Transiness
@transiness.bsky.social
Research-led project focused on safeguarding, access, and structural harms affecting transitioned women. We publish institutional analysis, audits, guidance, and reflective work reclaiming epistemic authority.
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Safeguarding and Protection Failures for Transitioned Women Experiencing Domestic and Sexual Violence -
An evidence-led briefing analysing safeguarding and protection pathway failures affecting transitioned women experiencing domestic and sexual violence in England.
transiness.com
The Transiness Safeguarding Report 2026 has now been finalised and published.
It documents systemic safeguarding routing failures within sexual and domestic violence services affecting transitioned women, grounded in statutory duties and trauma-informed practice.
transiness.com?p=536
It documents systemic safeguarding routing failures within sexual and domestic violence services affecting transitioned women, grounded in statutory duties and trauma-informed practice.
transiness.com?p=536
Survivor input is welcome as part of our UK safeguarding review of sexual violence support services.
We assess publicly visible pathways - the information people rely on when deciding whether a service feels safe to approach.
We assess publicly visible pathways - the information people rely on when deciding whether a service feels safe to approach.
Our draft Welsh audit of sexual violence services is now available. We will continue refining the report as services provide clarification.
✅ Evidence-led methodology
✅ Structural safeguarding analysis
🛟Designed to support safer help-seeking.
transiness.com?p=725
✅ Evidence-led methodology
✅ Structural safeguarding analysis
🛟Designed to support safer help-seeking.
transiness.com?p=725
Finding Safety: Sexual Violence Services in Wales - Transiness
An audit of Welsh sexual violence support services assessing front-door accessibility, inclusion clarity for transitioned women (trans women), and safeguarding risk—supporting safer help-seeking decis...
transiness.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Survivor input is welcome as part of our UK safeguarding review of sexual violence support services.
We assess publicly visible pathways - the information people rely on when deciding whether a service feels safe to approach.
We assess publicly visible pathways - the information people rely on when deciding whether a service feels safe to approach.
From a personal or organisational perspective, it's probably good if you respond to this consultation (we've done our bit)
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Britain’s Story: The Next Chapter - BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation
www.gov.uk
February 1, 2026 at 8:11 PM
From a personal or organisational perspective, it's probably good if you respond to this consultation (we've done our bit)
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Five years since Newcastle University's One of the Lasses report highlighted the systemic barriers faced by transitioned women in abuse support services, little has changed. Our latest audits reveal that many services remain unsafe for transitioned women.
www.ncl.ac.uk/mediav8/gps/...
www.ncl.ac.uk/mediav8/gps/...
www.ncl.ac.uk
February 1, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Five years since Newcastle University's One of the Lasses report highlighted the systemic barriers faced by transitioned women in abuse support services, little has changed. Our latest audits reveal that many services remain unsafe for transitioned women.
www.ncl.ac.uk/mediav8/gps/...
www.ncl.ac.uk/mediav8/gps/...
Our draft Welsh audit of sexual violence services is now available. We will continue refining the report as services provide clarification.
✅ Evidence-led methodology
✅ Structural safeguarding analysis
🛟Designed to support safer help-seeking.
transiness.com?p=725
✅ Evidence-led methodology
✅ Structural safeguarding analysis
🛟Designed to support safer help-seeking.
transiness.com?p=725
Finding Safety: Sexual Violence Services in Wales - Transiness
An audit of Welsh sexual violence support services assessing front-door accessibility, inclusion clarity for transitioned women (trans women), and safeguarding risk—supporting safer help-seeking decis...
transiness.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Our draft Welsh audit of sexual violence services is now available. We will continue refining the report as services provide clarification.
✅ Evidence-led methodology
✅ Structural safeguarding analysis
🛟Designed to support safer help-seeking.
transiness.com?p=725
✅ Evidence-led methodology
✅ Structural safeguarding analysis
🛟Designed to support safer help-seeking.
transiness.com?p=725
We've released our draft review of Scottish sexual violence services. We're clarifying now and may content and adjust accordingly.
✅We show our working, and our methodology for every service listed
🛟It's a first of its kind, shifting responsibility from survivors to services
transiness.com?p=710
✅We show our working, and our methodology for every service listed
🛟It's a first of its kind, shifting responsibility from survivors to services
transiness.com?p=710
Finding Safety: Sexual Violence Services in Scotland - %
A safeguarding audit of sexual violence services in Scotland, analysing service design, access, and institutional harm affecting transitioned women.
transiness.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:10 AM
We've released our draft review of Scottish sexual violence services. We're clarifying now and may content and adjust accordingly.
✅We show our working, and our methodology for every service listed
🛟It's a first of its kind, shifting responsibility from survivors to services
transiness.com?p=710
✅We show our working, and our methodology for every service listed
🛟It's a first of its kind, shifting responsibility from survivors to services
transiness.com?p=710
We cope by just ignoring it, pretending it doesn't matter, pretending we don't matter.
This cannot continue to be unaddressed.
This cannot continue to be unaddressed.
January 29, 2026 at 10:51 PM
We cope by just ignoring it, pretending it doesn't matter, pretending we don't matter.
This cannot continue to be unaddressed.
This cannot continue to be unaddressed.
I've been groped by men as well. The cis women with me were horrified. I did nothing, for exactly the same reasons as this young woman.
This just underlines how natal sex classification excludes transition from any reprieve from male sexual assault.
This just underlines how natal sex classification excludes transition from any reprieve from male sexual assault.
January 29, 2026 at 10:49 PM
I've been groped by men as well. The cis women with me were horrified. I did nothing, for exactly the same reasons as this young woman.
This just underlines how natal sex classification excludes transition from any reprieve from male sexual assault.
This just underlines how natal sex classification excludes transition from any reprieve from male sexual assault.
I spoke to a young transitioned woman today. She had been sexually assaulted twice on the train by different men in recent months.
She doesn't seek justice because it's unattainable. Because she'll be scrutinised by services that think her breasts are "male", and re-traumatised in the process.
She doesn't seek justice because it's unattainable. Because she'll be scrutinised by services that think her breasts are "male", and re-traumatised in the process.
January 29, 2026 at 10:46 PM
I spoke to a young transitioned woman today. She had been sexually assaulted twice on the train by different men in recent months.
She doesn't seek justice because it's unattainable. Because she'll be scrutinised by services that think her breasts are "male", and re-traumatised in the process.
She doesn't seek justice because it's unattainable. Because she'll be scrutinised by services that think her breasts are "male", and re-traumatised in the process.
This is not just a report for commissioners, regulators, and services.
This is a report for all transitioned women who are survivors.
So many of you have said: “That was me.”
You are seen.
You are recognised.
You are held within these pages.
This is a report for all transitioned women who are survivors.
So many of you have said: “That was me.”
You are seen.
You are recognised.
You are held within these pages.
The Transiness Safeguarding Report 2026 has now been finalised and published.
It documents systemic safeguarding routing failures within sexual and domestic violence services affecting transitioned women, grounded in statutory duties and trauma-informed practice.
transiness.com?p=536
It documents systemic safeguarding routing failures within sexual and domestic violence services affecting transitioned women, grounded in statutory duties and trauma-informed practice.
transiness.com?p=536
Safeguarding and Protection Failures for Transitioned Women Experiencing Domestic and Sexual Violence -
An evidence-led briefing analysing safeguarding and protection pathway failures affecting transitioned women experiencing domestic and sexual violence in England.
transiness.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:24 PM
This is not just a report for commissioners, regulators, and services.
This is a report for all transitioned women who are survivors.
So many of you have said: “That was me.”
You are seen.
You are recognised.
You are held within these pages.
This is a report for all transitioned women who are survivors.
So many of you have said: “That was me.”
You are seen.
You are recognised.
You are held within these pages.
The Transiness Safeguarding Report 2026 has now been finalised and published.
It documents systemic safeguarding routing failures within sexual and domestic violence services affecting transitioned women, grounded in statutory duties and trauma-informed practice.
transiness.com?p=536
It documents systemic safeguarding routing failures within sexual and domestic violence services affecting transitioned women, grounded in statutory duties and trauma-informed practice.
transiness.com?p=536
Safeguarding and Protection Failures for Transitioned Women Experiencing Domestic and Sexual Violence -
An evidence-led briefing analysing safeguarding and protection pathway failures affecting transitioned women experiencing domestic and sexual violence in England.
transiness.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:35 AM
The Transiness Safeguarding Report 2026 has now been finalised and published.
It documents systemic safeguarding routing failures within sexual and domestic violence services affecting transitioned women, grounded in statutory duties and trauma-informed practice.
transiness.com?p=536
It documents systemic safeguarding routing failures within sexual and domestic violence services affecting transitioned women, grounded in statutory duties and trauma-informed practice.
transiness.com?p=536
Any idea of a timescale for when this is going to be put together properly?
January 28, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Any idea of a timescale for when this is going to be put together properly?
If you are seeking help now, we'll be happy to send you the provisional report for your local centre.
transinessadmin@protonmail.com
You do not need to disclose why you need help or your personal situation, just the centre you are considering.
transinessadmin@protonmail.com
You do not need to disclose why you need help or your personal situation, just the centre you are considering.
January 27, 2026 at 8:57 PM
If you are seeking help now, we'll be happy to send you the provisional report for your local centre.
transinessadmin@protonmail.com
You do not need to disclose why you need help or your personal situation, just the centre you are considering.
transinessadmin@protonmail.com
You do not need to disclose why you need help or your personal situation, just the centre you are considering.
We will now contact all services except those assessed as high safeguarding risk to invite feedback on our structured audit and assessment.
This process supports accuracy, transparency, and continuous improvement, ensuring survivors can navigate support services with clarity and confidence.
This process supports accuracy, transparency, and continuous improvement, ensuring survivors can navigate support services with clarity and confidence.
January 27, 2026 at 8:52 PM
We will now contact all services except those assessed as high safeguarding risk to invite feedback on our structured audit and assessment.
This process supports accuracy, transparency, and continuous improvement, ensuring survivors can navigate support services with clarity and confidence.
This process supports accuracy, transparency, and continuous improvement, ensuring survivors can navigate support services with clarity and confidence.
Out of 15 Scottish rape crisis services reviewed for safeguarding accessibility for transitioned women:
🟢 7 Recommended (low safeguarding risk)
🟡 4 Conditionally recommended (safe with caveats)
🟠 1 Requires direct clarification (moderate risk)
🔴 3 Not recommended (high safeguarding risk)
🟢 7 Recommended (low safeguarding risk)
🟡 4 Conditionally recommended (safe with caveats)
🟠 1 Requires direct clarification (moderate risk)
🔴 3 Not recommended (high safeguarding risk)
January 27, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Out of 15 Scottish rape crisis services reviewed for safeguarding accessibility for transitioned women:
🟢 7 Recommended (low safeguarding risk)
🟡 4 Conditionally recommended (safe with caveats)
🟠 1 Requires direct clarification (moderate risk)
🔴 3 Not recommended (high safeguarding risk)
🟢 7 Recommended (low safeguarding risk)
🟡 4 Conditionally recommended (safe with caveats)
🟠 1 Requires direct clarification (moderate risk)
🔴 3 Not recommended (high safeguarding risk)
Brilliant, thanks for the heads up 💜
January 27, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Brilliant, thanks for the heads up 💜
Yes, but not disclosing is also ethically justified.
January 27, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Yes, but not disclosing is also ethically justified.
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We've just launched the Trans Unity Quilt Project, a campaign by and for trans people across the UK to bring joy and hope with a quilt longer than an Olympic swimming pool.
Here's how you make your own patch. 👇
Here's how you make your own patch. 👇
The Trans Unity Quilt | Good Law Project
Crafting visibility through community, fighting eradication through creation.
goodlawproject.org
January 26, 2026 at 12:51 PM
We've just launched the Trans Unity Quilt Project, a campaign by and for trans people across the UK to bring joy and hope with a quilt longer than an Olympic swimming pool.
Here's how you make your own patch. 👇
Here's how you make your own patch. 👇
** All survivors deserve care without being retraumatised. **
** Without having to trade one wound for another. **
** Without having to trade dignity for hope. **
** Without having to trade one wound for another. **
** Without having to trade dignity for hope. **
January 25, 2026 at 9:12 PM
** All survivors deserve care without being retraumatised. **
** Without having to trade one wound for another. **
** Without having to trade dignity for hope. **
** Without having to trade one wound for another. **
** Without having to trade dignity for hope. **
You are allowed the same standard of care as everyone else.
You shouldn’t have to split yourself, hide parts of your story, or accept lesser support to stay safe.
You shouldn’t have to split yourself, hide parts of your story, or accept lesser support to stay safe.
January 25, 2026 at 9:11 PM
You are allowed the same standard of care as everyone else.
You shouldn’t have to split yourself, hide parts of your story, or accept lesser support to stay safe.
You shouldn’t have to split yourself, hide parts of your story, or accept lesser support to stay safe.
You are allowed to disengage if something feels unsafe.
If something feels off, if you’re explaining too much, or your dignity feels compromised, 🛟 leaving is self-protection.
If something feels off, if you’re explaining too much, or your dignity feels compromised, 🛟 leaving is self-protection.
January 25, 2026 at 9:10 PM
You are allowed to disengage if something feels unsafe.
If something feels off, if you’re explaining too much, or your dignity feels compromised, 🛟 leaving is self-protection.
If something feels off, if you’re explaining too much, or your dignity feels compromised, 🛟 leaving is self-protection.
You are allowed access to care without being forced to disclose your medical history, your “natal sex”, or whether you “identify” as trans.
Abuse is about power over. Care should never recreate those dynamics.
Abuse is about power over. Care should never recreate those dynamics.
January 25, 2026 at 9:10 PM
You are allowed access to care without being forced to disclose your medical history, your “natal sex”, or whether you “identify” as trans.
Abuse is about power over. Care should never recreate those dynamics.
Abuse is about power over. Care should never recreate those dynamics.
Sometimes when we’ve been harmed, we lose track of what reasonable expectations look like.
Here’s what every survivor is allowed to expect from support services 🧵
Here’s what every survivor is allowed to expect from support services 🧵
January 25, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Sometimes when we’ve been harmed, we lose track of what reasonable expectations look like.
Here’s what every survivor is allowed to expect from support services 🧵
Here’s what every survivor is allowed to expect from support services 🧵
😆Awe, it was just a little study I was doing. It was... interesting.
January 25, 2026 at 7:29 PM
😆Awe, it was just a little study I was doing. It was... interesting.
Ah, yes, I remember owning them. I take this as a compliment.
Glad they're being proactive and protecting us from their bs.
Glad they're being proactive and protecting us from their bs.
January 25, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Ah, yes, I remember owning them. I take this as a compliment.
Glad they're being proactive and protecting us from their bs.
Glad they're being proactive and protecting us from their bs.
While America executes its own citizens, in the UK it seems we're happy just to remove any access to health and social care for trans people by mandating disclosure prior to access, and collect names and registers... for now.
January 24, 2026 at 6:27 PM
While America executes its own citizens, in the UK it seems we're happy just to remove any access to health and social care for trans people by mandating disclosure prior to access, and collect names and registers... for now.