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We provide organisations and trans individuals with clear, no-nonsense guidance on UK law and the protections it offers. Whether it’s legal rights, workplace policies, or where you stand, we break it down in a way that makes sense.
Part of @tacc.org.uk
Part of @tacc.org.uk
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Please share this petition to lower the mammogram age to 40 for early cancer detection, approximately 1 in 6 breast cancer cases occur in women aged 40–49.
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Sign the Petition
Lower mammogram age to 40 for early cancer detection
www.change.org
September 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Please share this petition to lower the mammogram age to 40 for early cancer detection, approximately 1 in 6 breast cancer cases occur in women aged 40–49.
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Over 8,600 people have told Reform: stop exploiting women's safety for your personal gains
Will you help us reach 10,000?
Take action now 👇
https://action.goodlawproject.org/tell-reform-stop-exploiting-women%E2%80%99s-safety-fuel-attacks-migrants
Will you help us reach 10,000?
Take action now 👇
https://action.goodlawproject.org/tell-reform-stop-exploiting-women%E2%80%99s-safety-fuel-attacks-migrants
Tell Reform to stop exploiting women’s safety to fuel attacks on migrants
Reform UK is pushing racist claims that migrants are a threat to women’s safety. This toxic narrative paints an entire group of people as inherently dangerous. But there’s no credible evidence to back...
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September 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Over 8,600 people have told Reform: stop exploiting women's safety for your personal gains
Will you help us reach 10,000?
Take action now 👇
https://action.goodlawproject.org/tell-reform-stop-exploiting-women%E2%80%99s-safety-fuel-attacks-migrants
Will you help us reach 10,000?
Take action now 👇
https://action.goodlawproject.org/tell-reform-stop-exploiting-women%E2%80%99s-safety-fuel-attacks-migrants
Please share this petition to lower the mammogram age to 40 for early cancer detection, approximately 1 in 6 breast cancer cases occur in women aged 40–49.
www.change.org/p/lower-mamm...
www.change.org/p/lower-mamm...
Sign the Petition
Lower mammogram age to 40 for early cancer detection
www.change.org
September 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Please share this petition to lower the mammogram age to 40 for early cancer detection, approximately 1 in 6 breast cancer cases occur in women aged 40–49.
www.change.org/p/lower-mamm...
www.change.org/p/lower-mamm...
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The fact people didn’t pick up on trans sports bans being bullshit after the chess one makes me really disappointed in people
July 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The fact people didn’t pick up on trans sports bans being bullshit after the chess one makes me really disappointed in people
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The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found.
tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
FOI Exposes EHRC Bias: Private Meetings, Legal Echoes, and Policy Capture - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
Let’s be honest. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is not acting like a neutral regulator. It is not standing above the fray.
tacc.org.uk
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found.
tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
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NEW: We’ve uncovered how the EHRC met behind closed doors twice with anti-trans group Sex Matters to discuss rolling back trans rights. What they said will alarm you. 1/6
tacc.org.uk/2025/06/23/h...
tacc.org.uk/2025/06/23/h...
How the EHRC Enabled an Anti-Trans Agenda - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
The meeting between the EHRC and Sex Matters shows a human rights body quietly aligning with those seeking to remove rights from a vulnerable minority.
tacc.org.uk
June 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
NEW: We’ve uncovered how the EHRC met behind closed doors twice with anti-trans group Sex Matters to discuss rolling back trans rights. What they said will alarm you. 1/6
tacc.org.uk/2025/06/23/h...
tacc.org.uk/2025/06/23/h...
This is a major step forward in protecting women from criminalisation for making decisions about their own pregnancies.
Tonia Antoniazzi MP’s amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill, supported by the BMA and BPAS, passed with a landslide majority of 242 votes.
Tonia Antoniazzi MP’s amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill, supported by the BMA and BPAS, passed with a landslide majority of 242 votes.
MPs take historic first step to defend reproductive rights.
Women will no longer face the threat of prosecution for taking decisions about their lives and families - but the fight is far from over
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Women will no longer face the threat of prosecution for taking decisions about their lives and families - but the fight is far from over
goodlawproject.org/mps-take-his...
MPs take historic first step to defend reproductive rights
Women could no longer face the threat of prosecution for taking decisions about their lives and their families – but the fight is far from over
goodlawproject.org
June 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This is a major step forward in protecting women from criminalisation for making decisions about their own pregnancies.
Tonia Antoniazzi MP’s amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill, supported by the BMA and BPAS, passed with a landslide majority of 242 votes.
Tonia Antoniazzi MP’s amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill, supported by the BMA and BPAS, passed with a landslide majority of 242 votes.
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We’ve published a guide to help you respond to the consultation without burning out. It includes response templates you can adapt, advice on protecting your mental health while engaging, and suggestions for how to personalise your answers so they have more impact.
tacc.org.uk/2025/06/09/r...
tacc.org.uk/2025/06/09/r...
Responding Without Burning Out: A Guide to the EHRC Code of Practice Consultation - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
The EHRC’s 2025 draft Code of Practice consultation is one of the most damaging pieces of institutional guidance we’ve seen in recent memory.
tacc.org.uk
June 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We’ve published a guide to help you respond to the consultation without burning out. It includes response templates you can adapt, advice on protecting your mental health while engaging, and suggestions for how to personalise your answers so they have more impact.
tacc.org.uk/2025/06/09/r...
tacc.org.uk/2025/06/09/r...
This cruelty must end.
MPs from across parties are backing #SupportNC1 to the Crime and Policing Bill, a simple change that removes women from the criminal law while keeping all current abortion regulations in place.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
MPs from across parties are backing #SupportNC1 to the Crime and Policing Bill, a simple change that removes women from the criminal law while keeping all current abortion regulations in place.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
May 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
This cruelty must end.
MPs from across parties are backing #SupportNC1 to the Crime and Policing Bill, a simple change that removes women from the criminal law while keeping all current abortion regulations in place.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
MPs from across parties are backing #SupportNC1 to the Crime and Policing Bill, a simple change that removes women from the criminal law while keeping all current abortion regulations in place.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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A dear friend of mine so poorly let down by @carladenyer.bsky.social and Bristol council. He’s disabled, trans, attempted suicide multiple times and yet he’s forced into unsuitable housing that’s leaving him stranded. As the council is making him move his MP will now change too. How bad can this
May 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
A dear friend of mine so poorly let down by @carladenyer.bsky.social and Bristol council. He’s disabled, trans, attempted suicide multiple times and yet he’s forced into unsuitable housing that’s leaving him stranded. As the council is making him move his MP will now change too. How bad can this
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Yesterday, across England and Wales, 190 ads went live in support of our campaign to reform our cruel and archaic abortion law and protect women and girls from...
🚫 Life imprisonment
🚫 Arrests straight from hospital wards
🚫 Homes searched
🚫 Children taken away
Email your MP at bpas-campaigns.org
🚫 Life imprisonment
🚫 Arrests straight from hospital wards
🚫 Homes searched
🚫 Children taken away
Email your MP at bpas-campaigns.org
May 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Yesterday, across England and Wales, 190 ads went live in support of our campaign to reform our cruel and archaic abortion law and protect women and girls from...
🚫 Life imprisonment
🚫 Arrests straight from hospital wards
🚫 Homes searched
🚫 Children taken away
Email your MP at bpas-campaigns.org
🚫 Life imprisonment
🚫 Arrests straight from hospital wards
🚫 Homes searched
🚫 Children taken away
Email your MP at bpas-campaigns.org
At Gender Matters, we believe in every woman’s right to bodily autonomy, and that includes the right to a safe, legal abortion without fear or criminalisation.
Right now in England and Wales, abortion is still criminalised under a Victorian law from 1861. That’s unacceptable.
Right now in England and Wales, abortion is still criminalised under a Victorian law from 1861. That’s unacceptable.
We Stand for All Women’s Rights – Including the Right to Abortion – Gender Matters
gender-matters.org
May 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
At Gender Matters, we believe in every woman’s right to bodily autonomy, and that includes the right to a safe, legal abortion without fear or criminalisation.
Right now in England and Wales, abortion is still criminalised under a Victorian law from 1861. That’s unacceptable.
Right now in England and Wales, abortion is still criminalised under a Victorian law from 1861. That’s unacceptable.
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EXPOSED: Sex Matters met privately with EHRC leadership in Sept, just months before major guidance changes, pushing anti-trans framing under the guise of “clarity.”
TACC obtained the documents via FOI.
tacc.org.uk/2025/05/23/i...
TACC obtained the documents via FOI.
tacc.org.uk/2025/05/23/i...
Inside Access, Outside Influence: How Sex Matters Is Shaping the EHRC's Agenda - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
TACC (Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective) can now reveal, through documents obtained via a Freedom of Information request, that in early September 2024, the anti-trans lobbying group Sex…
tacc.org.uk
May 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
EXPOSED: Sex Matters met privately with EHRC leadership in Sept, just months before major guidance changes, pushing anti-trans framing under the guise of “clarity.”
TACC obtained the documents via FOI.
tacc.org.uk/2025/05/23/i...
TACC obtained the documents via FOI.
tacc.org.uk/2025/05/23/i...
While the EHRC claims to be interpreting the Equality Act 2010 in line with recent Supreme Court precedent, its approach raises serious legal concerns under other legislation.
gender-matters.org/law/legal-br...
gender-matters.org/law/legal-br...
Legal Breaches Hidden in Plain Sight: EHRC’s Draft Code May Violate The Law – Gender Matters
gender-matters.org
May 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
While the EHRC claims to be interpreting the Equality Act 2010 in line with recent Supreme Court precedent, its approach raises serious legal concerns under other legislation.
gender-matters.org/law/legal-br...
gender-matters.org/law/legal-br...
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EHRC new consultation isn’t just about trans rights, it’s about all of us.
Cis women are already being challenged in toilets. Disabled people, ethnic groups, and gender non-conforming people are at most risk.
This will be impossible to police and expensive to enforce
tacc.org.uk/2025/05/19/t...
Cis women are already being challenged in toilets. Disabled people, ethnic groups, and gender non-conforming people are at most risk.
This will be impossible to police and expensive to enforce
tacc.org.uk/2025/05/19/t...
May 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
EHRC new consultation isn’t just about trans rights, it’s about all of us.
Cis women are already being challenged in toilets. Disabled people, ethnic groups, and gender non-conforming people are at most risk.
This will be impossible to police and expensive to enforce
tacc.org.uk/2025/05/19/t...
Cis women are already being challenged in toilets. Disabled people, ethnic groups, and gender non-conforming people are at most risk.
This will be impossible to police and expensive to enforce
tacc.org.uk/2025/05/19/t...
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'They said: “Most people, including some fairly senior ones, had no idea the interim guidance was coming until it was published late on the Friday evening.
They woke up to texts from family members and friends saying: ‘What’s going on?’ 🧵1/2
They woke up to texts from family members and friends saying: ‘What’s going on?’ 🧵1/2
UK equality watchdog to extend gender guidance consultation, say insiders www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK equality watchdog to extend gender guidance consultation, say insiders
Exclusive: Six-week deliberation asked for by Commons committee expected to be granted after internal backlash
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
'They said: “Most people, including some fairly senior ones, had no idea the interim guidance was coming until it was published late on the Friday evening.
They woke up to texts from family members and friends saying: ‘What’s going on?’ 🧵1/2
They woke up to texts from family members and friends saying: ‘What’s going on?’ 🧵1/2
From prison rights to pensions, from parenting to paperwork, trans people have been quietly winning vital legal protections in UK & European courts for decades.
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gender-matters.org/law/the-quie...
The Quiet Victories: UK and ECHR Cases That Affirmed Trans Rights – Gender Matters
gender-matters.org
May 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
From prison rights to pensions, from parenting to paperwork, trans people have been quietly winning vital legal protections in UK & European courts for decades.
gender-matters.org/law/the-quie...
gender-matters.org/law/the-quie...
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The House of Lords have passed NC21 again to be sent back to the House of Commons for a further vote on the data bill amendments:
votes.parliament.uk/votes/lords/...
votes.parliament.uk/votes/lords/...
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - Lords' votes in Parliament - UK Parliament
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
votes.parliament.uk
May 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The House of Lords have passed NC21 again to be sent back to the House of Commons for a further vote on the data bill amendments:
votes.parliament.uk/votes/lords/...
votes.parliament.uk/votes/lords/...
Trans rights in UK law go back decades.
Since 1999, the Sex Discrimination Act has protected trans people based on gender, not legal or biological sex.
That principle lives on in the Equality Act 2010.
We fought for it, in court and in Parliament.
gender-matters.org/law/sex-disc...
Since 1999, the Sex Discrimination Act has protected trans people based on gender, not legal or biological sex.
That principle lives on in the Equality Act 2010.
We fought for it, in court and in Parliament.
gender-matters.org/law/sex-disc...
Sex Discrimination Act: The Forgotten Trans Rights Landmark – Gender Matters
gender-matters.org
May 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Trans rights in UK law go back decades.
Since 1999, the Sex Discrimination Act has protected trans people based on gender, not legal or biological sex.
That principle lives on in the Equality Act 2010.
We fought for it, in court and in Parliament.
gender-matters.org/law/sex-disc...
Since 1999, the Sex Discrimination Act has protected trans people based on gender, not legal or biological sex.
That principle lives on in the Equality Act 2010.
We fought for it, in court and in Parliament.
gender-matters.org/law/sex-disc...
By defining “sex” in the Equality Act as “biological,” it ignored key case law, EHRC guidance, and even Parliament’s intent.
This isn’t just a reinterpretation. It’s a rollback.
We broke down what the Court left out.
gender-matters.org/law/ignored-...
This isn’t just a reinterpretation. It’s a rollback.
We broke down what the Court left out.
gender-matters.org/law/ignored-...
Ignored Legal Authorities, Principles and Precedents in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2025] – Gender Matters
gender-matters.org
May 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
By defining “sex” in the Equality Act as “biological,” it ignored key case law, EHRC guidance, and even Parliament’s intent.
This isn’t just a reinterpretation. It’s a rollback.
We broke down what the Court left out.
gender-matters.org/law/ignored-...
This isn’t just a reinterpretation. It’s a rollback.
We broke down what the Court left out.
gender-matters.org/law/ignored-...
🚨 Misinformation about transgender rights is everywhere, but the Equality Act 2010 is clear.
We break down the legal protections trans people have in the UK, debunk common myths, and explain what the law actually says.
gender-matters.org/law/transgen...
Accessible copies are also available.
We break down the legal protections trans people have in the UK, debunk common myths, and explain what the law actually says.
gender-matters.org/law/transgen...
Accessible copies are also available.
Transgender Rights Under the Equality Act 2010: Exposing Misinformation and Understanding Your Legal Protections – Gender Matters
gender-matters.org
March 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨 Misinformation about transgender rights is everywhere, but the Equality Act 2010 is clear.
We break down the legal protections trans people have in the UK, debunk common myths, and explain what the law actually says.
gender-matters.org/law/transgen...
Accessible copies are also available.
We break down the legal protections trans people have in the UK, debunk common myths, and explain what the law actually says.
gender-matters.org/law/transgen...
Accessible copies are also available.