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Scottish Trans
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Working for gender identity and gender reassignment equality and rights in Scotland. Part of @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social

https://www.scottishtrans.org/
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We asked trans and non-binary people in Scotland about their experiences in their local neighbourhood, including how included they felt in their local community or accessing local support services and spaces.
Graphic with a green background. In a white box it says "Nearly a quarter (23%) of trans and non-binary people told us that they felt their trans status had a negative impact on their experience of their neighbourhood." In the top left corner is a line illustration of a block of flats with a tree next to it. Graphic with a green background. In a white speech bubble it says “I have been harassed outside of my home, and when walking around my local area. I feel unsafe to go out, and will often take longer routes than necessary in order to avoid certain areas where I feel particularly unsafe around the people that live there.” In the bottom left corner is a line illustration of a block of flats with a tree next to it.
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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We asked trans and nonbinary people in Scotland about their experiences of accessing their GP and recieving healthcare, including the barriers they may face.
Graphic with a green background. In a white box it says "Only 40% of trans and non-binary people rated the care provided by their GP as “excellent” or “good” compared to 66% of the general population." In the bottom right corner is a line illustration of a heart with a plus symbol on top of it. Graphic with a green background. In a white box it says "OThe biggest theme that emerged from people telling us about their GP was a lack of knowledge around trans healthcare. Other common themes were: • Poor treatment from GPs and staff • Issues with shared care (whether with NHS or private prescribers) • Problems with referrals to other services • Issues with administrative changes" In the top left corner is a line illustration of a heart with a plus symbol on top of it.
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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We've worked with Paul McLennan MSP to submit a motion to the Scottish Parliament to recognise Transgender Awareness Week, and Trans Remembrance Day, in the Scottish Parliament.

You can read the motion in full here: www.parliament.scot/.../votes-an...
Graphic with a pink, blue and white gradient background. It says "Ask your MSP to support motion S6M-19547, to mark Transgender Awareness Week in the Scottish Parliament." There is a screenshot of the motion text. It says "That the Parliament recognises 13 to 19 November 2025 as Transgender Awareness Week (TAW), and 20 November as Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR); notes that TAW is intended to increase understanding of trans and non-binary people, highlight their achievements and diversity as a community, and bring attention to the issues that they can face; believes that trans and non-binary people can face many barriers in their daily lives in Scotland, including in employment, education, housing and using public services, as detailed in the Scottish Trans and Non-binary Experiences: Research Report, published by Scottish Trans in July 2024; recognises that the 2022 Census data recorded that nearly 20,000 trans and non-binary people live in Scotland, and that every MSP will have trans and non-binary constituents, and indeed many MSPs will have trans and non-binary friends, family members and colleagues; understands that TDoR is an international day of mourning, where trans people and allies across the world hold vigils to remember those they have lost to anti-trans violence, and encourages MSPs to promote what it sees as the importance of addressing discrimination, inequality and violence faced by trans and non-binary people, and to make decisions all year round that seek to improve their lives and make Scotland a safer and more inclusive place to live for everyone."
November 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Trans Awareness Week starts today, running until Wednesday 19th. Every day for the next week we’ll be sharing some key figures from our Scottish Trans and Non-binary Experiences Report. You can read the full report and the shorter summary report here: www.scottishtrans.org/our-work/res...
Scottish Trans and Non-binary Experiences Report - Scottish Trans
Home » Our Work » Research » Scottish Trans and Non-binary Experiences Report
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November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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We Can't Keep Waiting, a day of action to create a better future for trans healthcare in Scotland, takes place next Saturday, 22nd November at the Pyramid at Anderston in Glasgow!

The event is for trans and nonbinary people only - sign up for your ticket here: www.outsavvy.com/event/30917/...
Graphic with a black background. It says "We Can't Keep Waiting - Take Action for trans healthcare!" "The Pyramid at Anderston Glasgow 22nd November 10am-4pm" There are two pink boxes. The first box has the House Ball Scotland logo and says: "House Ball Scotland" "In this workshop Nxa and Zulaa 007 from the Scottish ballroom scene will give an introduction to underground ballroom culture and to ways of exploring gender expression, physicality and confidence building through the artform of runway. Bring a look you feel great in, if you wish! All levels welcome, QTBIPOC to the front." The second box has the Houseball Scotland and Trans Healthcare Access Glasgow logos. It says: "House Ball Scotland and Trans Healthcare Access Glasgow" "'Mutual Aid for Trans Liberation' - How to start practically supporting each other and building support systems that are by us, for us"
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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⚖️ HEARING UNDERWAY ⚖️

Our challenge to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s interim guidance has begun in the High Court.
https://goodlaw.social/gf1s
We’re taking on the EHRC interim guidance in court
After more than six months of disruption unleashed by the EHRC’s guidance, we’re arguing at the High Court that it is legally flawed.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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We wanted to share some more updates following April’s Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010, and some ways that you can help.

Read our full update here: www.scottishtrans.org/supreme-cour...
A graphic with a pink a blue gradient background. In the centre there is a purple box, with white text that reads "Some more thoughts and updates following the Supreme Court ruling". Underneath this text are the Equality Network and Scottish Trans logos.
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Trans Day of Rememberance (TDoR) is coming upon the 20th November.

Across Scotland, different groups are holding remembrance vigils and events, which we have gathered below in a list. If you know of others that aren't on the list, please reply and we'll add them.
Graphic with a black background. It says "Trans Day of Rememberance 2025". Below are drawings of lit candles in the trans flag colours, and the Scottish Trans logo.
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Are you a rural trans or non-binary person in Highland or Argyll and Bute? NHS Highland Public Health have partnered with Scottish Trans to conduct trans-led research on experiences of GP practices.

Take part in this important research: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/RTHTNBSurv...
Graphic with a light blue background. At the top are small drawings of the trans and nonbinary flags, the Scottish Trans, NHS Highland and Public Health Scotland logos. It says "Trans People Needed for Rural Research - Rural Transgender Health: Primary Care Experiences The survey can be found at: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/RTHTNBSurvey" There is a drawing of a computer with a webpage of a survey. "Chance to win one of 3 x £100 vouchers"
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Trans Awareness Week starts next Thursday (followed by Trans Day of Remembrance) so we've worked with Paul McLennan MSP to submit a motion to Scottish Parliament to recognise this important time for our community.

You can read the motion in full here: www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
scottishtrans.bsky.social
Just over two weeks to go until 'We Can't Keep Waiting', a day of action and collaboration to push for trans healthcare in Scotland. We're collaborating with some incredible community organisations and groups - sign up for your ticket here!

www.outsavvy.com/event/30917/...
Graphic with a black background. It says "We Can't Keep Waiting - Take Action for trans healthcare!" "The Pyramid at Anderston Glasgow 22nd November 10am-4pm" "In Collaboration With" and the logos for: Glasgow Trans Collective, LGBT Health and Wellbeing, UBelong, Trans Kids Deserve Better Scotland, Trans Harm Reduction, LEAP Sports, Trans Healthcare Glasgow and House Ball Scotland. "Plus More!"
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Most healthcare professionals want to help their patients and to provide high quality, patient-centred care. But in too many cases, something is stopping them.
Text Reads: Healthcare Professionals Report 2025. Less than half of respondents reported feeling very or extremely comfortable in their abilities to support their trans patients. Learn how best to support trans patients by visiting transactual.org.uk/healthcare-professionals . Image shows a person wearing light blue scrubs a face mask and hair net with a stethoscope. Text Reads: Healthcare Professionals Report 2025. “I have trans/non-binary friends. However, [I] don’t know what resources are out there to further support medical patients.”- NHS Allied Health Professional working in general practice. Learn how best to support trans patients by visiting transactual.org.uk/healthcare-professionals . Image shows a person with brown curly hair wearing a white coat and stethoscope. Text Reads: Healthcare Professionals Report 2025. “Lack of experience makes me nervous. I wouldn’t want to cause harm.”- Private psychotherapist. Learn how best to support trans patients by visiting transactual.org.uk/healthcare-professionals . Image shows a person with short grey hair wearing a navy suit and writing on a clipboard. Text Reads: Healthcare Professionals Report 2025. “It’s an area of work I feel quite strongly about and I try to educate myself outside of work.” -NHS Social worker working in mental health. Learn how best to support trans patients by visiting transactual.org.uk/healthcare-professionals . Image shows a person with short dark hair wearing a blue shirt and lanyard, writing on a notepad.
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Use TransActual and Trans Solidarity Alliance's tool to email your MP and speak up for trans rights and say no to Trans Exclusion - everyone should have the right to live with safety, dignity and care!
transactualuk.bsky.social TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 15d
The EHRhas sent a new draft Code of Practice which would lead to the exclusion of trans people from public life.

The decision now is up to this government, will they sign a trans bathroom ban in secret?

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

#ScrapTheBathroomBan
November 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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We launched our new report in the Houses of Parliament last week.

Report author Dr Jack López presented the report to MPs.

Read the report here: transactual.org.uk/gendered-spa...

#ScrapTheBathroomBan #EHRC #TransRights
November 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
scottishtrans.bsky.social
"What it seems we really crave is to work, love and exist with dignity and, more broadly, the opportunities to thrive. If you gave the dolls that, you’d find most of us could easily protect ourselves."

www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/prot...
The Dolls: ‘What we really crave is to work, love and exist with dignity’
As trans rights face increasing threat in the UK, Glamour honours nine of the community's most ground-breaking voices at this year's Women of the Year Awards. From fashion and music to charity and…
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Under the current law, people who are pregnant in Scotland have no legal right to end a pregnancy and this needs to change. We're supporting 'Let’s change the Act', Scotland’s campaign to decriminalise abortion and reform the Abortion Act 1967 - please join us!

www.letschangetheact.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
scottishtrans.bsky.social
Are you a rural trans or non-binary person in Highland or Argyll and Bute? NHS Highland Public Health have partnered with Scottish Trans to conduct trans-led research on experiences of GP practices.

Take part in this important research: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/RTHTNBSurv...
Graphic with a light blue background. At the top are small drawings of the trans and nonbinary flags, the Scottish Trans, NHS Highland and Public Health Scotland logos. It says "Trans People Needed for Rural Research - Rural Transgender Health: Primary Care Experiences The survey can be found at: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/RTHTNBSurvey" There is a drawing of a computer with a webpage of a survey. "Chance to win one of 3 x £100 vouchers"
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Today, Public Health Scotland released its latest data on waiting times for gender identity services in Scotland. While the data is useful to have, it doesn’t tell the whole story. But it does tell us how appalling waiting times for Sandyford are & that they're just getting worse.

What can you do?
‘Today, new data has been published by Public Health Scotland. The data is useful to have, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. It can tell us how long someone being seen today might have waited for that appointment, but it does not tell us how long someone who joined the waiting list today might expect to wait. This data, plus data gathered through FOI requests shared with Scottish Trans, shows that Sandyford's waiting list continues to get worse. We estimate that someone joining the waiting list today would be expected to wait somewhere between 160 and 660 years. What can we do about it?’
October 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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“We have a responsibility to continue to behave in hopeful ways ... Hope is a verb. It’s an action. It’s got muscle.”

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
‘What I do with my body is none of your business’: musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland on trans rights, cult stardom and living with dementia
His music was ignored for decades. Now, at 81, he is collaborating with pop stars. He and his wife talk about his extraordinary life – and facing severe illness
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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We’ve sent a submission to GANHRI’s accreditation sub-committee to raise concerns about the EHRC’s behaviour since the Supreme Court judgement.

You can read our full statement on our website here: www.scottishtrans.org/8149-2/
Graphic with a pink to blue gradient background. The Equality Network and Scottish Trans logos are at the bottom. It says “We should be able to rely on our national human rights institution to protect and promote the rights of everyone. Instead, we’ve had years of the EHRC frequently acting in ways that make trans people’s lives harder.”
October 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Join this free training to learn more about taking an intersectional approach to your work and how you can better include people with intersectional identities!

Link below ⬇️
lgbtiscotland.bsky.social Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social · 25d
Join us for a free online intersectional equality, diversity and inclusion training session, on 30th Oct at 2pm.

This session is targeted at small organisations or underfunded/unfunded groups.

www.outsavvy.com/event/30908/...
This training will help you to: - Listen to the lived experience of people with intersectional identities. - Learn the best terminology to use about LGBTI people and others. - Identify barriers that people may face to participating in your service. - Increase access and tackle discrimination. - Integrate an intersectional approach across your service. Graphic with colourful circles arranged like bubbles at the top and the bottom of the image. It says "Free Intersectional Equality Diversity and Inclusion Training " Online Thursday 30th October 2pm" The Equality Network logo is at the bottom.
October 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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We're excited to be collaborating with some incredible community organisations for 'We Can't Keep Waiting', they'll be running workshops for trans people from across Scotland to come together and work out how we can care for eachother, and push for the healthcare we vitally need.
Graphic with a black background. It says "We Can't Keep Waiting - Take Action for trans healthcare!" "The Pyramid at Anderston Glasgow 22nd November 10am-4pm" "In Collaboration With" and the logos for: Glasgow Trans Collective, LGBT Health and Wellbeing, UBelong, Trans Kids Deserve Better Scotland, Trans Harm Reduction, LEAP Sports, Trans Healthcare Glasgow" "Plus More!"
October 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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"A blanket ban on access to gender- affirming spaces does not support healing. It retraumatises. It isolates. It tells vulnerable young people that their needs don't matter."

A powerful letter from a parent of a trans child in the National today, calling for the govt. to challenge EHRC guidance.
Guidance from EHRC should be challenged by Labour I WRITE as a feminist and the parent of a trans teenager. I have also spent years working to safeguard women and children. I understand risk- and where harm comes from. I'm writing because of the damage being done by the initial guidance on single-sex spaces from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), and the urgent need for principled leadership from Keir Starmer. The trans community - and by extension, my child - faces hostility, suspicion, and dehumanisation simply for existing. The hatred I see online is terrifying. When politicians fail to stand up for their rights, it sends a chilling message: that trans people are not safe, not welcome, not worthy of dignity. That families like mine don't matter. But it also fails women. It misdirects their fear. The risk to women and children is overwhelmingly from cis men. Women are not safe in their own homes - why are we talking about toilets? This guidance doesn't protect women it undermines us. It shifts the burden of safety onto marginalised groups, rather than addressing the real sources of harm. It tells cis women that their fear should be directed at trans women, rather than at the systems that fail to protect them from male violence. It also divides us. It pits cis women against trans women, when we should be united in fighting misogyny, inequality, and abuse. It distracts from the real battles - like the epidemic of domestic violence, the failures of the justice system, and the rise of online misogyny. It offers a false sense of security while leaving the actual threats untouched. As a feminist, I find this deeply regressive. It's not about protecting women - it's about controlling spaces. And this brings me to the hypocrisy of current safeguarding rhetoric. Politicians claim to be protecting children, yet ignore the fact that many public spaces - swimming pools, for example - are not gendered. Children routinely share spaces with cis men, often with no supervision. No-one seems concerned about safeguarding in those contexts. Male children routinely stand beside adult men exposing themselves at urinals - yet no-one calls for reform in those spaces. Sex offenders are not routinely stopped from using public toilets. But no pearl-clutching for that. Why? Because the concern isn't about safeguarding - it's about targeting trans people under the guise of protection. The current political framing of trans people as a blanket risk is not only inaccurate - it's unethical. It is also incompatible with trauma- informed practice. Blanket bans and exclusionary policies ignore the complexity of trauma, identity, and safety. Trauma-informed work requires us to consider the individual, not to impose rigid categories. It demands that we create environments where people feel safe, seen, and respected. I am astounded that Labour have not yet publicly rejected the EHRC's guidance. Surely their role is to challenge it - not quietly adopt it. It is the role of politicians to lead, to legislate, to protect - not to defer responsibility. The EHRC's proposals are unworkable. They do not support the rights of my trans child. From what I've read, they are focused on exclusion, not inclusion. Are we going to segregate trans youth like it's 1950s America? That seems to be what Wes Streeting is suggesting. Will my child have to walk miles to find a toilet they can safely use? This issue does not exist in a vacuum. Women in the UK face enormous challenges. We have a police force riddled with misogyny. În Scotland alone, there were 65,000 reported domestic abuse incidents last year. We face inequality in healthcare, threats to reproductive rights, and systemic failures in protecting victims of violence. Online misogyny is on the rise. These are the issues that demand urgent attention. Yet here we are talking about single-sex spaces. This is not about protecting women. It is about stoking fear. It is about scapegoating a marginalised group. And it is deeply harmful - not just to trans people, but to all women. All this could have been avoided. So much harm has been done - harm that will take years to undo. My child's life has been made more painful, more difficult, more isolating. Not because of who they are, but because of what the Labour Party has legitimised. Because of the fear and hatred that has been fuelled. I urge Keir Starmer to reject the EHRC's guidance, to listen to trans people, parents and professionals, and to lead with empathy - and more importantly, with evidence. Because right now, Labour is failing trans children. As a parent, it's horrifying. Parent of a Trans Child
October 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
scottishtrans.bsky.social
Rest in Power Miss Major, a trailblazing trans organiser, who passed away earlier this week at the age of 78 and will be sorely missed.
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · Oct 14
The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.
October 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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lgbtiscotland.bsky.social
Have a look at TransActual's helpful pronouns guide to understand more about pronouns, and why people share them, this International Pronouns Day! 🏳️‍⚧️
transactualuk.bsky.social TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · Oct 15
International Pronouns Day happens each year on the third Wednesday of October.

You can find our pronoun resource here: transactual.org.uk/pronouns/ We created it to go in email signatures to explain why people choose to share their pronouns in emails.

#InternationalPronounsDay #PronounsDay
Image shows a rainbow sticker with the text "my pronouns are" with a list of different pronouns. Text reads: International Pronouns day
October 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM