Championing Respect and Understanding for the Trans Community
- London, United Kingdom
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Throughout June 2025, in celebration of Pride month, Gayther is running its Straight Talk campaign. Weekly media releases designed to highlight key aspects taking place around the world today. This release focuses on the transgender community.
For the past two years, there have been active campaigns targeting the transgender community around the world. Campaigns are often built around misinformation, exaggerated statistics, lies, and a perceived assault on societal values that do not exist and are not happening.
In reality, these campaigns are being used as political weapons to distract the general public, often highlighting and exaggerating the words of a small group of advocates. These advocates are frequently used to showcase the community to others, with their words and their meaning being manipulated and distorted to fit a particular political narrative.
The undeniable truth is that the transgender community is small, estimated to be no more than 494 thousand or 0.01% of the population around the world, made up of people who know only too well their gender at birth, and the majority pose no risk or threat to society.
For the past two years, there have been active campaigns targeting the transgender community around the world. Campaigns are often built around misinformation, exaggerated statistics, lies, and a perceived assault on societal values that do not exist and are not happening.
In reality, these campaigns are being used as political weapons to distract the general public, often highlighting and exaggerating the words of a small group of advocates. These advocates are frequently used to showcase the community to others, with their words and their meaning being manipulated and distorted to fit a particular political narrative.
The undeniable truth is that the transgender community is small, estimated to be no more than 494 thousand or 0.01% of the population around the world, made up of people who know only too well their gender at birth, and the majority pose no risk or threat to society.
“Our identity is how we would like others to see us and is not an affront to conventional definitions of gender; more evolving understandings that reflect a more modern and progressive society,” says Peter Williams, co-founder of Gayther.
Though there are differing levels and stages involved in transgender transformation, one this is clear: it is not done on a whim.
People often have to undergo years of therapy, psychological evaluations, usually self-fund expensive medications to boost estrogen or testosterone, and years of often painful surgeries to help them achieve on the outside how they feel on the inside.
People often have to undergo years of therapy, psychological evaluations, usually self-fund expensive medications to boost estrogen or testosterone, and years of often painful surgeries to help them achieve on the outside how they feel on the inside.
The fears and so-called threats to society’s traditions and way of life are not based on reality but on false narratives and clickbait stories. The subject and scenarios may, at their core, highlight important issues and areas that need to be discussed and explored further; however, many are not specific to just one community or group. Issues such as safety in public toilets, fairness in sports, and assaults taking place in prisons are all valid societal issues, but the risks and perpetrators are certainly not exclusive or isolated to just one group.
The ultimate question behind the political agendas and narratives is, how do you police it? Do you allow women to question and evict or deny entry to non-conventional looking women or masculine transgender men, who most would be unable to identify as anything other than how they look, and who have the right, under their definition, to be there and under these new laws and definitions would be forced to use the women’s toilets?
The reality is that those headlines and stories are less about solving complex issues and concerns and more about peddling misinformation that plays on fears and ultimately distracts the masses. Those who believe that saying that today you feel feminine or masculine makes you transgender are wrong and misinformed. Being self-aware should not be a crime or a point for attack, and though, in this scenario, the person is more likely to be non-binary and not transgender, as the road for a transgender person is long, complex, and often painful for many.
The ultimate question behind the political agendas and narratives is, how do you police it? Do you allow women to question and evict or deny entry to non-conventional looking women or masculine transgender men, who most would be unable to identify as anything other than how they look, and who have the right, under their definition, to be there and under these new laws and definitions would be forced to use the women’s toilets?
The reality is that those headlines and stories are less about solving complex issues and concerns and more about peddling misinformation that plays on fears and ultimately distracts the masses. Those who believe that saying that today you feel feminine or masculine makes you transgender are wrong and misinformed. Being self-aware should not be a crime or a point for attack, and though, in this scenario, the person is more likely to be non-binary and not transgender, as the road for a transgender person is long, complex, and often painful for many.
“Many governments around the world have directly and indirectly declared war on the transgender community. Allowing targeted laws and permitting discrimination and hate against vulnerable people and bear the responsibility for all those in the transgender community living in isolation and fear today.”
The way we identify is personal, and whether the law acknowledges a person’s identity is only part of it. For all of the clickbait and stories, use critical thinking and ask yourself, who is the source? How many people are talking about? and use your judgment. How many transgender do you personally know, and if we allow these targeted campaigns to continue, who will be next?
Only if it is safe to do so and you are not putting your life or freedom at risk, comment on stories, contact the representatives, question groups, charities, and news outlets you support why they are not doing more, and help stop the unnecessary fear and persecution of a vulnerable and typically isolated group of people.
Only if it is safe to do so and you are not putting your life or freedom at risk, comment on stories, contact the representatives, question groups, charities, and news outlets you support why they are not doing more, and help stop the unnecessary fear and persecution of a vulnerable and typically isolated group of people.
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REFERENCES AND SOURCES
- 2025 Worldwide LGBTQIA+ Gender Identity Recognition (https://gayther.lgbt/community/gender-identity/)
STRAIGHT TALK CAMPAIGN
JUNE 2025 | #StraightTalk
Throughout Pride Month, Gayther is carrying out the Straight Talk campaign. Each week, we will release a new press release highlighting a key issue or topic. In a world where the truth can be ignored and where clickbait and misinformation seem to prevail, being direct, stating the facts, and highlighting the truth is now more important than ever. Watch out for or sign up for notifications for upcoming releases throughout June.
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