Author: Steph

Media Bias and Misinformation in Transgender News Coverage Fact-checking the press: The real-world consequences of inaccurate transgender reporting.  On 22 August 2026, the Scottish Daily Express published an article with the headline “John Swinney warned by human rights watchdog over attempt to break the law by bringing back gender self-ID”, written by David Walker. Mr Walker has an established record of writing articles hostile to the trans community. On 24 August, we filed a formal complaint with the Independent Press Standards Organisation, detailing three grave concerns. 1) Misleading Headline Unsupported by Text. 2) Factual Inaccuracy Regarding Legal Protections. 3) Failure…

How Anti-Trans Activism Uses Feminist Rhetoric An analysis of how gender-critical activism uses safety rhetoric, concept inversion, and claims to neutrality to advance restrictive agendas.  One of the most striking features of modern reactionary politics is its ability to co‑opt the language of liberation to further restrictive agendas. Trans-exclusionary radical ideology exemplifies this tactic: it cloaks itself in the rhetoric of feminism—invoking safety, rights, womanhood, and empowerment—while using these very concepts to justify exclusion and discrimination. This strategy is not accidental. It is deliberate, structural, and politically effective. The Strategy of Borrowed Legitimacy Reactionary movements recognise that overt bigotry holds…

A Message From Our Founder – Steph Richards Six years ago, I founded TransLucent – this post doesn’t look back; it looks forward to our litigation in the courts and specifically applying for: 1) A Judicial Review against the EHRC Code of Practice 2) An intervention application re the Hampstead Heath Ponds 3) And possibly the Sandi Peggie EAT appeal. To be clear, I never founded TransLucent to be a leader in trans litigation; we got here simply because we got asked!   TransLucent has a strong position for legal “standing” – in short, as a trans advocacy organisation, we…

Crowdjustice Messages: EHRC Draft Code of Practice. Just over 48 hours ago, at 06:01 AM on Monday, 6th July 2026, TransLucent launched its Crowdfunder to challenge the Draft EHRC Code of Practice by Judicial Review. PLEASE DONATE: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/challenging-the-ehrc-code-of-p/ Since then, over 309 people have donated, and we are over 70% of the way to our target. Many people are leaving messages. This post highlights some of what has been said. Harriet donated £100 – 100% behind your work. Anonymous donated £10 – A threat not only to trans people, but all women, and feminism as a whole. Go get them.…

Why “Standing” Matters: The Legal Fight for Trans Rights – Opinion When we fight for trans equality, our battles don’t just happen in the court of public opinion – they happen in actual courts of law. But before a judge will even hear our arguments about fairness, dignity, or human rights, we often have to clear a key legal hurdle: standing. If you’ve been following our latest legal campaigns, you’ll know that TransLucent is currently taking two major steps: seeking a Judicial Review of the EHRC’s Draft Code of Practice, and applying to intervene in the Hampstead Heath Ponds case…

Debunking Transing the Gay Away You’re ‘transing the gay away’, scream members of LGB Alliance, the trans-hostile LGB “charity” famed for their 55 Tufton Street address, home of the far right and climate deniers.  However, gender and sexuality are two different things. Our brains actually process them on totally different structures and timelines.  According to major medical groups like the American Academy of Paediatrics, most children develop a solid sense of their gender identity, that internal “Who am I?” feeling, by the time they are just 3 to 5 years old. It is one of the very first ways we learn to navigate the world, and…

All I asked was to live my life as my true self. All I asked was to live my life as my true self. I can’t remember what my earliest memory was as a child, but I certainly know what the overriding one was. I should have been born a girl. I must have been four or five when I told my mum – she responded by giving me my sister’s skirt. It was known as my “dancing skirt.” It was a full “A-line” yellow with blue and white flowers. Given my sister was 7 years my senior, it no…

Claims that trans women have lost the right to use single sex spaces misstate the law. Contrary to claims by the right-wing media and gender-critical organisations, the Supreme Court has NOT removed trans women’s ability to access single‑sex services, nor has it created any new duty on providers to exclude them. The Equality Act 2010 continues to protect trans people through the protected characteristic of gender reassignment. That protection applies across services and public functions, education, employment, clubs, associations, and similar settings. There is no requirement for medical treatment or a Gender Recognition Certificate to be covered. If a service…

Why trans people are always in the media. Trans people are in the media so much because they’ve become a convenient focus for political “culture wars”, while at the same time, there is growing visibility and activism pushing for more trans representation in society and public life. A culture war occurs when politics becomes a battle over who we are, rather than a discussion about what we need. Instead of focusing on tax, housing or healthcare, culture‑war debates fixate on identity and values: who counts as a “real” man or woman, whose families are “normal”, who “costs” the country, and…

Beyond the certificate, the Statutory Declaration represents a binding legal contract with the Crown that carries significant criminal consequences if breached. Continue Reading GRC v Statutory Declaration: Understanding the Legal Commitment to Change Sex in the UK