Eli

Trans man living w/ HIV • Twitter no longer in use, see pinned

[Eli @positive_trans]

u can find me here & here….I’m out (it was fun & thanks for listening to my queer trans positive rants over the years)

[Eli @positive_trans]

We are here, literally right here and we exist.

@ funders: fund our projects, our research, and ensure it’s trans led - we know our community better than anyone else

@ HIV sector: stop ignoring us, stop looking over us, and start uplifting and meaningfully engaging us

[Eli @positive_trans]

where we are pushed into the margins of society, where funders care only about the numbers for project while refusing to fund the research; it is on all of us to ensure that trans men are not continuously ignored any longer in global HIV responses. 2/3

[Eli @positive_trans]

Despite it being 7am, the session on Trans Men & HIV was genuinely life changing. Knowing that there are other trans men living with HIV is one thing, but actually hearing from them and speaking with them is so vitally important.

In a world where transphobia is on the rise 1/3

[AVAC @HIVpxresearch]

"As a trans man living in Uganda, I am asking you to stop leaving us behind. Nothing about us, without us." Jay Mulucha of @femauganda, who is the first trans man to speak at the AIDS meeting, highlights the erasure of trans men in the #HIV community.

[Eli @positive_trans]

Gathered my thoughts; 1) thank you again Jay for speaking and for the change I hope you bring and inspire to this sector, community and world. 2) @iasociety you have had 39 years to do this, come on now - genuinely what has taken you this long? We exist, always have, always will

[Eli @positive_trans]

speechless at how empowering it was to see Jay speak so publicly & to have a voice from our community so often shut out and disregard, finally having a voice centre stage & also to finally be in the same room as a trans man living with HIV. It meant the world, thank you Jay!

[Eli @positive_trans]

@SarahGibsonLD As my MP can I get your help and support to remove these barriers for young trans people? Ensuring access to gender affirming healthcare is available, time efficient and accessible for all who need it

Happy to help educate and inform where needed

[Eli @positive_trans]

Wes, your decision as a politician is a political decision; decision to stop access to life saving treatment is a political decision and when we inevitably see more trans youth die at the hands of your political decision; that is a political death prescribed by you and your party

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

Puberty Blockers. A 🧵 

Children’s healthcare must always be led by evidence. 

Medicine given to children must always be proven safe and effective first.

I know there’s lots of fear and anxiety. 

Let me explain why this decision was taken.

1/9

[Eli @positive_trans]

You uphold the barriers to care, you uphold a system of abuse, a system of gate keeping.

A system designed to protect no one, at a very high cost; both in lives, and in the need to access further NHS services into adulthood - when both could’ve and should’ve been preventable

[Eli @positive_trans]

Also on this because yes - if trans kids are offered PB, they are more likely to prioritise taking care of their overall health into adulthood, including sexual health.

Trans affirming care IS HIV prevention

[The Love Tank @TheLoveTankCIC]

HIV PrEP is a reminder of what happens when folx are prevented from accessing medicines: people find work-arounds, develop mutual aid schemes, & sometimes end up using those meds sub-optimally & unsafely.

@wesstreeting puberty blockers are suicide prevention & harm reduction.

[Eli @positive_trans]

Every single death of a young trans person, I expect you @wesstreeting to personally attend the funeral.

You ‘talk’ to trans communities, then see the aftermath of your choices & sit with their friends & families. Knowing this was preventable, it was ur choice, ur politics

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

Oh look - someone who's actually gone to the trouble of talking with trans people when talking about trans issues! It can be done! https://t.co/HveoXfi8OR

[Eli @positive_trans]

I’m so tired but I don’t think i’ll ever get to re-experience the joy of watching Michelle Donelan lose her “pre-planned safe seat”

[Eli @positive_trans]

@graceyswer More than happy to!!

[Eli @positive_trans]

I’m sorry but actually this isn’t okay and it isn’t right - and yes it’s a devastating loss but I’m looking at these posts like “a void we need to fill” or “let’s make something similar” like - we don’t need to have a void to fill, we don’t need something similar - we need the…

[Eli @positive_trans]

maybe I’m just mad because what will be here in 10/15 years time when we are back at square one w no information, no resources, no support - because it was “a devastating loss” we can’t continue to lose our access to a better future by simply normalising our acceptance of loss

[Eli @positive_trans]

We lost a young adult project, that worked and changed lives because it wasn’t “fundable” and now vulnerable young ppl are without. We lose accessible information, and it’s all of us who lose out. We lose charities year by year and we sit back and say “this is devastating” ….

[Eli @positive_trans]

@GarryBrough I’m in!