnostic services. It's not a trans specific survey, but so important that trans people's voices are heard: https://bit.ly/3GlGxEr
All East would like to hear from members of the trans community to help design a new specialised sexual health service for trans, non-binary and gender diverse individuals in East London. Please scan the QR code or click the following link to share your views: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/trans-shs
We've got a great Saturday afternoon watch for you today. Take a look at this episode of In The Know with Kay Ulanday Barrett, Chella Man and Aaron Rose Phillip - they're focussing on intersectionality in the queer community.
"I'm a GAMP, and it's not a writer's cramp that makes me wanna be amp about it—I'm a straight, undefeated champ who don't need a snide Virgin Mary bigot or a lick-spigot vamp to question either my pride, my mastodon feed, or my literary, noumenon handstamp."—Max R. J. Ovbi
“On a good day I catch a glimpse of myself, a reason to grin. My smile feels like a blessing, permission to enjoy my existence and embrace the coming day.” Isolde
What helps you embrace the days, even on a cold and wintry Thursday?
“Getting now to work as an artist and a musician in hours that work for me, looking after my disabilities in a life that is queer and fulfilling is wonderful, and every single trans person should be afforded the same feeling of love and respect.” Emory
I never thought I would get the chance to be where I am now, at 26, with my transition and my disabilities, so now I look forward to what aging will be like for me.
Perhaps it's silly, but I think it's important that trans people get to enjoy ageing, even if it's normal for everyone to say things like “Don’t grow old.” I want to see what it's like.