Trans Liberation

08/08/2025

The front page of today's Times makes it seem likely that the cabinet will agree to the guidance from the EHRC that effectively bans trans people from public spaces, by banning us from using toilets and changing rooms congruent with our gender, including the NHS and care homes. This comes shortly after it was announced that the government will replace the outgoing transphobic chair of the EHRC with... another transphobe.

18/07/2025

This government guidance looks suspiciously like a new 'Section 28', but for gender.

19/05/2025

This Supreme Court Ruling Survey is much more nuanced than the headline suggests. As many people think trans people should use whichever toilet we prefer (more for trans men) as think we should use the one according to our biological s*x.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/supreme-court-ruling-gender-trans-survey-b1228469.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawKYYxNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpNnw9CmxyV8uf6lEAAK0MmNUDPSoJD2jhQSJiBXzwaCWV3IgCxoD1sJUjoJ_aem_ykS3PxC0Uk6aL6ATywWGcw

07/05/2025

So it seems the so-called NC21 amendment to the Data Bill, that would have removed trans people's rights to have our correct gender marker on passports and other documents has been defeated by quite a large margin. Thankfully the government did not support it and has undertaken not to introduce this change by other means (if you can believe anything they say!)

07/05/2025

It never stops!

Today Parliament will be voting on an amendment to the Data Bill that will prevent trans people from having our correct gender marker listed on passports and other documents, outing us to airport authorities, something the Gender Recognition Act was designed to prevent.

As if that wasn't enough, tomorrow a motion will be debated by GPs that, if passed, would prevent trans people from having our correct gender markers on our NHS records. Trans women, for example, are at risk of breast cancer and things like bacterial vaginosis, so this would put trans people at risk.

Even if one or other of these two attacks on trans rights fail, we can expect more in the coming weeks and months now that all the worst transphobes have been emboldened to attack us, ensuring a hostile environment for trans people.

03/05/2025

The Football Association (FA) has banned trans women from women's football. They say "The Supreme Court’s ruling on the 16 April means that we will be changing our policy. Transgender women will no longer be able to play in women’s football in England, and this policy will be implemented from 1 June 2025."

They go on to say, "This is a complex subject, and our position has always been that if there was a material change in law, science, or the operation of the policy in grassroots football then we would review it and change it if necessary."

Except there hasn't been a material change in any of those things. They are making it so obvious that they always wanted to do this and now they can use the Supreme Court ruling as a pretext, despite the ruling explicitly not saying that policies have to change.

An FA update following the recent Supreme Court transgender ruling

02/05/2025

England and Wales Cricket Board ban trans women from women's cricket

27/04/2025

The British Medical Association (BMA), the trade union for doctors, has called the recent Supreme Court ruling on trans women "scientifically illiterate" and "biologically nonsensical".

27/04/2025

An excellent explainer of the interim guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, produced by Q***r AF and What the Trans?