Owen Blacker

Tagged “open letter”

  1. Writing to the Women and Equalities Select Committee about trans rights

    The government has announced another transphobe as their preferred candidate to lead the “Equalities and Human Rights Commission”…

  2. Writing to my MP about trans rights ...again

    Less than 6 months ago it was puberty blockers, now it’s the Supreme Court with some outrageous bullshit. So I’ve written to my MP again.

  3. Writing to my MP about trans young people

    The Northern Ireland executive has permanently banned the use of puberty-blockers to provide gender affirming care to trans adolescents. So I’ve written to my MP again.

  4. Complaint to the BBC about transphobic ‘journalism’

    I’m sure most readers will have seen some of the recent transphobia, now emanating from the BBC, as well as the rest of mainstream British journalism. So I made a complaint to the BBC, making sure to reference the appropriate BBC Guidelines. (It’s a lot of them.)

  5. My response to the NHS PrEP consultation

    NHS England is consulting on the provision of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV; the consultation ends next Friday (23 September 2016).

    The team at United for PrEP, a collection of HIV/AIDS charities and service organisations, put together a response guide to help people reply to the consultation. My answers below are heavily based on their guide; you can provide your own response using their online form.

  6. HIV entry barriers and why they are stupid

    Here in the United Kingdom, our Parliament is currently debating an Immigration Bill. It left the House of Commons last week, but not before a group of 18 Conservative MPs attempted to amend the bill to prevent the entry into the UK of people infected with HIV or hepatitis B. As my own MP was one of the cosponsors of the amendment, I figured I should write to him, in an attempt to educate him further.