FIGHTING FOR TRANS RIGHTS IN A FAR-RIGHT NATION

Posted on April 28, 2023 by Norwich Radical in April 2023, Perspectives and tagged activism, Alister Jack, anti-vaccine, bbc, bnp, Boris Johnson, Brianna Ghey, Covid-19, daily mail, discrimination, drag queens, ehrc, far-right, fascism, featured, gender recognition reform, government, HOPE Not Hate, lgbtQ+, LGBTQ+ rights, liz truss, mainstream media, media transphobia, migrant rights, norwich, Norwich Trans Pride, patriotic alternative, racism, Section 35, Sophie Labelle, Telegraph, Tories, trans rights, transphobia, uk.

By a Norwich LGBTQ+ activist

CW: references to transphobic policy and rhetoric, neo-nazi ideology, far-right violence

Last August, The Norwich Radical published coverage of a drag queen storytime event at the Millennium Library. The event was targeted by far-right organisations, and defended by a much larger group of LGBTQ+ Norwich residents and allies. Since then, far-right protestors in smaller numbers have attempted to disrupt more LGBTQ+ community events in the city. Meanwhile, the government has continued to ramp up anti-trans rhetoric and policy, aided and abetted by the bile of the mainstream press and the complicity of so-called ‘gender critical’ figures in academia and popular culture. This is more than a ‘minority concern’. It is a large-scale civil rights struggle against an establishment more fascistic by the day.

NORWICH DEFENDS DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR – DISPATCHES FROM THE ANTIFASCIST COUNTER-PROTEST

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged activism, alt-right, Bradley Walsh, conspiracy theories, Drag Queen Story Hour, drag queens, far-right, fascism, featured, gender critical, LGBTQIA+, Neo-Nazis, norfolk, North Walsham, norwich, patriotic alternative, police, queer solidarity, racism, Titania Trust, trans rights.

By The Norwich Radical Editorial Team

In the process of putting together our reporting on the far-right presence and pro-LGBTQIA+ counter-protest at Storytime with Auntie Titania in Norwich last Wednesday, we received a number of accounts from people who attended the counter-protest. We were not able to reproduce all of those accounts in our original article, but we believe that they offer valuable insight into the events in question, the strength of LGBTQIA+ solidarity in Norwich, and the lessons that can be taken forward from this action. This article reproduces more of the content of those accounts, with small edits in places for clarity and to maintain anonymity.

WE ARE NOT YOUR BOGEYMEN – NORWICH RESISTS THE FAR-RIGHT IN SOLIDARITY WITH DRAG STORYTIME

Posted on August 20, 2022 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged activism, alt-right, bnp, Bradley Walsh, Chris Mitchell, conspiracy theories, Drag Queen Story Hour, drag queens, far-right, fascism, featured, gender critical, Jeff Marsh, LGBTQIA+, Mark Collett, Neo-Nazis, norfolk, North Walsham, norwich, patriotic alternative, police, queer solidarity, racism, Steve Blake, Titania Trust, trans rights.

By Anonymous

Content Warning: descriptions of fascist violence & racist ideology

Following the anti-LGBT protest outside a Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) event in North Walsham library on 2^ndAugust, a new event, titled ‘Storytime with Auntie Titania’ and featuring local drag artist Titania Trust, was scheduled for August 17th at the Millennium Library, Norwich. A counter-protest gathered outside the library on Wednesday ahead of the event to defend the national DQSH initiative and protect attendees from the presence of far-right protestors.

TRANS WOODSTOCK

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged AOC, Casey Explosion, Chuck Tingle, Contrapoints, Dan Olson, defunding, Donkey Kong, Ellen Murray, featured, fundraiser, funds, Graham Linehan, Grant Kirkhope, Harry Brewis, hbomberguy, Jim Sterling, John Romero, lottery, Lyndsay Ellis, Mara Wilson, Mermaids, Natalye Wynn, Oliver Thorn, press, Rebecca Hineman, Scotland, stream, Susie Green, terfs, trans, trans rights, videogames, Youtube.

by Zoe Harding

This is the face of a man who’s entirely unsure if what he’s experiencing is real.

It started with this. Well, okay, it started with this, which itself was just the latest flex of the UK’s weirdly obsessive and powerful transphobia lobby, personified by eh-alright-but-his-work-is-aging-fast comedy writer Graham Linehan. Plenty of people were annoyed or upset by the campaign of email-writing and general loud airing of concerns that led to the National Lottery pulling £500,000 worth of funding from Mermaids, especially given that the reporting of the issue in the Great British Press was… kinda shite.Continue Reading

TRAILBLAZING – NUS IMPLEMENTS TRANS OFFICER POSITION

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives, Student and tagged further education, higher education, inclusive curriculum, LGBT+, liberation, Noorulann Shahid, NUS conference, nus elections, NUS NEC, trans healthcare, trans officer, trans rights, trans-inclusive sport, transgender.

By Noorulann Shahid, NUS LGBT+ Officer (Open Place)

The year is 2014. A group of trans activists are standing huddled around an iPad in a small room filled with baggage at the University of Nottingham. Glances and expressions of hope, determination and anxiety shoot around the room. I can see the focus in my peers’ eyes. I hastily jot down some notes, soon after which we scatter back onto the conference floor. There is a sense of tension and seriousness in the room as delegates wait to debate a highly-anticipated motion. When the motion is finally called out, the trans rep on NUS LGBT campaign committee delivers an impassioned speech for the creation of a full-time NUS Trans officer.

TRANSGENDER RIGHTS: THE BOSS AND BATHROOMS

Posted on April 16, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged American Airlines, anti-discrimination legisaltion, Apple, Bank of America, bathroom bills, Bruce Springstein, discrimination, Donald Trump, gender, gender politics, gender-identity, Google, legislation, Marriott Hotels, NBA, NCAA, North Carolina, Paypal, Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, sexual assault, sexual harassment, ted cruz, Tennessee, The Boss, trans, trans rights, transgender, transphobia, US, US presidential election, USA, Wisconsin, women, Xhamster.

(Trigger warnings: Transphobia)

by Zoe Harding

You wonder where the hell they find these people sometimes.

Two weeks ago, one of the Tennessee state lawmakers pushing an anti-transgender rights ‘Bathroom Bill’ through their state legislature was exiled from his offices and denied access to several other areas of the legislative building on the grounds that he posed ‘a continuing risk to unsuspecting women who are employed by or interact with the legislature.’ Last year, former presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee told the 2015 National Religious Broadcasters that he wished he’d been able to pretend to be transgender in high school in order to shower with the girls. (Additional trigger warning: What.) Oh, the sexual assaults he could have committed if there was a legal loophole to allow it.

And these are the people pushing laws supposedly aimed at protecting American women and children from sexual assault. Americans are rallying behind real sex offenders to try to stop imaginary transgender sex offenders.

trans rights

FIGHTING FOR TRANS RIGHTS IN A FAR-RIGHT NATION

By a Norwich LGBTQ+ activist

NORWICH DEFENDS DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR – DISPATCHES FROM THE ANTIFASCIST COUNTER-PROTEST

By The Norwich Radical Editorial Team

WE ARE NOT YOUR BOGEYMEN – NORWICH RESISTS THE FAR-RIGHT IN SOLIDARITY WITH DRAG STORYTIME

By Anonymous

TRANS WOODSTOCK

TRAILBLAZING – NUS IMPLEMENTS TRANS OFFICER POSITION

TRANSGENDER RIGHTS: THE BOSS AND BATHROOMS

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