20/08/2025
🩷Shocking Facts That Many Are Oblivious Of🩷
🏳️⚧️‼️Update: I am continuing to campaign for transgender rights. in this post, I am sharing information and emergency actions I hope you will take. please read, like 👍, comment, sign the petition and write to your MP using the template letter and briefing notes from TSA . Or sign the open letter from TSA if you can.(useful links all provided in this post) t‼️🏳️⚧️
💙🩷🤍Thankyou🥰 Sending love to all, as always, but especially people in the transgender and LGBTQI community, in these regressive, frightening times🤍🩷💙
I’m sure if you are reading this post, you are a fair-minded, probably cis*-gender (*not transgender) person, like me, who just wants to “ Liv and letlive. “, does not care who is locked into the neighbouring cubicle and like you going for a quick p*e in privacy and minding their own business and you certainly wouldn’t take issue with a transgender woman joining a Women’s walking group, knitting circle or gardening club!
I also imagine that (through no fault of your own and with so many other big news stories around the world currently) you are not even aware of the following issues and so in this post I will attempt to briefly outline some issues that will probably shock you and will lead to the loss of basic human rights for both cis and trans people. Yes….. there is already evidence from both the US and here in the UK that non-, stereotypical presenting. cis men and women are already being accosted by random strangers when just quietly living their lives in public!
Blatant misinformation and bullying bye gender critical ideologist/anti trans activists currently horrifies me and is largely unreported or misunderstood misrepresented by the mainstream media.
‼️ Please keep in mind that even the EHRC have pulled back and confirmed that it is NOT yet law that transgender people cannot access services and facilities according to their lived gender. The EHRC are currently being taken to court for their misinterpretation of the Supreme Court ruling ‼️
I feel extremely strongly that this situation is an emergency needing immediate action to literally save the lives of transgender, non-binary and inters*x people and also to save democracy in this country!
Some issues for you to be aware of
- 🏳️⚧️I was horrified that Bridget Phillipson went ahead and appointed known gender critical supporter, Mary Ann Stevenson as new chair of the EHRC, despite the WEC and JCHR (Women’s Equality Committee and Joint Committee on Human Rights ) rejection of her as a suitable chair following the pre-appointment scrutiny meeting on July 1. she will therefore replace the equally anti -transgender , and now completely discredited, Baroness Faulkner as chair at the end of November. The credibility of the EHRC as an independent/ unbiased body has indeed been further undermined with this ill considered appointment. By doing this, Bridget Phillipson is presenting herself as a gender critical/anti-transgender MP, who by ignoring cross party, well respected, Parliamentary committee advice alongside hundreds of letters from the public clearly has no concern for the transgender community and has not even acknowledged that their human rights and dignity are under threat.
- 🏳️⚧️Following the public consultation for the new code of practice by the EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commission) there were over 50,000 submissions/responses (including my own submission which took nine hours to complete due to the complex nature and number of questions which I answered in full! It was utterly exhausting!). It was absolutely unbelievable for the EHRC to announce their plan to disregard half of the submissions! how can this therefore be seen as a valid consultation?! The incredibly large response to the consultation demonstrates the public feeling around “single s*x spaces”(there were only 2000 responses to the last EHRC consultation last year).
- 🏳️⚧️The EHRC have been happy to announce that they are using AI to select the consultation responses which they plan to ignore and acknowledge that their choice to do this will mean that issues will be missed. Why is this okay? Where is the transparency regarding how the AI has been set up? What are the criteria by which submissions are being selected?
- 🏳️⚧️Where is the chance for public scrutiny and debate at this important stage of rewriting the code of practice?
- 🏳️⚧️The EHRC have self-selected an apparently deliberately short amount of time to go through the consultation responses. The Good Law Project (GLP) is taking the EHRC to court over this specific issue.
- 🏳️⚧️The EHRC appear to be rushing through their exclusionary, anti-trans code of practice, while government is in recess and it is my understanding that the new draft code of practice will not be available for scrutiny by members of Parliament or the public until it has already been given ministerial approval! How can this possibly be allowed to happen when it has such a massive impact on the lives of an already marginalised, vulnerable group within our society who currently live in real fear?!? This is not democratic.
- 🏳️⚧️It’s my understanding that the EHRC code of practice will be granted ministerial approval (by Bridget Philipson) under a negative procedure Meaning that MPs will only have 40 days(likely to be from the end of August) to both see the new document, evaluate it’s disastrous impact on transgender, non-binary and inters*x people. Also within this 40 day period ministers will have to apply for a prayer motion if anyone is to stop this horrendous document from automatically becoming law!
- 🏳️⚧️The Times have published the leaked draft code from the EHRC which clearly mandates the exclusion of transgender people from “ single s*x services” and completely ignores the section 8 of the Equality Act and the Gender RecognitionAct
- 🏳️⚧️It is completely unacceptable that single s*x services will not legally be allowed to remain inclusive of transgender people if the new code becomes law! It appears that for example, a women’s walking group, Women’s gardening club, Women’s swimming session will be breaking the law if they allow transgender women to attend, even if all the service users and provider want to remain inclusive of transgender people! It is not just single s*x toilets and changing rooms that will be affected if this American/Trump style “bathroom ban” is allowed to come into effect.
- 🏳️⚧️Despite the lack of any significant media interest there are thousands of cis people (like myself) who stand alongside the LGBTQ community in support of transgender rights. There were record-breaking numbers of people attending last months mass lobby of Parliament for transgender rights (around 1000 people from across the country attended the day). Plus london’s.Trans specific Pride on July 26 had record numbers (over 100,000 people marching almost double the last London trans pride event). Again these numbers are definitely not insignificant despite the lack of mainstream media interest and people like me will certainly be continuing to campaign and make sure everyone we know is aware of what’s happening and it’s impact.
- 🏳️⚧️Additionally, there are now over 41,000 signatures from cis gender women on the “Not In Our Name” petition on Change.org. The petition completely rejects the current discrimination against (and exclusion of) transgender people and opposes bigotry and gender critical ideology. Ordinary, fair minded cis women know that predatory men are the threat and not transgender women. People simply don’t care who is using the toilet next to them and it is non-conforming, non stereotypically presenting women who will actually bear the brunt of any US style bathroom ban.
- 🏳️⚧️ Finally, please remember that a reductionist ideology on gender , based on “ biological s*x at birth” is simply not supported by the science and is rejected by BMA doctors!
Please sign the petition at the link below and write to your MP if you feel able. Don’t forget there is a helpful template letter at the link below.
You could also donate to GLP (good law project) or the. Trans Legal Clinic if you have the means.
Unfortunately, the bigoted,trans exclusionary radical feminists such as the hate-fuelled S*x Matters and gender critical activists are funded by the billionaire author JK Rowling .
We must have transparency, scrutiny and debate to protect both the basic human rights and dignity of transgender people, but also to protect our democracy!
We cannot follow the American/Trump lead and basically become a n un-exclusive, unaccepting and intolerant autocracy.
‼️ Did you know our government has a travel warning against LGBTQI people travelling to the US? Do we want to join the US and be seen as an unsafe place to live, work and visit by LGBTQI people and in turn their friends and families?‼️
🏳️⚧️Trans Rights Are Human Rights🏳️⚧️
Sarah###
(Cis woman + Trans ally)🩷💙🤍🩷💙🤍
Trans Solidarity link with template letter + briefing notes to send to your MP is here:
EHRC Code of Practice Campaign | TSA
You can sign the petition “ Not in our name” here:
Petition · Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community - United Kingdom · Change.org
See the Good Law Project campaign for transgender rights here:
Stop the UK’s attack on trans people | Good Law Project
Excellent, insightful article worth reading here:
The fight for trans safety is a fight for everyone’s safety – MPs must have the chance to debate it | Freddy McConnell | The Guardian
Read about The excellent work Fighting for Justice by the Trans Legal Clinic here:
McCloud v UK - European Court of Human Rights
I I have also signed the open letter to Parliament as a Yoga business here:
(Please add your name if you are a business, association or organisation and please share with any supportive, inclusive organisations you have links with)
Businesses Open Letter | TSA
