Mission Statement
Our mission at TransLucent is to advocate for and promote the UK’s Transgender and Gender Diverse community in order to advance visibility, acceptance, legal recognition and healthcare.
We do this by:
- Directly addressing misinformation and disinformation about our lives, experiences, rights and healthcare Investigating organisations & groups who are hostile to our community and existence.
- Elevating the numerous and varied voices of our community, both groups and individuals, to increase visibility.
- Fighting for improved legal recognition & healthcare
Our current active work includes:
Gender Recognition Act reform
Campaigning for a simpler and more accessible legal recognition system in the England & Wales via reform of the existing Gender Recognition Act towards a self declaration system that depathologises and destigmatises Transgender people, and includes both Non-Binary and Intersex people, and supporting our Scottish counterparts in the same activity.
Conversion Therapy
Inclusion of Trans & Non-Binary people in the proposed Conversion Therapy Ban.
Sport
Inclusion of Trans & Non-Binary people in Sport, including the rollback of recent blanket bans on trans inclusion
Monitoring Public Bodies
Monitoring the activities of multiple ‘independent’ UK public bodies, which have increasing become oppositional and damaging to our community. This includes the Equality & Human Rights Commission among several others.
NHS healthcare
Monitoring the activities of and working with the NHS to improve both access to, and provision of trans healthcare in the UK.
Media Misinformation
Investigating and monitoring trans hostile misinformation campaigns
Trans hostile extremism
Investigating & monitoring the links between trans hostile groups and individuals, and how they intersect with the far right and religious extremist groups
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