If this is what the poster advertises...

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... what is your best guess as to what ideas they are promoting to the young people who attend.

I've been around MN since this was all fields, but have obviously name-changed for this. (It's also my first post on FWR, so please be gentle.)

I'm heavily involved in a community-run project which has a public notice board. A little while ago, a poster was put up by one of the volunteers which advertises a group for children and young adults, saying something like:

'support for people aged up to 25 who identify as transgender, or as non binary or who are questioning their gender identity'

I am involved in working out what our policy should be about the posters we display, and I would like to advertise things that are genuinely useful to people in our community. I am trying to balance the idea of free speech with promoting what I feel are damaging ideas to vulnerable young people. (Yes, MN peak transed me a long while ago...)

Before I go in to talk this through with the people making the policy, is it safe to assume that this group will be on board with Mermaids, Stonewall, et al? My guess is yes, because it's all average life expectancy of an American transgender woman is her mid-20s kind of information, but I don't know for sure. They also do stuff with LGB issues, but the T stuff seems fairly dominant on the website, and this poster is specifically on this issue.

Secondly, assuming that free speech will trump misinformation to children and young adults, from which organisations would it be good to put up information as a counter-balance, if I'm allowed?

Any ideas?

I would say that being helpful person I am I would seek other informative bigger posters to put ontop along side that one

I’m big advocate in promoting about mental illness awareness especially for youngest. There is no real point of direction other than go gp get on waitlist to camhs. So many websites have posters with helpful rescourse so could this be a important focus rather than being seen as big bad wolf and hater

Thanks, I like your idea about a mental illness awareness poster.

I wish I could find some local group who are helping children in this situation but I can't find anything.

Have a look at TransgenderTrends website they might be able to help.

I have only started reading up as I want to be armed with alternative, as still waiting for my local county council educational dept to get back to me with answer if they been stonewalled’ with their —bullshit—literature. As my youngest will not be attending those lessons if they are.

So I’m (still) reading up on this
schoolsweek.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Transgender-Trend-Resource-Pack-for-Schools.pdf.

Also youngminds website see any resources their. Thing with mental illness by pushing in that direction it does not excluded anyone or pin point any select group. You can take it in endless directions.

Hard to explain what I mean as I’m not very wordy.

But the only way of getting around this so it doesn’t cause ‘you being a trans or gender fluid hater’ is promoting something else.

My spelling & gramar crap sorry

Can you put a poster up for 4th wave now

Do transgender trend and 4th wave posters, how can they object? They also help families with kids identifying as transgender

When you discuss a policy around posters, can you insist that all groups who put up posters must comply with basic safeguarding practice in the way the group is run?

Surely nobody could object to this.

Then you will have a basis for objecting to any groups which encourage keeping secrets, or buying medication off the web, etc.

MrsAird that's a thought