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Trans-support group: Children’s Hospice run is ‘dehumanizing’
Police are investigating a reported ‘hate crime’ in the form of a charity race for Derian House Children’s Hospice in Lancashire.
The children’s hospice offers: ‘Respite and palliative care to children [and] young people’, some of them ‘desperately sick’, according to a spokesperson.
The run is a first for the hospice: in that it will be all-male. Men will dress up as dames in pantomime tradition; it has been dubbed ‘Dames on the Run’. The run is scheduled to take place on October 11.
‘We wanted to provide an opportunity for [fathers] to participate in a fun-packed event and encourage other men to show their support and raise vitally needed funds for the hospice,’ a spokesperson for the charity told the Mirror.
But Chrysalis, a local trans-support group, are quoted in the same publication as saying the race is dehumanizing: ‘We get enough confusion with the word transgender, which mixes us up with transvestites.
‘Transvestites certainly don’t dress for comic purposes and I don’t get up in the morning and think” “what can I put on today to give people a laugh?”
‘This race pokes fun at cross-dressing and, by association, us, reducing us to objects to be laughed at.’
Holmes told Gay Star News, however, she has not contacted by the police or by Derian House.
‘On Thursday a girl pointed out to me that Derian House were organizaing a fun run – no mention of dames or anything at that time.
‘I read that Susie Poppitt, who is head of fund-raising at Derian, said that “what can be more fun than men dressed as women having a laugh.”
‘That comic purpose rather struck a chord – it demeans me as a woman by saying there’s something funny about being a woman.
‘In a press release I suggest they look at alternatives. A race, for example, where people turn up in Victorian fairy costumes.
‘I think the whole thing has been blown out of all proportion. It has also been very upsetting: reporting that Chrysalis would do something so vile like report [Derian House] to the police.’
Lancashire Constabulary have been reached out to for comment.
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Jack Flanagan
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