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Brass tacks: Building a trans inclusive movement
A central issue with fighting back against gender critical politics is funding and organisation. As has been repeated across the media this week J K Rowling has stumped up north of £70,000 in support of the For Women Scotland case, and with £10,000s more in support of the likes of Maya Forstater. Gender critics have backers with deep pockets, all of whom have kept their identities behind the scenes. The trans community and their allies have historically not had this level of funding, in part because the community has been small and in part because being trans has usually come with a degree of socially derived poverty. Here I want to break down the actual costs necessary to fight back against gender critical politics and how we can effectively go about both organising and raising those funds.
It is crucial to note that there are plenty of trans related grassroots organisations doing sterling work in their local communities and a handful of larger organisations such as Translucent who do advocacy work. What I am envisaging is something broader, deeper, and fosters a narrative of hospitality between transgender people and their cisgender allies. A trans inclusive movement needs research, court cases, policy documents, advocates getting in contact with lawmakers and civil servants, content creators, project managers, indeed a whole machine which costs time and…
