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.
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
The Scotsman article reinforces transphobic discourse by framing the gender debate as a conflict between trans rights and women’s rights, employing moral panics, exclusionary rhetoric, and “othering” of trans people.
Continue Reading The Scotsman Sarwar and Swinney must now accept the circle cannot be squared on gender debate – a response.
Robin Moira White argues that Workplace (Health Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 should not be used to exclude transgender employees from facilities, because the regulations were intended to address the lack of facilities for women, predate consideration of transgender people in legislation, and lack definitions of “male” and “female”.
Continue Reading Transgender employees, toilets, changing rooms and the Workplace (Health Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992
The Cass Report is controversial because many organisations have criticised it, contrasting it with the more transparent Swiss Report which contradicts Cass in its approach to treatment, evidence, and data interpretation. Continue Reading The Cass Report Scandal
Peter Rainford, a trans ally, discusses the their experiences with and observations on the growing acceptance and subsequent rise of anti-trans activism. Continue Reading We must speak up for our transgender siblings
Paul Embery’s blog (21st February 2025) post raises concerns about the trade union movement’s stance on sex-based rights and transgender issues. While Paul positions himself as a defender of women’s rights, a closer look at his arguments may reveal potential transphobic undertones. Continue Reading Trade Unions Have A Woman Problem – A Response to Paul Embery’s Blog
The interplay of chromosomes, hormones, and anatomy, along with conditions like Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, complicate the traditional binary definition of sex, leading experts to view it as a spectrum. Continue Reading Beyond XX and XY – The Spectrum of Sex
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