The British establishment has so clearly colluded to make sure we're given no quarter to advocate for ourselves. We're depicted, we're demonised, we're allowed to watch from the sidelines as two panels of cis people discuss with deceptive civility how to solve the problem that is our inclusion in society on their comfy news sofa - but if we take any action they can't spin into rationale for retaliation it's allowed to die in the wind.

We protest non-violently, it's seldom covered by our media. We respond to poorly informed reports whose conclusions about our healthcare implemented would lead many of us to despair, we're dismissed as biased. We organise one of the largest in-person parliament lobbying events in living memory, the domestic media leaves it for international outlets to report on.

But if we protest and leave a sticker reflecting our discontent? Trans vandalism, these sick people should just debate us. We speak too harshly against the people working incrementally towards our excision from society? Trans threats, these people are dangerous. We do a little bit of property damage so that literally anyone will pay attention? Trans criminality, maybe we need to bring the hammer down on them.

Meanwhile public healthcare for trans adults is a Kafkaesque endeavour in waiting lists which stretch on for years if not decades. Healthcare for trans youth is incrementally snuffed out entirely, and the data showing the rise in suicidality and self-harm consequent of that decision is suppressed. Trans people are quietly discriminated against such that many of us live in poverty, and despite that we're disproportionate victims of violence and abuse support is often inaccessible to us.

We're not going quietly into the night. We take actions to try and ensure that no member of our community goes without healthcare, we share resources to help each other avoid poverty, we offer each other support where nobody else will - but we won't lie back and accept the barbarity of society's reaction to us.

Intensifying action in response is a consequence of the fact that we've been given no air to speak, a consequence of the fact that despite our peaceful protestations and attempts at civil debate the assault on our participation in society at large is eroded away at further, a consequence of that we're given no other options.

It's only going to get more radical out there until society realises that we won't accept decisions made about us without us.

it's what homophobes and transphobes deserve

they gonna get proscribed now too?

That's going to work isn't it?