If you're eligable to vote in the UK, please sign this petition by the 7th of April to allow trans people in Oxfordshire access to surgery - current guidelines prevent trans people from accessing the surgery on the NHS unless they are in so much distress they would be deemed unfit to have it anyway.

Also, please email OfCom and itv and tell them that the 'humour' in March 20th's episode of Moving Wallpaper was incredibly transphobic. I tried to watch the episode here. The transwoman in the episode is used entirely for laughs, mocked openly, has her pronouns and name messed with and the other characters go on strike rather than work with her... in only the first 5 minutes of the episode, I couldn't watch the rest.

viewerservices@itv.com

I am shocked and appalled at the transphobia directed at the transsexual character Georgina in Friday the 20th's episode of Moving Wallpaper. Transpeople often suffer a great deal of hostility and the 'humour' in this episode encouraged this, with the other characters referring to her as male, calling her 'unnatural' and striking rather than working with her.
If the minority in question had been different, would the humour have been acceptable? Referring to a gay character as 'unnatural' and muttered, disapproving conversations about his or her sexual practices would not, I hope, have been aired in such a fashion, nor a black character being used as the butt of endless jokes about her skin colour, nor would using hate speech to refer to a minority have been used with such abandon, as the word 'tranny' was in this episode.
I question ITV as to whether they want to encourage further mockery, hatred and exclusion towards a minority by giving a thumbs-up to the open disgust and cruelty that Georgina's coworkers demonstrate as being somehow amusing, especially as the behaviour of her coworkers is an unfortunately accurate representation of the experiences of some unlucky trans individuals.
I hope that ITV does not encourage hatred towards a minority again in its programming. 
Thank you for your time,
[Your Name

Finally, please use the template email here to write to the General Medical Council today or tomorrow and tell them to add training on to the student doctors' courses for LGBT patients, and add asexual to it as well, because if you're not straight you get some pretty odd assumptions and questions at the GP! 

And... another fuzzy animal story...



Mating attempts to prevent the blue duck from becoming extinct have been abandoned, since the last two males seem a lot more interested in each other than anyone else. Apparently they're "a lovely couple". :)