TransActual need to hear from you. The Trans Lives Survey 2024/25 is now open and your answers will be used to write a report. Take the survey by clicking the link in our bio or by typing in: https://buff.ly/3ZNjAnh
By filling out the survey you can also be entered into a draw for £150 worth of Love to Shop vouchers, able to be used at many major high street shops!
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For TransActual, the risks associated with not taking part in the survey are far higher than trans people spending 20 minutes of their time to complete the survey.
For more on our views on the survey, go to: https://transactual.org.uk/nhs-england-survey-2024/
Our reasoning: If we and you, and our friends and family don’t respond to the survey, the only people completing it will be those campaigning to take our care away. If the data only shows the views of the tiny minority of people that regret transitioning, or of friends and family members who would have stopped the trans person in their lives from transitioning if they could, then the report into the survey will definitely be used to restrict our access to care.
If, however, we do take part in the survey, our views will be collected. This data, the data that represents the experiences of most trans people, will have to be included somewhere in the survey report. So, even if the report is flawed or its findings ignored, we will at least be able to highlight that. If we are listened to, our experiences could influence improvements to NHS transition-related care. A big ‘if’, but we if we don’t take part, our views will definitely won't be heard.
NHS England have launched a survey for adults who are using an NHS England gender clinic or have in the past 5 years. Given recent experiences with consultations, it could be tempting not to engage. But we do we encourage trans adults in England to take part (reasons in the thread below).
You'll find the survey https://nhs.welcomesyourfeedback.net/s/93arah
Initial comment on puberty blocker ban:
Banning medicines with no evidence of serious harm, only for trans people, using powers designed for contaminated and life threatening drugs, is discrimination plain and simple.
It's #HumanRightsDay and yet today thousands, probably millions of people worldwide will be having their human rights violated. Our solidarity extends to them all, but especially to our trans siblings - internationally as well as in the UK.
You can read more about global human rights in relation to trans people in UN OHCR's article: 'The struggle of trans and gender-diverse persons'.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/ie-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity/struggle-trans-and-gender-diverse-persons
