Okay – so my blog has been a bit quiet for the last week. Sorry – but I have been so busy – honest! I have evaluated how best I can help the trans cause and came to the conclusion one of our biggest weaknesses was that the media and transphobes were constantly using the phrase “trans or gender ideology.” 

Many people may well think why does this matter but in fact, it matters a lot.

Neutral folk will, out of curiosity wonder what it means,  Google it – and find pages and pages of anti-trans articles and stories. The gender crits have in fact invented a new phrase and silently (and very successfully) introduced it into the English language. Their idea is similar to that used in the past. Hitler ostracised the Jew’s. Margaret Thatcher, through the introduction of Section 28 ostracised our LGB brothers and sisters. The theory is “divide and conquer,” to make us look like a wicked sect out to destroy humanity.

The proof – recently The Spectator (an extreme right-wing newspaper) added the word “sinister” too. Not nice. 

We have to fight back and here is the one thing that I can perhaps do better than most write dozens of articles countering the slur of “trans ideology.” My aim is to call out articles as they appear – and the people like Ryan T Anderson and Joanna Williams who write them.

We are not an ideology. We are biology – flesh and blood and I am at article war with the term of trans and gender ideology and all the negative press it brings with it. 

My first major article to counter the slur “trans ideology” can be read by clicking HERE. 

 

 

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Steph Richards (she/her) is a 74-year-old human rights activist, intersectional feminist, and recipient of a 2023 Inspirational Women of Portsmouth Award. Holding a Gender Recognition Certificate and "post op", she is the founder and Chair of Translucent.Org.UK, which was named LGBT Organisation of the Year at the 2022 National Diversity Awards. Steph was also shortlisted as a Positive Role Model for Gender at the 2025 National Diversity Awards. Steph’s leadership spans political, healthcare, and community advocacy. She served as the Women’s and LGBT Officer for the Portsmouth Labour Party (2021–2024), co-founded the Women’s Action Network (Portsmouth), and is a former CEO of a women’s health charity. A passionate champion for women's healthcare, she possesses extensive expertise in baby loss awareness, actively defends UK abortion rights and is a member of "Women Against the Far-Right". Calling out VAWG, Steph has researched and written about 125 women and girls killed by a man. A prominent voice in national media and debate, Steph has been featured live on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Anti Social, Good Morning Britain, Times Radio, LBC, GB News, and Channel 4 News. In 2023, she debated trans human rights alongside Harvard biologist Dr. Carole Hooven at a prominent US university event.

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