Resourcing Gypsy, Romany, Traveller trans youth in the UK: An exploration of intersectionality using heritage as a vehicle for empowerment

英国的吉普赛人、罗姆人和游民（GRT）群体经历着广泛的不平等。在媒体报道的推动下，“恋爱恐惧症”的态度在英国社会随处可见。YouGov/UofBirmingham的一份（2022）报告发现，他们是英国所有社区中最不受欢迎的。与此同时，自2015年以来，英国已经从欧洲“同性恋权利”最进步的国家——在国际女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、变性人和双性人协会的年度“彩虹地图”中占据首位——滑落到2020年的第10位，而且还在下降。政府对跨性别者权利的矛盾态度，以及英国媒体上猖獗的反跨性别言论，对跨性别者和性别多元化者的生活质量产生了重大的负面影响。石墙2017年的一份报告发现，跨性别、非二元和性别多样化的儿童和年轻人的心理健康状况异常严重，而格林菲尔德和罗杰斯（2020）强调了遭受歧视和仇恨犯罪对跨性别社区成员的心理健康和自杀意念的巨大影响。对跨性别者权利日益增长的抵制，加上对吉普赛人、罗姆人和游民社区的持续种族主义，使GRT跨性别青年处于极其脆弱的交叉地位（BBC/ de Gallier, 2022）。然而，关于性别多样化的年轻GRT人群的研究明显缺乏，他们的声音很少被听到。该项目将首次深入研究英国不同性别的年轻GRT人群的经历。它将利用博物馆、档案馆和文化/社区中心等遗产遗址作为媒介，使年轻的GRT人能够探索和庆祝他们的种族和性别身份经历，并将他们的叙述与他们的LBGTQ+长辈的叙述进行比较。通过弥补博物馆和吉普赛、罗姆和游民社区遗产代表性的空白，该项目希望在今天的英国带来社会变革，并赋予年轻的性别多样化的GRT人权力

Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities in Britain experience wide-ranging inequalities. Often fuelled by media coverage 'Romaphobic' attitudes, can be found across British society. A (2022) YouGov/UofBirmingham report found they are the most disliked of all communities in the UK.Concurrently, since 2015, the UK has slipped from being the most progressive 'gay rights' nation in Europe - occupying the top spot in the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association's, annual 'Rainbow Map - in 2020 to 10th place and falling. Governmental ambivalence around trans rights and rampant anti-trans rhetoric in the British media, has had a significant negative impact on the quality of life of trans and gender-diverse people.A 2017 Stonewall report found trans, non-binary and gender-diverse children and young people experience disproportionately high levels of mental ill health, whilst Greenfields & Rogers (2020) have highlighted the enormous impact on mental health and suicide ideation of GRT community members of exposure to discrimination and hate crime. This growing resistance to trans rights, paired with persistent racism towards Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, positions GRT transgender youth in an exceptionally vulnerable intersectional position (BBC/ de Gallier, 2022). However, there is a distinct lack of research about gender-diverse young GRT people, whose voices are rarely heard.This project will result in the first in-depth account of gender-diverse young GRT people's experiences in Britain. It will use heritage sites such as museums, archives and cultural/community hubs as a medium through which to enable young GRT persons to explore and celebrate their experiences of racial and sexual identity and compare their narratives with that of their LBGTQ+ elders.By redressing the lacuna in museum and heritage representation of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, this project hopes to bring about social change and empower young gender-diverse GRT people in Britain today