Author: Translucent Team

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…

Dance of Identity – Can you support? Summary Currently awaiting post-production, Dance of Identity is an intimate documentary chronicling the life of Sophie, a transgender woman from Yorkshire, and her partner, Sandi. Watch Trailer on YouTube – Click HERE.  Dance of Identity – Can you support? Dance of Identity follows the life of Sophie, a transgender woman from Yorkshire, and her partner, Sandi. Filmed over a transformative six-year period, the movie explores Sophie’s quest for a “normal” family life and her determination to perform female ballet roles—all while navigating the physical and emotional journey toward gender-affirming surgery. However, Sophie’s personal…

The Horrifying Consequences of the FWS v SGM Supreme Court Judgment   On 16 April 2025, the Supreme Court ruled that “sex”, “woman” and “man” in the Equality Act 2010 mean biological sex as recorded at birth, not a person’s acquired sex under a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC). The Court accepted that the Gender Recognition Act 2004 changes a person’s legal sex “for all purposes”, but then carved out the Equality Act by insisting that its protections and exceptions are in many situations tied only to biological sex – the exception being if a trans woman is “perceived” to be a…

A Response to Losing Focus by MurrayBlackburnMackenzie OPINION: TransLucent — April 2026 MurrayBlackburnMackenzie (MBM) has published a report, Losing Focus: Women’s Charities and the UK Supreme Court Ruling, which purports to offer legal and policy analysis of the position of women’s charities following the Supreme Court’s judgment in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers. TransLucent welcomes rigorous legal debate on these issues. However, we are concerned that Losing Focus presents a highly selective and, at times, potentially misleading account of the law, and that its recommendations, if followed uncritically, could cause serious harm to transgender women who rely…

Over 100000 Women Are Supporting Trans Inclusion TransLucent would like to congratulate the ‘Not In Our Name” women’s collective on achieving over 100,000 signatures calling for trans inclusion and standing against gender-critical transphobia. Better still, they achieved this landmark figure exactly one year on from the infamous Supreme Court judgment FWS v SGM. The Not In Our Name women’s letter reads: We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to…

Rebecca Paul MP and SEGM TransLucent is disappointed to see that a member of the Women and Equality Select Committee (WESC) has retweeted a post by Scientific Evidence for Gender Medicine (SEGM). ​This American-based group has been named a trans hate group by the human rights organisations Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC) and the Lemkin Institute. Unfortunately, there are no UK-based organisations that similarly designate groups that seek to dismantle the human rights of marginalised and disadvantaged groups. ​SEGM is the outcome of the right-wing political agenda pursued by Project 2025, which successfully campaigned to elect Donald Trump to the…

A Dedicated Advocate: Thanking Steph Richards and Looking to the Future Following her resignation as our CEO earlier today, TransLucent extends its heartfelt thanks to Steph Richards, whose leadership has been instrumental in advancing our organisation and championing trans human rights. ​We understand Steph’s decision to pursue her personal legal case against the Labour Party, which ultimately led to her resignation, and we are deeply saddened to see her go from this position. Steph will remain a leading figure in her field of human and women’s rights and as a strong trans rights advocate. TransLucent are proud to announce our…