I am passionate about fairness, equality and the need to rid ourselves of discrimination in our society. 

While I appreciate we live in a capitalist society and by the very nature of the society we live in there will always be some people “better off” than some others…decency costs nothing. 

How great therefore to see Prince Harry & Meghan call out out equality. 

Meghan is vice president of the Queens Commonwealth Trust, and on Monday she and Harry dialled into there weekly video call, which was responding to the Black Lives Matter movement.

While rightly concentrating on the BLM issue, Meghan said this: “Equality does not put anyone on the back foot, it puts us all on the same footing – which is a fundamental human right.”

And of course, that is what trans folk seek as well – we don’t ask for anything other than be equal.

Sadly the TERF’s have other views.

They wish to use the cis privilege card to justify discrimination against trans folk and trans women in particular.

It is all so very wrong!

Discrimination stinks!

So for the record,  I am going to re-quote what Meghan said and hope and pray just one TERF (or better still Liz Truss) is listening.  

“Equality does not put anyone on the back foot; it puts us all on the same footing – which is a fundamental human right.”

And a message for Prince Harry – your mum would be proud of you. 

   

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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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