London Trans+Pride 2024: Date, theme and route
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The theme of this year’s parade is ‘Justice and Liberation’ standing for trans+ rights and in solidarity with Palestine, Sudan, Haiti and Congo.
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Hide AdLast year the march was attended by 40,000 supporters and this year organisers are hoping 50,000 people will attend for the event’s sixth anniversary.
When is London Trans+ Pride taking place?
London Trans+ Pride parade will take place on Saturday July 27, with marchers advised to meet at Langham Place near Oxford Circus at 1pm.
The march will depart around 2pm and end in the green around Wellington Arch at 4pm. Speeches will commence at 4.30pm, and the event will end at 6pm.
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Hide AdMarchers are encouraged to bring signs, banners, flags, face masks (with a limited supply from the event), as well as flowers, friends and earplugs if necessary.
‘Justice and Liberation’ theme
“This year's theme is in response to the ongoing injustices and atrocities happening across the world”, the founding member of London Trans+ Pride Lewis G. Burton said.
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Hide Ad“2024 has seen a rise in attempts to back-pedal the trans+ community’s human rights,” organisers said in statement,
This includes the Conservative government’s recent policy on “gender ideology” to no longer be taught in schools.
Elsewhere, the Cass report, an independent review into the provision of healthcare for trans youth in England, this week urged clinicians to use “extreme caution” when prescribing puberty blockers to youngsters, and has raised big questions about the future of trans healthcare.
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Hide AdBrit Award nominee Kae Tempest said: “London trans pride has given me so much. It’s been an important moment of strength gathering for me, as I continue on my journey towards living truly, as myself.
“Walking through London all together, we can feel a deep sense of community, acceptance, shared pain and celebration that rouses the spirit and soothes the soul. To be able to encounter and affirm each other this way is beautiful and important.”
Model and activist Munroe Bergdorf said: “Every London Trans Pride I attend is even more empowering and galvanising than the last. During these trying times for the UK trans community, LTP is a much needed ray of hope.”
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