Sam Parr

Educator and activist, with a specialism in active bystander intervention and LGBTQ+ inclusion. he/him

[Sam Parr @samjdparr]

@uniofwarwick SU statement: "the organised racist and Islamophobic riots that have taken place across the UK" vs.
University statement: "acts of disorder in some parts of the UK"

Disappointing @uniofwarwick

[Sam Parr @samjdparr]

@TransLucent_Org @moira_robin @GillianKeegan Your commentaries are such a balm in the face of this nonsense we're forced to endure.

[Scott Cuthbertson @ScotCuthbertson]

We lost so many LGBTQ+ people to the silence of Section 28 and then they spent two decades saying sorry.

Their sorry was meaningless and now they have once again decided to silence the next generation of LGBTQ+ people.

We must be their voice.

[Kate Osborne @KateOsborneMP]

Section 28 tried to eradicate the gay community by stopping talking about us.

It didn't stop us existing - just stopped us getting help.

20 years since it was abolished they are now trying to effectively ban trans kids from existing - it won't work & it will just damage ppl.

[Sam Parr @samjdparr]

"It means the government has issued guidance its own lawyers made clear would likely lead to schools facing legal challenges that they would lose. Other warnings included the department itself would lose a legal challenge over aspects of the guidance."

[Schools Week @SchoolsWeek]

Exclusive: Schools face a 'high risk' of successful legal challenges if they follow several elements of today’s controversial trans guidance, advice written by the government’s own lawyers reveals

https://t.co/zeTrsmy1Bz

[Stonewall @stonewalluk]

The UK Government’s draft trans guidance for schools does not put the best interests of children first, and as such is simply not fit for purpose.

Our full statement ⬇️
https://t.co/rFLO4YL30i

[akt @aktcharity]

Ivy came to akt after receiving transphobic abuse from her parents

78% of the young people akt works with cite familial abuse or rejection as the main reason for their homelessness.

🚨Donate to help us bring LGBTQ+ young people in from the cold

🔗https://t.co/9GihK2nzuz

[Galop @GalopUK]

Galop's statement on the non-statutory draft guidance for schools and colleges on gender questioning children

[Sam Parr @samjdparr]

@conrad_roeber @PompeySteph It’s not hard to see why you can ‘find’ one of these things, when you deliberately misinterpret normal experiences like contact with other trans people, and questioning society’s expectations.

[Sam Parr @samjdparr]

@conrad_roeber @PompeySteph By social contagion you mean contact with a trans person. By discomfort with stereotypes, you mean the realisation that gender stereotypes are just that, stereotypes (with the compounding factor that the gender they’re expected to perform l stereotypes isn’t even their gender).

[Sam Parr @samjdparr]

@SamFowles @AdamWagner1 @moira_robin Fantastic news. Read the Government’s justification in sheer disbelief.

[Sam Parr @samjdparr]

@tiredtransmed @UKLabour @AnnelieseDodds So what would your criteria be?

[Sam Parr @samjdparr]

@tiredtransmed @UKLabour @AnnelieseDodds So in your view a trans person is allowed to change their documents if others consider them to 'look like' a man/woman?

Yet the existing process you support is a medical diagnosis on the basis of 'a desire', 'a wish' and 'a sense' & no photo of the person etc. goes to the GRP

[Sam Parr @samjdparr]

@TheShadow142024 @Matthew_Hodson @YouGov Full results are here: https://t.co/FW4AQH5qp4

It's 3% of cisgender LGBTQ+ respondents that prefer LGB, and 2% of trans respondents. There were 824 cisgender respondents, and 145 trans respondents.

[Sam Parr @samjdparr]

@tiredtransmed @UKLabour @AnnelieseDodds ... as congruent as possible with one's preferred sex."

So 'a desire', 'a sense of', 'a wish to', 'preferred'... and yet you're railing against the idea that being trans is self-declared.

[Sam Parr @samjdparr]

@tiredtransmed @UKLabour @AnnelieseDodds The ICD-10's 'Transsexualism' is defined as "A desire to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex, usually accompanied by a sense of discomfort with, or inappropriateness of, one's anatomic sex, and a wish to have surgery and hormonal treatment to make one's body...

[Sam Parr @samjdparr]

@mattsmithetc reading your YouGov article on usage of variants of the LGBTQ+ acronym, and wondered if you could explain why the gendered breakdown of a queer community survey was done by 'sex at birth', something which will misgender almost 15% of respondents, even with GRCs?

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

If this Government’s outright onslaught on British liberties - restricting our right to protest, robbing millions of workers of their right to strike & stripping back human rights doesn’t terrify you it damn well should!

If you watch just one thing today please make it this!

[JOHN NICOLSON 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @MrJohnNicolson]

Judges yesterday were sharply critical of the sinister ‘LGB Alliance�� over its history of abusive behaviour. I wrote to the Charity Commissioner for England asking how on earth the ‘Alliance’ could have met the tests required to become a charity.

[Sam Parr @samjdparr]

Join us for our #Pride festival in #Coventry tomorrow (Tuesday), 2-8pm!

All local LGBTQ+ people and allies welcome. Ginny Lemon headlining, funfair activities, facepainting, food vans, photobooth, crafts... Full details at https://t.co/LnAmJvWwJm.

#WeAllBelong at Pride!