What do you want to achieve as a trans organiser in Greater Manchester?

Bringing community together

Celebration

Show of solidarity and strength

Resistance to increasing structural and institutional transphobia

Changing how institutions and businesses treat marginalised people

Awareness raising

Creating specific/safe spaces and opportunities for trans people

In sport

In nightlife and entertainment

For that space to be inclusive of disabled people

To ‘access community care, peer support, and advocacy work for benefits, employment, education, medical apts etc’

Better sex education

Fundraising directly for other trans people in the community

Support for housing insecurity

Fundraising for individuals

Co-operative housing project

What are the barriers that stop you from achieving what you want to achieve?

Volunteer capacity and struggling to find core organisers

“We are all overloaded and tired!”

This came up again and again

Financial barriers

Funding events while keeping financial barrier to entry low – recognising that trans people often have less access to funds so knowing the importance of keeping resources, events, low-cost.

Not being able to pay staff or collaborators

Lack of time due to needing to spend more time working

Structural disempowerment as trans people and small organisations

Harassment from the government

The police as an obstacle

Higher education being profit based and expensive

Discrimination “i.e. transphobia, transmisogyny, transmysogynoir, lack of awareness and support for disabled trans people, discrimination based on protected characteristics in general”

Having to rely on personal connections

Not being able to find suitable, accessible venues

Not knowing where to promote events to other trans people

Disability and higher support needs impacting all plans

What is your vision for the world you want to live in?

Safety and peace

Ending violence against minorities and discrimination in any form

Financial security and eradication of systemic transphobia

Having needs met “such as housing, healthcare, transportation etc”