TransLucent, a UK-based organisation advocating for transgender and gender-diverse rights, provides numerous briefing notes and articles addressing various issues. These cover topics such as transgender people in prisons, healthcare misinformation, the impact of gender-critical feminism, and the culture war surrounding transgender identity. The site also features personal narratives and responses to current events impacting the transgender community. The organisation is run by an unpaid, volunteer team and relies on donations. Their materials aim to inform and advocate for policy changes and increased understanding.
Here is a list of articles appearing on our home page.
The Impact of Gender-Critical Ideology on Women and Society: This text asserts that gender-critical ideology, despite its purported feminist origins, is damaging as it excludes transgender people, weakens feminist unity, diverts attention from patriarchy, and carries the risk of aligning with socially conservative viewpoints. Continue Reading The Impact of Gender-Critical Ideology on Women and Society
We are pleased to confirm that earlier this week, a team from TransLucent, together with two supporting academics, met with officials from the Ministry of Justice and HMPPS to discuss the issue of transgender people held in both the male and female estates. Continue Reading TransLucent Team Meets MOJ and HMPPS Officials
TransLucent criticises the Oxford Literacy Festival’s decision to platform gender-critical activists Helen Joyce and Julie Bindel, viewing it as discriminatory and transphobic due to their anti-transgender views and the nature of the gender-critical movement. Continue Reading Statement Regarding Oxford Literacy Festival Helen Joyce and Julie Bindel
J.K. Rowling’s campaign against transgender rights, framed as safeguarding women, is statistically misdirected as UK data shows sexual violence predominantly comes from known individuals and figures of authority, not the transgender community, who themselves are disproportionately victims of crime. Continue Reading J.K. Rowling’s Transgender Campaign: Misogyny’s Quiet Escape
This opinion piece, titled “Naomi Cunningham barrister and Amery and Mondon’s analysis of transphobia” analyses Naomi Cunningham’s views and actions regarding trans rights through the lens of organised transphobia, highlighting her alignment with gender-critical movements and the harmful impacts this has on transgender people. Continue Reading Naomi Cunningham barrister and Amery and Mondon’s analysis of transphobia
This Briefing Note outlines that while the Equality Act 2010 protects the right to hold gender-critical beliefs, the expression of these beliefs is not protected if it results in detriment or harassment towards transgender individuals, who are also protected under the Act due to their protected characteristic of gender reassignment. Continue Reading Gender critical beliefs and the Equality Act 2010
Trump Administration policies and rhetoric constitute a systematic attack on transgender rights that, when analysed through the lens of genocide frameworks like the Genocide Convention and Stanton’s Ten Stages of Genocide, may indicate the early stages of a transgender genocide. Continue Reading Defining Genocide: The Systematic Attack on Transgender Rights in the United States
The NHS’s puberty-blockers trial is a danger to children – a response” argues that the evidence base for puberty blockers is scientific, not ideological, and criticises the gender-critical movement for manipulating science and being linked to anti-LGBT hate groups. Continue Reading The NHS puberty-blockers trial is a danger to children – a response
This review critiques Helen Joyce’s “Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality,” focusing on its arguments against gender identity ideology and its potential impact on transgender rights.
Continue Reading Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality by Helen Joyce – Book Review
Enemy Feminisms by Sophie Lewis examines the feminist movement, highlighting its contradictions and historical alignments with oppressive ideologies, particularly the connection between gender-critical activism and the far right. Continue Reading Enemy Feminisms by Sophie Lewis
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