Family Collection
OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, THEIR LOVED ONES, THEIR CARERS & THEIR PROTECTORS
There’s no denying young trans people are at the centre of transphobic bullies’ hypocrisy. The banning of puberty blockers for trans kids under the guise of being unsafe, whilst still available for cisgender kids going through early puberty, is proof enough.
But don’t let the media fool you. Despite the cruelty of centring trans youth at the heart of the UK’s culture wars, trans kids are busy being kids. They’re joining art clubs, staging their own protests, coming to Pride rallies (with or without their families, just like other teenagers) and playing with friends just like them.
What the UK media would have us forget, is that transphobia doesn’t only affect trans kids. It affects their school mates, their families, their carers, their teachers, their neighbours…
The beauty of the overwhelming number of heartwarming objects representing profoundly meaningful moments where families show their unequivocable support for trans siblings and children provides ample real-life evidence of just how many of us care about deeply about the wellbeing of trans children.
They are the future of gender liberation for us all.
Photograph: Henri T
Family Collection
A selection of items relating to families and childhood
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Not Alone Printed On Handheld Trans Flag
MOT/2024/NDOTC/PLYM/025
Tag Small trans flag with screen printed not alone fro Not Alone Plymouth, a trans and nonbinary support groupd. It was handprinted by Juliet. Trans, nonbinary + progree flags were passed out _ flown in the Plymouth Pride March. August 2023
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Family
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 15 cm Width 21.5 cm
A poster with "Not Alone" text on a transgender flag background, featuring a note attached.
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Pair Of Green Tights
MOT/2024/LTMLTS/011
Tag These green tights were my 'hair' as a child, and in retrospect my first experience of ✨GENDER EUPHORIA✨
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- Collection
- Letter To My Little Trans Self
- Categories
- Family, Fashion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
A pair of dark green opaque tights. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
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Photograph Of Little Kasra At The Beach
MOT/2024/LTMLTS/019
Tag Photograph of me, age 5, taken by my dad, on the male side of a gender segregated beach in Iran in 2000.
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- Collection
- Letter To My Little Trans Self
- Categories
- Family, Photographs
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 100 mm Width 152 mm Depth 1 mm
A young, dark haired child wearing white shorts lies on a red, slatted, wooden sunbed on a sandy beach. Their legs are crossed at the ankles and their hands are behind their head. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
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Pink Plushie Toy
MOT/2024/NDOTC/DUND/042
Tag CUTE CUDDLY PINK SQUISHMALLOW GIVEN AWAY FOR FREE BY TRANS ALLIES TO COUNTER-PROTESTERS AGAINST A TRANSPHOBIC "DEBATE" ABOUT TRANS YOUNG PEOPLE IN SCOTTISH SCHOOLS. THERE IS NOW 100+ TRANS SQUISHMALLOWS IN DUNDEE'S TRANS COMMUNITY! <3
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Family
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
A pink and purple plushie toy which looks like a very round cat.
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Placard - I Transitioned At 16. I am 30. Listen To Trans Kids.
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LOND/046
Tag "Proud, Jewish & Trans" and "I transitioned at 16. I am 30. Listen to trans kids." Trans Pride London placard from 2023, made at Retro Bar
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- Collections
- National Day of Trans Collecting, Placard & Banner Collection
- Categories
- Family, Placards
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 295 mm Width 423 mm Depth 5 mm
A white, cardboard placard with the text "I TRANSITIONED AT 16. I AM 30. LISTEN TO TRANS KIDS" in blue, black and green. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
MOT/2024/NDOTC/EDIN/056
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Placards (x4) - Trans Liberation Now, Protect Transgender Youth (Sheild), I love girl Cock, Trans Fucking Rights
MOT/2024/NDOTC/EDIN/056
Tag Tag 1 - "TRANS LIBERATION NOW" Hand-painted Protest Sign "Tag 2 - Protect Transgender Youth" Hand-Painted Protest Sign Tag 3 - "I ♡ GIRL COCK" Hand-Painted Protest Sign Tag 4 - "TRANS FUCKING RIGHTS" Hand-Painted Protest Sign
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- Collections
- National Day of Trans Collecting, Placard & Banner Collection
- Categories
- Family, Placards
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Placard- Trans Liberation Now Placard - Protect Transgender Youth (Sheild) Placard - I love girl Cock Placard - Trans Fucking Rights
- Dimensions
- Dimension Description All four placards Height 45.5 cm Width 64 cm
A placeholder image that is an illuminous green background and the black outline of a tag.
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Plaster Hand
MOT/2024/NDOTC/DUND/008
Tag Plaster cast of owner’s hand as a 10 year old, mallorca in 2011. Represents me figuring out my identity as a 13 year old. Important to me because I fixed it up from a broken state, during a time in my life I also felt fragile. This was the same year I met my internet friends who were my first trans support network, who helped me pick my name + still support me to this day. The date of donation (20/4) is the date I came out to my family in 2016 + the date of my first gender clinic appointment in 2018!
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Family, Artwork
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 12 cm Width 7 cm Depth 6 cm
The image shows a hand cast with "They Them" written, accompanied by a handwritten note.
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Prince shaving cream tub
MOT/2024/NDOTC/NORW/011
Tag The first pot of shaving cream I owned, bought for me by my older sibling in 2017 as a gift to celebrate starting testosterone. It took me six years to use it all.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Family, Bathroom / Beauty
- Place
- Norfolk Heritage Centre, Norwich
- Dimensions
- Height 20 cm Width 20 cm Depth 5.2 cm
A black tub of 'Prince' Shaving Cream from Lush. There is a brown tag with writing on it next to it.
MOT/2024/NDOTC/DUND/006
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Quilt Made Up Of Various Embroidery and Patches Including Vagina Motifs
MOT/2024/NDOTC/DUND/006
Tag "My Insides Are Made of Thread" 2018. This quilt is made up of individual experiences and memories hand stitched together as a representation of how I experienced community and my own transness at a time when I had no community other than crafting. Making this quilt helped me to cement my identity in a sea of others, and overall represents everyone who has ever felt alone. CRT
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Family
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 161 cm Width 123 cm
A placeholder image that is an illuminous green background and the black outline of a tag.
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Rebekah's Secret Grandpa Book By Andy Thornton
MOT/2024/NDOTC/BRIS/005
Tag I wrote an illustrated this children's book about a trans Grandpa for my final major project on my art foundation at Oxford Brookes in 2014. I reasearched so many "ftm" people wanting it to be accurate and representative. I didn't make the viewpoint character trans as "I wasn't trans"…. good one. Looking back, all of that research was for me. I wanted to represent older trans people who we often don't see. But I also wanted to know I had a future. I told the first person ever that I might be a boy in the last week of the course.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Family, Publications
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 214 mm Width 216 mm Depth 3 mm
Photograph of the book 'Rebekah's Secret Grandpa' by Andy Thornton which shows an illustration of a young person with long brown hair and an older person with grey hair and glasses. The younger person is holding a magnifying glass.
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Sheep Hot Water Bottle
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LOND/050
Tag THIS IS A SHEEP HOT WATER BOTTLE. IT BELONGED TO THE LATE THALIA TAMARI, 1998-2023. THALIA WAS A TRANS WOMAN FROM WALTHAMSTOW. AFTER MANY YEARS OF STRUGGLING TO FIND SPACES THAT WERE SUITABLE FOR HER, SHE COMMITTED SUICIDE IN DECEMBER 2023. MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE, TRANSPHOBIA AND NEUROTYPICALITIES’ INABILITY TO ACCOMMODATE TO NEURO DIVERGENT PEOPLE WERE CENTRAL TO HER SUICIDE. THIS SHEEP WAS a TEDDY SHE USED TO SLEEP WITH AND REPRESENTS ONE OF THE COMFORTS IN HER LIFE
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Family
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 450 mm Width 320 mm Depth 110 mm
A beige sheep hot water bottle. The sheep has black eyes and a pink nose. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
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Starbucks Cup With Raven Written On It
MOT/2024/NDOTC/PLYM/021
Tag Early in my transition, I would go to Starbucks, to try out possible new names. This became a tradition for me, like many folks questions their identity.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Family
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 18 cm Width 9.5 cm Depth 9.5 cm
A Starbucks cup labeled "Raven" stands near a handwritten note about identity exploration.