Sunday 28th June 2026, 14:11
Notes taken while drinking my Kopparberg cider and offline.
At Sparkle.
The co-founder of Anne is on stage describing that to get under 18s gender affirming treatment in the UK they have to use offshore doctors to prescribe and offshore suppliers to provide the medication. I thought Norway was bad but the UK is simply inhumane.
Of the eight of us sitting in the beer tent five of us are wearing fishnets!
I was complimented by a man as I walked along Canal Street towards the entrance to Sackville Gardens, he said I looked fabulous.
Lots of good legs on display.
Trans people of all shapes, sizes, and degrees of confidence.
A lot of wigs too. Most look much better in them than I do.
But it's pretty clear that most of the people here are dressed specifically for this event. They don't carry themselves as though they are habitually dressed from. So I wonder how many are full time dressers or living as trans.
It's just occurred to me that I should have asked @michelle22 if there was a Pride event near her.
The performers on stage are considerably more accomplished than last year's mob.
There's a group of four men at the other end of the tent taking pictures of each other draped in a trans flag.
There's a substantial minority of people here who are in more or less my age range who dressed in what seems to me to be more or less fancy dress and looking like they feel rather conspicuous.
Ok, I take it back, there's a standup comic who's not doing so well.
There's a woman, possibly a GG, at the bar now who really should have asked her friend to check that her patterned tights were on straight!
Hardly anyone in heels. Of the dozen of now sitting in the beer tent only three wearing heels.
Now the comic is singing I am the walrus, much better than the rest of the routine.
