BREAKING 🧨
I'm now in possession of evidence confirming a second trans youth suicide, where the patient's data was NOT sent to NHS England, for inclusion in Appleby's flawed DHSC report "Review of suicides and gender
dysphoria at the Tavistock and
Portman NHS Foundation Trust:
independent report"
With 38 hrs to go to the EHRC consultation deadline I'm seeing posts from people feeling bad they're too stressed to engage.
The GLP⬇️has removed all but the last step, a general comment box. This is a far easier task. I hope it helps those who want to, to get their voice heard without too much pain.
Guidance on responding to the EHRC consultation. transactual.org.uk/equality-act-campaign. Illustration of a person working at a laptop
Guidance on responding to the EHRC consultation is now available on our website, made in partnership with others in the LGBTQ+ sector. You'll find it at: transactual.org.uk/equality-act...
Will sign and share when it’s published! ☺️
We cannot compete with the vast sums JK Rowling has to spend on her war on a tiny minority and civil society organisations that want to promote inclusivity.
But @goodlawproject.bsky.social is the UK's biggest defender of trans rights. If you'd like to support our work there's a link in my bio.
An update on the withholding of suicide data🧵
Remember how in Dec 2024, after 5 months of chasing NHS England and the DHSC as to whether Alice's data was sent to the DHSC for a report into trans youth suicide by Prof Appleby, I made a FOI of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust to ask them...
If you read one thing today, let it be this. 🏳️⚧️⬇️
So so hopeful. Shared and signed. 🏳️⚧️
Charlotte Fosgate deserved to grow up. 🏳️⚧️ #transkidsdeservetogrowup
To mark the 1st day of my 4th year without Alice I have an announcement:
I’ve joined up with a determined group of women working to change the narrative around trans people. Women standing in solidarity with our trans siblings.
Our first step is to ask cis women to read and sign our open letter ⬇️
Join our mass lobbying day - wednesday 25th June 1-4pm - Against the EHRC Guidance. Together we can make a difference. Register via www.transsolidarityalliance.com Trans+ Solidarity Alliance logo. Unite 4 Trans Rights logo. A picture of a trans flag being held over Westminster Palace.
WHAT IS A MASS LOBBY? A mass lobby is when a group of people contact their MP or contact members of the House of Lords and arrange to meet them in parliament on the same day and at the same time. It's a great way of making it clear to parliamentarians that their constituents (or in the case of the House of Lords, UK citizens) are passionate about an issue, and is an effective way of encouraging them to take action. WE WILL BE RELEASING INFORMATION PACKS
TRANS+ OR ALLY WE NEED YOU! The Equalities and Human Rights Commission has produced a draft code of guidance to the Equality Act that - if implemented - will have a devastating impact on the day to day lives of trans+ people in the UK, excluding them from settings ranging from specialist support services to gym changing rooms and toilets. We need our parliamentarians to step up and speak out NOW to prevent this draft guidance becoming law. Join us on 25th June you can register via our website www.transsolidarityalliance.com REGISTER TO COME!
Let's demand better for Trans+ people in the UK!
MASS LOBBY AGAINST EHRC GUIDANCE
Trans+ people and allies - join us in Parliament on the 25th June
Register and find more information on our website: transsolidarityalliance.com
Trans people belong. Email your MP now and stand up for trans rights! Illustration of Great Britain. Next to it are the logos for the Equality Network, Scottish Trans, and TransActual
Have you written to your MP about the impact of the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act?
Our wonderful pals at Scottish Trans have created a resource that you can use to write to your MP and your MSP too. You'll find it at www.scottishtrans.org/supreme-cour...
#Trans #Nonbinary #TransRights
🚨 Important Action 🚨
Here is a brand new draft letter to your MP, which you should absolutely be sending, based on yesterday's statement from UN experts.
Please send and share!
A photo of the Bells Larsen ‘Blurring Time’ CD album.
Listening to my new Bells Larsen CD this morning. All the songs sound like duets, but they’re actually the same person singing at different stages of their life: one before the vocal changes from taking testosterone, one after. Such magical trans music. Queerness is beautiful. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
I have been actively following this FOI request and am so grateful for @reactiveashley.bsky.social for pursuing this.
We know Alice's data was not sent to the DHSC for Appleby to review. So it's particularly galling to read the Information Commissioner's Office quote Appleby at length stating:
1/🧵 Today, I am suing the Information Commissioner (and potentially Wes Streeting’s Department of Health and Social Care, if they choose to participate) over the secrecy surrounding the Louis Appleby Report and the suicide statistics related to the Tavistock GIDS.
Am sharing here a thread I wrote on twitter last year about what I could then see from evidence, whistleblower and contemporaneous, about deaths by suicide of young trans people on the waiting list. 🧵
I hope the people around you give you what you’re needing and asking for 🤞 xx
The UK’s ILGA Europe ranking for 2025 is so frightening. It’s unsafe to be Queer here.
Just a note though. ILGA exclude asexuality from all of their work. It’s nowhere on their website or glossary. It really hurts to be erased.
Their work is important but we must hold them accountable.
You’re in my thoughts Caroline. I hope you can look after yourself tomorrow, and can spend the day with people who can be with you with acceptance. 🩵
It’s been an even busier than usual few weeks, but what have TransActual been doing?
In short: it’s mostly been to do with the Equality Act.
Read the thread to find out more.
No problem at all - I’ve just posted an updated link and deleted this one as it was outdated! 🩵
You’re absolutely welcome, thank you for such a lovely message 🩵
Now more than ever, help us stand against Reform and the far-right in the UK 👇
Spreadsheet started for Nottingham: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Practical things you can do as a Cis ally:
- Write to your MP
- Protest
- Give funds to Trans led advocacy groups
- Use whatever social capital you have to support your workplace, your kids schools, your communities to resist the erasure of Trans people from public life.
As an asexual person living in the UK, my sexuality has never been protected by the Equality Act.
Thankfully, I get by okay day-to-day simply by not disclosing it. I’m lucky.
Many trans people don’t have the same privilege. I will fight for trans rights before my own.
There’s a LOT of anger out there about the EHRC and government overreach into lgbtq lives this morning. Hold on to it and use it; don’t mourn, organise. We can beat them.
🏳️⚧️ NEW 🏳️⚧️
We believe the Supreme Court – which disgracefully refused to hear from trans people before its decision last week – has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act.
So we’re readying a challenge – join us:
goodlaw.social/xpme
