You’ve probably noticed how obsessively they talk about trans youth — not with compassion, not with any real understanding, but with that faux-concern tone, as if they’re the last line of defence against ‘irreversible damage’. Fertility, brain development, and future…
Today, we have launched a new community guidance pack and browser extension to support trans people, allies, and organisations responding to the EHRC’s controversial 2025 Draft Code of Practice consultation. The EHRC’s proposed guidance has been widely criticised for encouraging…
Trigger Warning: Legal Exclusion, Misgendering, and Transphobia The EHRC’s 2025 draft Code of Practice consultation is one of the most damaging pieces of institutional guidance we’ve seen in recent memory. It lays out, in clinical language, the legal justifications for…
The Equality and Human Rights Commission is falling apart. Its Chair, Kishwer Falkner, in a plea of authoritarian desperation, said “It is unacceptable to question the integrity of the regulator”, but the EHRC’s lack of integrity is on full display. …
Language matters. Words shape how we understand each other, how we interact with our communities, and how we either uphold or dismantle systems of oppression. In recent years, terms like “biological sex”, “biological male”, “biological female”, “biologically male”, “biologically female”,…
STOP USING: These terms are not neutral. They are politicised, scientifically misleading, and function as transphobic slurs when used to override someone’s gender identity. They are widely rejected by the trans community, by medical professionals, and by human rights experts.…
EHRC or SexMatters? the line is too blurry to tell The Equality and Human Rights Commission adopt the belief that a proportionate and legitimate aim for the segregation of a minority can in any way be proportionately defined enough to…
TACC (Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective) can now reveal, through documents obtained via a Freedom of Information request, that in early September 2024, the anti-trans activists Sex Matters secured a closed-door meeting with key figures at the Equality and Human…
In recent months, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has been issuing guidance and statements on sex and gender that have made headlines and caused concern across the equality and human rights sector. But amid the political noise, one…
Guest Article by Rach, founder of Lesbians Against Fascism and Transphobia (LAFT)LAFT can currently be found on Instagram. I was born in the early 80’s so my most formative years were lived under Thatcher. I was also born into a…