Statement
PCS Proud condemns in the strongest terms the recent announcement that Wes Streeting intends to make permanent the ban on the use of puberty blockers in the treatment of young Trans people pending an immoral, unethical, and unworkable clinical trial that could take years. This ban is in defiance of
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Every Transgender Day of Remembrance, we commemorate the trans lives that were lost this year through violence, either by murder or by their own hand. This year so far 350 trans people have been murdered, for no other reason than they are trans. More than one a day. In the
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In July, several young trans+ activists occupied the ledge of NHS HQ in London to challenge the ban on puberty blockers as well as the numerous restrictions trans kids experience to get the healthcare they need. Now they are occupying the front of the Department of Education building in London,
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PCS Proud commends the actions taken by #TransKidsDeserveBetter. As minors of an already vulnerable demographic, they have been at the brunt of vicious reactionary policies against which they have been denied a voice. Denying them a voice means action has become an inevitability as they fight the entirely ideological denial
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The recent blog hosted on our union’s website titled “Words for Lesbian Visibility Day 2024” contains inexcusable language that breaches our union’s equality policy as well as conference policy. This blog gatekeeps lesbianism, and implies those with a differing view of the label should utilise a different one.
