Browsing: Transgender

At Translucent, we strive to advance visibility, social acceptance, legal recognition, and improve healthcare for the UK’s transgender and gender-diverse community. Articles concerning transgender issues in order to:

  • Promote trans acceptance: Our website tries to promote trans acceptance in society and is an online magazine with reports and articles for trans folk and allies.
  • Counter trans ideology: Our articles aim to explore entries within the online search of the phrase ‘trans ideology’. We also fight the slur of “trans ideology”.
  • Address misinformation and disinformation: TransLucent is addressing misinformation and disinformation about Transgender & Gender Diverse lives, experiences, rights, and healthcare.
  • Investigate hostile organizations: We investigate organisations & groups who are hostile to the trans community and existence.
  • Address negative reporting: We challenge the negative reporting of trans rights issues within national newspapers. We also confront the negative press that the term “trans ideology” brings.
  • Promote understanding: We debunk tropes and aim to help people unpick truth from lies. We offer a new perspective on what is happening behind the scenes.
  • Campaign for visibility, acceptance, legal recognition and healthcare. We advocate for the inclusion of trans & non-binary people in sports.
  • Monitor public bodies: We monitor the activities of multiple public bodies which have increasingly become oppositional and damaging to the trans community.
  • Mythbusting: we have articles addressing misinformation and disinformation about Transgender & Gender Diverse lives, experiences, rights and healthcare.
  • Activism: As trans rights activists, we try to avoid reading articles from what we call “the dark side”.
  • Offer support: We provide resources and organisations for transgender and gender-diverse people.
  • Recognise trans people as real: We recognise that there is no such thing as ‘trans ideology’ or ‘gender ideology’ – just trans people.
  • Tackle direct discrimination by reviews such as the Cass Review.
  • Advocate for the UK’s transgender and gender-diverse community so to advance visibility, social acceptance, legal recognition and improve healthcare.
  • Challenge gender-critical arguments by delving into the scientific aspects of transgender women’s participation in sports.