Venue has been found!

[not_in_denial]

Yes, I have excellent news :) I have a venue!

It's a private home in the south-east suburbs. I'm not allowed to give the address until tickets are booked, precisely because it is a private home and I'm sure the gracious people who are letting us use their home don't want their address all over the internet

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[not_in_denial]

It has occurred to me (and you're not the first to ask about it). The main problem with this is how to make sure that the cisgender people in question ARE respectful of transfolk and not trannychasers. The only option I've come up with so far is to have a trans person vouch for them, and I'm not sure how such a system would work.

Any ideas?

My main thought at this point is that events *after* the first one may allow it, but I'm wanting to establish a trans positive and safe space first. But I'm totally open to suggestions on how to do this and still allow cisgendered non-partners.

[not_in_denial]

There will indeed be security people to throw people out of they start smaller shit, but if I see or hear anything about non-consensual violence or sexual assault or similarly huge deals I won't throw them out, I'll put them somewhere away from everyone else (with the help of said security people) and call the police. I won't stand for shit like that.

I am as yet unsure what to do about the cisgender allies part. I really do want to keep this event with a really heavy trans-focus, especially for the first one. At the moment I'm leaning towards saying trans people can bring two (or three, perhaps, though I'm inclined to stick with two) cisgendered people along as guests, without them necessarily being partners.