Since launching this campaign and releasing the contact details for our government representatives, our team feels the response from the community has indicated major challenges which have prevented our message from connecting with the right people, or from ramping up the collective actions of the community, as we set out to accomplish.
We feel it makes sense to shift the tone and content of VanTAG posts into alignment with the tone of our original Manifesto. In essence, we feel our blog posts have become too 'dry' since this original outline. We're about to make a dramatic move towards a personal(ized) style of writing, to accurately reflect the sheer frustrations of the community, voice the concerns of our local trans population, and enable us to release posts on a far more frequent basis. We're currently exploring working with new writers and editors. Meanwhile, our team will still coordinate the neutral, 'diplomatic' content.
We've had concerns and reservations about making personally-accountable content and opinions available through our channel, however our provincial trans health care situation has reached such an extreme point of crisis that we cannot be timid any longer. Now is the best time to take advantage of the opportunity being presented to us: significantly under addressed primary health care for thousands of British Columbians. We must be prepared to embarrass the provincial government to the point that they actually make the changes the community so desperately needs; fully funded and insured trans health care.
We're actively networking with our community peers, and local LGBT organizations to direct (otherwise squandered) attention and participation to the campaign. We're also about to make a major announcement about the direction, logistics, and semantics of the campaign, so stay tuned!
If you are interested in writing or editing for this campaign, please drop us an email at: vantagblog@gmail.com
- The VanTAG Team
A New Direction for VanTAG
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