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Dear UK residents. I’m sorry to be tedious, but I’m going to do the trans Cassandra thing again.
The government is now moving towards regarding trans people as effective children until the age of 25.
This will be established as precedent and then used to screw over any and all young adults who can’t escape from abusive parents, especially young women.
If you want to do anything about this, you need to fight for trans people. Yes, you. Now.
We all know that isn’t going to happen to any significant extent though.
As you were.
@JamieR@toot.wales@goatsarah my daughter is trans. She knew from about the age of 14 that she was trans. When we looked in to what she could expect through the NHS, we knew she’d be well in to her 20s by the time anything happened. #notgoodenough
On a side note, we have found that the whole of friends/family/friends of friends have been super supportive with very little negativity. Even in the heart of the Welsh valleys 
Some idiots threatened violence because “trans” but … they learned
One of my daughters is trans too, currently transitioning. She is a British citizen but we live in France - as you can imagine, the legal transition has been complicated! - but I have to say the French health service has been great (as it is in every respect, as far as I know).
We too have found family and friends supportive. My wife was very worried about telling her mother - elderly and very conservative - but her positive reaction surprised everybody. One of the first things she said was that she had some understanding because there had been a trans character in one of the UK soaps she watches - which shows positive media portrayals really do help people.
@GeofCox @goatsarah my father-in-law (I’m a widower now) is in his eighties and deeply religious, I expected some sort of ‘issue’ but he’s been very accepting too. I realise that not everyone is this lucky, and that there is still a lot of prejudice in the world, but so far, we’ve found very little resistance. Thankfully