Anyone else’s work celebrating trans week/day of remembrance?

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We are. I’m not exactly sure what it entails or what we are remembering, and haven’t dare ask.

It seems like blind faith drives these things. I’ll try not to disturb anyone with questions or facts.

The civil service often do a single candle burning sort of picture like the armistice. Lest we forget. As if any of us ever can.

I am so tempted to respond "Thoughts and Prayers " but that might get me kicked out of my work women's group, which thankfully still remains woman focused.

My old work were admirably devoted to THE ACTUAL BUSINESS and had vanishingly little of this type of thing. If you were civil, professional, and diligent that was all they cared about.

This is actually a really good point.

I wonder what the response would be if you gave some feedback saying, "I think this is in poor taste given that the number of trans people murdered in the UK is less than one per year on average and the best data we have indicates that, Brazilian sex workers excluded, trans people actually appear to be less at risk of being murdered than any other demographic. By contrast, in the UK, two to three women are murdered every week by their male partner, around 250 people are stabbed to death every year (of which around 40% are teenagers or young adults, mostly from disadvantaged backgrounds), and further afield we are witnessing an actual genocide playing out in real time in the Middle East. Since we are not having remembrance events for any of these groups of people, I can't help but question why we are having one for a group of people who are not actually being killed in statistically significant numbers. We have members of staff who are Muslim and Jewish, and no doubt female members of staff who have been the victims of male violence. Perhaps the diversity, equality and inclusion team should think about including those people from time to time instead of just focusing on one group."

At least you wouldn't be in danger of setting off the smoke alarm.

@MargotBamborough I'd love to be brave enough to post that, but I'm too young to retire, and too old to be fired.

I'm just so sad because this rubbish is being posted by people who have previously been quite senior in our women's group, I can't believe such seemingly intelligent people genuinely believe this.

Ah, but then after your moving ceremony where precisely one candle was lit, you could then send an enthusiastic email to the head of DEI saying that since the candlelight vigil for trans murder victims was so successful, you'd like to hold one for women killed by male violence next month. Then wait for them to say you can't do it because lighting that many candles would be against the fire regs.

'Belief tree? What the hell - is this in nursery? Or are actual adults doing this?'

I KNOW!!! It's all so childish. I used to work in nurseries, with children who need a lot of help with navigating relationships and boundaries, because they're CHILDREN. So we used to use phrases like 'gentle hands Tommy' and 'we are KIND to our friends, Jaimie'. All perfectly fine when it's tiny children, but now I see the same crap being directed at adults, with #bekind, and trite nonsense like 'in a world where you can be anything, be kind' 🙄🤢

Hah. May dig out my finest mourning black for the occasion

I hope your work celebrate other days too. Fml. For example, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is coming up on 25 November. And don't forget international women's day.

They want those too.

Yes. Don’t forget all the women 🙄 wheeled out for these occasions.

In Canada they have a person who pops up at such days (including the memorial day of the shooting of only women at a university campus - where men were told to leave by the shooter).

I'd put a tag on the tree "Celebrating the trans community being the safest demographic in the UK"

Yes that was one of the biggest indicators that the mood has definitely changed.

This unwarranted victim-martyr complex looks even worse in the current context.

No. It’s times like this I’m thankful I work in an industry where this sort of thing doesn’t even enter our radar.

We come in to our job barely interact with anyone outside our own team then go home.

We've got belief week.

Begs the question why such a week is needed in the first place. 'You WILL believe! You will, you will, you will!'

Don't believe? You're a heretic.

I've never in my life seen a 'belief week' devoted to any other ideology, including the monotheistic religions. This is really desperate stuff.

Social engineering. I refuse to play.

@JaxiiTaxii you must post a pic if you wake the tree

This thread keeps giving me an earworm of (I thought I’d left it behind at school, but apparently not 😬). I don’t think that even if they believe really hard & wish on ALL the stars TRAs are going to get the genital swapping surgeries they’re now being promised are just around the corner 🤦‍♀️

"Trans awareness week" neatly contains international men's day on 19th.

Slightly different but on the agenda for DH's work's big departmental meeting was an item called 'show and tell'. A point where each of them were supposed to say a bit about what they were doing. He has no idea why it was called that. Almost all his colleagues were educated overseas. He brought in his childhood Teddy bear. Got a special mention from the Director for 'his sense of humour'. (Subtext probably: the British have a sense of humour but nine of us understand it.)

Go for the green and purple decoration. Better still find a fairy for the tree that looks like Posie/Marilyn and give her a Standing for Women TShirt.

Better still find a fairy for the tree that looks like Posie/Marilyn and give her a Standing for Women TShirt.

That's a great new product idea for KJK and SFW!

I'm not sure how much they actually believe, versus how much they think they are supposed to say and do all this shit to prove how nice they are. There seems to be a few bad actors, and a whole lots of neutrals going along with it or not challenging it for an easier life (I'm in this group).

I work in a small charity (the charity sector is rife with this crap), and it's mainly one women who is pushing this heavily - despite our charity being about a condition that is nothing to do with sex or gender. I just try and ignore but she seems to bring it up more and more, like she's on a mission.

I'm not sure how on board the CEO is really, however like you said if you question it you are immediately a bigot and horrible person.

We don't have this nonsense at my work thank God. Everyone in there is pretty sane of mind. Long may it last.

It would be such a beautiful decoration too