Name/TitlePlacard: Trans Rights Are Human Rights
About this objectDouble-sided cardboard placard decorated in paper, pastel and pen, and hot glued to a wooden stick. One side of the placard features a heart in the colours of the trans flag over the background image of a saltire. The slogan inside the heart says: 'Trans Rights Are Human Rights', while the other side says 'Sunak Sucks' in pink letters. Collected from a protester at the Trans Rights Rally in Glasgow, 21st January 2023, who said: "My sister Pepper drew this sign for me after seeing one of the other signs one of my friends had made."
MakerPepper
Maker RoleCreator
Date MadeJan 2023
Period2020s
Place MadeScotland, Glasgow
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, cardboard
MeasurementsH: 295 x W: 200 mm (placard only)
H: 1005 x W: 200 mm (incl. pole)
Subject and Association KeywordsHomophobia, transphobia
Subject and Association Keywordsgender & sexuality
Subject and Association KeywordsPolitical activism
Subject and Association KeywordsTrans rights
Subject and Association DescriptionThe Trans Rights Rally at the Buchanan Galleries steps, Glasgow on 21st January 2023 was organised in protest after the UK Government moved to block Scottish gender recognition reforms that would allow trans individuals to obtain a gender recognition certificate (GRC) without a medical diagnosis in Scotland: https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottish-news/23267156.rally-trans-equality-takes-place-glasgow-city-centre
https://www.parliament.scot/bills-and-laws/bills/gender-recognition-reform-scotland-bill:
The Bill changes the process to get a gender recognition certificate (GRC). A GRC is a certificate that legally recognises that a person’s gender is not the gender that they were assigned at birth, but is their “acquired gender”.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypePlacard
Object numberGWL-2023-12
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved