Author: Translucent Team

TransLucent Applies to the High Court to Intervene in the Hampstead Heath Ponds Case. The Directors of TransLucent are pleased to confirm that we have applied to the High Court to intervene in the Hampstead Heath Ponds case – one that could prove pivotal for trans people in the future. Join the Fight: Donate to the TransLucent Legal Fund The anti-trans group Sex Matters is once again taking legal action in an attempt to exclude trans women from the Hampstead Heath Ladies’ Pond. Their challenge aims to force the City of London Corporation to abandon its inclusive policy, risking a…

Emily Brothers: Exclusion from Labour Women’s Conference. Long-serving Labour Party member Emily Brothers has been banned as a Delegate to the Women’s Conference and excluded from reserved seats for women in National Policy Forum (NPF) elections. Liverpool is Emily’s home city, where she grew up, went to school and found politics, joining Labour in 1981. Emily is blind, hearing-impaired, and a trans woman. Emily’s commitments to the Labour and Trade Union Movement have included standing as a parliamentary candidate in 2015 (Sutton and Cheam) and 2024 (Isle of Wight East). She stood for the London Assembly in 2016 and has…

TransLucent’s Statement: Labour Women’s Conference 2026 – Standing with Trade Unions. On September 26th, Labour’s National Women’s Conference is scheduled to take place in Liverpool, where trans women are barred from being delegates, meaning they can’t sit on the conference floor, speak in debates, or vote – the three core functions defining full participation. Trans men (now, because of the highly controversial Supreme Court judgment, who, for Equality Act purposes, are deemed to be ‘women’) face a similar practical exclusion. To have been selected as a delegate, a trans man would have been required to disclose his trans status to…

The Cass Review v The Netherlands: Why the Netherlands is Continuing Youth Gender-Affirming Healthcare. At a time when healthcare for transgender youth in the United Kingdom faces severe restrictions, an authoritative report from the Health Council of the Netherlands provides a vital, evidence-based roadmap. While not naming the Cass Review specifically, it is clear there is a conflict.  Both reports grapple with the same core problem – thin long-term evidence, particularly on cognition and fertility – but reach different policy conclusions. NHS England’s Cass Review, published in April 2024, judged that the evidence was too weak to justify continued routine…

Trans Detransition: What the Data Shows The anti-trans movement frequently cites detransition as a reason to oppose gender-affirming healthcare. Online, images often depict trans men post-double mastectomy, accompanied by claims of regret. There is little attention on trans women, as this does not fit the trans hostile narrative that young women are swept up in a so-called “social contagion” of “gender ideology” – a term originally adopted by the Vatican in the late 1990s to oppose women’s equality and now repurposed to dehumanise trans people. A central figure in this area of gender-critical debate has been Keira Bell, a detransitioner,…

UN: Revised Code of Practice risks institutionalising discrimination against transgender and gender-diverse persons, warn UN experts On the 17th of August 2026. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations published this statement: GENEVA – UN human rights experts* today warned that the UK’s revised Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions, and Associations, in force as of 5 August, may place transgender and gender-diverse persons at heightened risk of discrimination and exclusion. “We remain concerned that the revised Code adopts an unduly rigid approach to trans-inclusive services, leaving insufficient scope for service providers to…

The Labour Party’s Day of Shame – 5.8.26 Today is 5 August 2026, a day of shame for the UK and the UK Labour Party in particular. This is the day the UK government brings into force the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission’s new guidance on the provision of services. It is a long document, but the shameful provision is confirmation of the finding of the UK Supreme Court that ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 means ‘biological’ sex recorded at birth and is immutable, as found in the April 2025 judgment of the UK Supreme Court in For Women…

Four Years, Seven Surveys, Four Complaints: What Our FOI Data Actually Shows In recent days, Southampton City Council finally sent us its response to our most recent Freedom of Information investigation — one of two outstanding replies from the 62 unitary authorities in England whom we approached earlier this year. The final remaining authority that has not replied is Derby – we are still chasing. Southampton’s answer, like the vast majority of the councils that responded before it, was zero: no recorded complaints about trans women using women’s facilities. With Southampton’s confirmation in place, we thought it was a good…

International Solidarity: Matching Fund Boosts Legal Fight for Trans Rights in the UK TransLucent is deeply grateful to everyone who has supported our legal challenge to the EHRC’s Code of Practice so far. After just seven days of crowdfunding, our community and allies have already donated over £26,000, enabling us to move to the next phase of this work. New matching fund: every pound doubled We are pleased to announce that a Canadian supporter has offered to match every pound donated to TransLucent during the week commencing 13 July 2026, up to a maximum of £5,000. For this week only,…

The Real-World Harm of Gender-Critical Ideology: A Response to Reem Alsalem Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, has positioned herself as a defender of women’s rights while consistently advancing views that exclude and endanger transgender people — particularly trans women in the UK. TransLucent believes it is time to name this pattern clearly and examine the damage the gender-critical movement has inflicted on British trans communities. Who Is Reem Alsalem and Why Does Her Role Matter Alsalem has served as UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls since August 2021, a position…