Mission Statement
Our mission at TransLucent is to advocate for and promote the UK’s transgender and gender-diverse community so to advance visibility, social acceptance, legal recognition and improve healthcare. Our team consists of approximately twenty volunteers all of whom are experts in their fields.
We:
- Directly address misinformation and disinformation about our lives, experiences, human rights and healthcare.
- Investigate organisations & groups who are hostile to our community and existence.
- Elevate the numerous and varied voices of our community.
- Work with the UK government and other stakeholders to advance human rights.
Our current active work includes:
Gender Recognition Act reform
Campaigning for a more straightforward and accessible legal recognition system. Advocating for the reform of the Gender Recognition Act towards a self-declaration system that de-pathologises and destigmatises transgender people, and one which includes both non-binary and intersex people.
Conversion Therapy
Advocating for the effective inclusion of trans & non-binary people in the proposed ‘Conversion Therapy Ban’.
Sport
Advocating for the inclusion of trans & non-binary people in sports.
Monitoring Public Bodies
Monitoring the activities of multiple public bodies which have increasingly become oppositional and damaging to our community.
NHS Healthcare
Monitoring the activities of and working with the NHS to improve access to, and provision of trans healthcare.
Media Misinformation
Investigating and monitoring trans-hostile misinformation campaigns.
Trans Hostile Extremism
Investigating & monitoring the links between trans and gender-hostile groups and individuals, and how they intersect with the far-right and religious extremist groups.
An altercation at a WESC meeting demonstrates the significant distress and legal challenges faced by transgender individuals following the Supreme Court judgment, prompting calls for urgent parliamentary action. Continue Reading Parliamentary Altercation Highlights Crisis in Trans Rights Post-SC Judgment
The article proposes a minor amendment to the Equality Act 2010 to rectify the Supreme Court’s trans equality ruling and the EHRC’s damaging interim guidance. Continue Reading Clearing up the mess of the Supreme Court’s trans equality ruling – an easy job for a politician
The Stonewall Uprising began on June 28 1969 as protests against a police raid, igniting modern LGBTQLGBTQ LGBTQIA+ is an inclusive term that includes people of all genders and sexualities, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, intersex, asexual, pansexual, and allies. While each letter in LGBTQIA+ stands for a specific group of people, the term encompasses the entire spectrum of gender fluidity and sexual identities. https://abbreviations.yourdictionary.com/what-does-lgbtqia-stand-for-full-acronym-explained.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT+ activism and Pride, notably led by trans women. Continue Reading Stonewall Uprising: How Transgender Resistance Ignited the Fight for LGBTQ+ Liberation
The “Not In Our Name” collective of cisgender women, including Alice Litman’s mother, rejects discrimination against trans people and states the real threat to women is male violence, not trans people. They stand in solidarity with trans people. Continue Reading We Welcome The “Not In Our Name” Women’s Collective.
