[UK, Public Post] Announcing the Trans-Community Activist Network

[auntysarah.livejournal.com]

As the protest by trans people and allies outside Stonewall's annual awards ceremony last month showed, there is a groundswell of energy amongst grass roots trans people in the UK, many of whom feel disillusioned and unrepresented by the LGBT "establishment".

There was considerable activity online prior to the demo, mostly on Facebook, which proved useful as a tool to organise and spread the word. However, Facebook is not an ideal discussion forum, for technical reasons (it doesn't lend itself to the sort of things a web forum does well), and because there were a number of people intent on disrupting the discussion.

With that in mind, some of the participants in the Stonewall demo, as well as other interested parties, entered into some email communication, which was also less than ideal, before coming up with the idea for a web-forum, dedicated to grass roots trans-activism.

With this in mind, I am very pleased to announce the Trans-Community Activist Network forums, or T-CAN (catchy, eh?).

These are moderated forums open to all interested in grass roots trans activism, and you are very cordially invited to join us at:

www.t-can.org.uk