Author: Translucent Team

TransLucent Letter to the EHRC dated June 14th 2026 Correspondence Unit Equality and Human Rights Commission Arndale House The Arndale Centre Manchester M4 3AQ June 14, 2026 Dear REDACTED At our meeting with you on Friday in relation to the Commission’s Code of Practice now laid before Parliament, we raised with you a number of matters which are presently of great concern to trans people in the UK. It was agreed that we should write to you formally to seek an answer on these matters that can be shared publicly.  As also agreed, we will write to you…

TransLucent Letter to the EHRC June 14th 2026 Correspondence Unit Equality and Human Rights Commission Arndale House The Arndale Centre Manchester M4 3AQ June 14, 2026 Dear REDACTED At our meeting with you on Friday in relation to the Commission’s Code of Practice, now laid before Parliament, we raised with you a number of matters which are presently of great concern to trans people in the UK. It was agreed that we should write to you formally to seek an answer on these matters that can be shared publicly. As also agreed, we will write to you separately to provide…

Public Service Workers raise concerns about the implications of the new single-sex spaces guidance. By the Tasha DeGrasse Project (pseudonym for a group of public service workers). As public service workers, we are deeply concerned about the implications of the proposed Code of Practice’s guidance on single-sex spaces for our work. Namely: The excessive responsibility placed upon us to clairvoyantly predict when a complaint is legitimate or when someone has accessed a space not corresponding to their sex. The lack of protection against malicious allegations and contested policies, particularly regarding our legal protection if we make an error. The amount…

The EHRC and the Commons Women and Equalities Select Committee on 9th June 2026 By Robin Moira White Introduction I attended the entire above session via video. The Chair of the EHRC, Mary-Ann Stephenson and its CEO, John Kirkpatrick, were examined by the Committee. It is clear that the effect of the FWS judgment, viewed through the lens of the draft code produced by the EHRC, is segregation and exclusion of trans people in the UK, not integration and inclusion. The guidance in the code has been widely criticised as unhelpful and unworkable, and the whole sorry situation has led…

Translucent Response to the EHRC Draft Code of Practice (2026) The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Draft Code of Practice has been published. While presented as a technical update to reflect the Supreme Court’s judgment in For Women Scotland (FWS), our detailed legal analysis reveals that the Commission has exceeded its mandate, introducing technical errors, internal inconsistencies, and significant legal omissions that will harm trans people and mislead service providers. Unlawful Conditions on Protected Status The Draft Code attempts to rewrite the Equality Act 2010 (EA 2010) by stealth.  Paragraph 2.46 introduces extra-statutory requirements for “permanence” and “consistency of…

Petition on restoring trans rights The publication of the Draft Code on Services and Associations on Thursday, 21 May 2026, has brought into sharp focus the way in which the Supreme Court judgment in ‘For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers’ of April 2025 has interfered with the rights of trans people in the UK. Link to Petition   https://c.org/HTXK5MWMWX The very poorly argued judgment in For Women Scotland contains a number of legal errors, no Human Rights analysis and ignores the clear will of parliament in enacting the Gender Recognition and Equality Acts to protect the rights of trans people as…

Trans Rights Petition To Government We can confirm that an application to call for a debate to reverse the Supreme Court Judgment (FWS v SGM) has been made to the Government’s Petitions Office. The petition also calls for the Government to restore the full effect of the Equality Act 2010 and the Gender Recognition Act 2004 before the judgment was handed down, and to reject the recently published EHRC Draft Code of Practice. We are currently awaiting approval from the Petitions Office. Should the petition be approved, we will share it widely. Please be ready to encourage all those who…

TransLucent letter to Olivia Bailey MP Olivia Bailey MP Sanctuary Buildings Great Smith Street London By email only. 15th May 2026 Dear Minister for Equaities – LGBT Re: The United Kingdom’s Continued and Accelerating Decline in the ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map and Index We write to you on behalf of the trans community across the United Kingdom to express our profound concern regarding this country’s continuing and accelerating decline in the ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map and Index – an internationally recognised annual benchmarking tool that scores 49 European countries on legal and policy protections for LGBTI people. The facts are deeply concerning…

TransLucent Steps Up to Safeguard Trans Inclusion at Hampstead Heath 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 harmful precedent for trans rights nationwide. TransLucent is planning to apply to intervening in this case to ensure trans voices are heard and our community’s rights are vigorously protected. Our Legal Stand We have instructed our legal team at Leigh Day to prepare a formal intervention. Sex Matters bases…