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Today (February 27) the trans grassroots organisation and healthcare fund We Exist is holding a star-studded event to raise urgent funds for trans people in need across the UK. Titled Trans Day of Joy, the event was “conceived out of the fact that all other significant days in the calendar for trans people are often based on our trauma and not on our joy,” We Exist tells Dazed. “We wanted to make an event that focuses on trans excellence.” Accordingly, Trans Day of Joy brings together a stellar, all-trans lineup of performers, musicians, filmmakers, and artists from its trans residen...

2020 was a particularly hard year for the trans and non-binary community. Not only were we struck by the morbid, isolating restrictions of lockdown, but we faced increasing global violence (particularly against trans people of colour), transphobic tirades, and the implementation of devastating policy by Liz Truss. Now, against the advice of healthcare professionals, court orders have halted puberty blockers being given out at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust (the London-based Gender Identity Development Service), thereby restricting the access of these drugs to under-16 trans youths. Amid ...