This is the latest version of a zine I have distributed at wormboys gigs over the last couple of years. I’ve recently updated it to address recent events, including the April 2025 Supreme Court ruling.
The zine is written particularly with allies in mind. It provides some background information on the UK’s anti-trans moral panic, and offers some suggestions for easy things people can do. These include: changing the conversation in everyday settings; making complaints or compliments; writing to politicians; introducing pro-trans policies; refusing to comply with anti-trans policies; supporting small trans organisations; and supporting trans creators.
This zine is intended to be freely copied and distributed. Please feel free to download and share the PDF. If you want to print it as an A5 booklet, simply select “print as booklet” and print onto A4 paper, then fold it in half.
But What Can I Do? PDF download
You can also download a more accessible simplified version here, which is text-only and will hopefully work with screen readers:
But What Can I do – May 2025 accessible
I am once again distributing the zine at wormboys shows in coming months, as well as queer bookshops such as Category Is Books in Glasgow. However, if you want copies in your area, the best thing to do is to download the PDF and print some off.
Tell your friends!
Dr Ruth Pearce 
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Hey Dr. Pearce! I’m a journalist working on a project interviewing queer/+trans researchers, academics and scientists, and I’d love to get in touch. Is there a good email where I can reach you?
Sorry, I don’t have capacity for any more interviews at present!
Hi – how do I print this off to make it into a zine format? Noob here but love this and want to distribute it
Hi! So, this is advice for Windows 11 but will hopefully work on similar operating systems.
Select “print”, then examine the options available in the print window(s). On W11 there is a section in the middle labelled “Page size and handling”. One of the options under this is labelled “booklet”.
Hi – how do I print this off in a zine format? Sorry I am a noob!
Thank you very much for this, has given me plenty of food for thought of how I can turn my anger and despair into something useful
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