Our Bandcamp Page: tincanaudio.bandcamp.com

Gendered Intelligence: https://genderedintelligence.co.uk/index.html

Small Trans Library Glasgow: https://smalltranslibrary.org/

Apologies for the mini feed drop, I try to avoid these things as much as I can during a series release.

At the end of 2022, the Scottish Parliament finally passed the long awaited Gender Recognition Reform Bill, a bill that makes the process for legally recognising a trans man or woman's gender slightly more straightforward and more respectful, bringing Scotland in line with the United Nations international practice and adopted by 30 countries, including most of the United States.

The UK government announced yesterday that they would be blocking the bill from becoming law, effectively undermining the Scottish government's decision and actively choosing to make the lives of trans people more difficult.

Putting aside the constitutional and political issues that this causes. This decision to use trans people as a political football and treating them as a threat to be contained rather than, you know, people, means that being trans in Scotland is going to be difficult and exhausting for the next while, as if it wasn't already.

All of this is to say that, for the rest of the month, I will splitting the money from Bandcamp sales between Gendered Intelligence, a grassroots organisation that works to increase visibility and understanding of trans people, and Small Trans Library Glasgow, a mutual aid organisation in the city where I live.

If you can, please consider buying something, like a season pass for The Tower or the soundtracks to Part 1 & 2. Or, even better, consider donating directly to the organisations mentioned, I'll put links in the shownotes.

Thank you for listening, and stay safe out there.

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