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Trans Pride Limerick to highlight the need for adequate healthcare for the trans community
Trans Pride Limerick to highlight the need for adequate healthcare for the trans community. Trans Limerick Community pictured marching in the Limerick LGBTQIA+ Pride Parade 2025. Picture: Olena Oleksienko/ilovelimerick
Limerick City will celebrate Trans Pride this August, when people will gather on Bedford Row on Saturday, August 23, to celebrate trans lives and highlight the need for adequate healthcare
Limerick City is preparing for Trans Pride, organised by a group in the city to bring a message of visibility and resilience on Saturday, August 23, as the organisers hope to celebrate trans lives while pushing back against the challenges the community faces locally, nationally, and globally.
One of the demonstration’s organisers, Beth, a co-founder of Trans Pride, said the event will help show people that there are others like them in Limerick City and beyond. They said, “I think it’s important to organise the event to show younger trans people that there are people like them – even in smaller cities.”
Beth said it is more important now than ever to demonstrate unity with the trans community, saying, “Especially now, at a time with backlash from the wider media and government, it’s so important to show it’s okay to be trans; and it’s love, and it’s joy and it’s becoming who you truly are. For all other allies, to be there and support us helps us come together against the backlash because we’re unstoppable when together as a community.”
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The gathering will feature speeches from the organisers and members of the trans community as well as its allies. Eleanor of Trans Limerick Community (TLC) said the group is “happy to speak” at the gathering to help spread the group’s important message.
Eleanor said, “TLC is happy to speak at Trans Plus Pride. It is important that everyone understands that, just because Pride Month is over, it does not mean that the fight for trans rights stops. The healthcare system for trans people is incredibly broken and keeping up that pressure against it, to have changed and have a fairer and respectful form of healthcare. It’s of vital importance to us, and we are happy to put our voices towards this cause.”
Another co-founder of the event expressed their excitement about the event’s growth, saying it is “really fun to work with Beth” as the group creates events for trans people in Limerick.
They said, “It’s really fun to work with Beth to make events for trans people, especially in Limerick, as there are not normally a lot of trans-centred events that take place. I feel really happy with how far it’s come, and I couldn’t be happier working with Beth to make this happen.”
Trans Plus Pride Limerick has been keeping its followers up to date with information on social media as well as announcing sign-making workshops as the group prepares for the 2025 Limerick Trans Pride gathering.
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