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Monitoring organised harm against trans people in the UK.

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Trans Safety Network have written to Healthwatch regarding their concerning recommendations in their trans health report. We fear if this report is not withdrawn, it will lead to significant deterioration in trans people's ability to access NHS care. transsafety.network/posts/danger...
'Dangerous Recommendations': Trans Safety Network write to Healthwatch
Trans Safety Network was shocked by the dangerous recommendations of Healthwatch's recent trans healthcare report. We find it hard to believe that any trans organisations or persons were involved sign...
transsafety.network
October 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Trans Safety Network are very concerned to see that the review into supposed over diagnosis of mental ill heath and neurodivegence ordered by Wes Streeting is to be chaired by Peter Fonagy with Simon Wessely as Vice chair.
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
October 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Virgin Active call themselves an LGBTQ+ ally, but decided to ban trans people from using their changing rooms and bathrooms... so we created a new slogan for them 👀

We need to make make as much noise as possible and make Virgin Active feel the pressure.

Will you join us? 👇
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September 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Ahem the guy who invented the term "evidence based medicine" just rebuked the most prominent anti-trans health lobby group in the world www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown
The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.
www.motherjones.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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We are cutting through, guys! Please do write to your MP & if you’ve already done so, please find someone else to write too 🤣

Full details of the campaign here: transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/09...

And we’ve made it easy with a template letter for constituents here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
September 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Statement from Trans Safety Network on the Linehan arrest.

TSN understand Linehan's tweet to be an unambiguous call for vigilante violence against trans women in toilets. And yet senior government figures and police have jumped to find a way to make excuses for it.
September 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
We encourage our supporters to write to the BBC to complain about the use of a slur against trans women in this article www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is directly written in text and is not a quotation.
Free speech laws need to be reviewed after Linehan arrest, says Streeting
The health secretary says ministers wanted police to focus on street crime rather than posts on social media.
www.bbc.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
We have signed this joint letter to MPs across the UK calling for robust Parliamentary scrutiny of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) forthcoming Code of Practice on Services, Public Functions and Associations.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
September 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Sex Matters has deleted his page from its website - but the internet never forgets. web.archive.org/web/20241107...
Tim Allan - Sex Matters
Trustee
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September 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."
September 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Breaking: The UK government run by Keir Starmer has announced in a recent shake up at Number 10, that the new government director of communications is going to be former Sex Matters trustee Tim Allan

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer shakes up No 10 operation with mini-reshuffle
Exclusive: Darren Jones appointed to new senior role in charge of day-to-day delivery of PM’s priorities
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Please get in touch with Netpol if you have been affected by police stop and search as a trans person following the interim guidance
netpol.org Netpol @netpol.org · Aug 21
CALL-OUT: tells us about the trans community’s experiences of police stop and search powers since the introduction in May of new 'interim guidance' for police forces on stopping and searching trans people netpol.org/2025/08/21/c...
August 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Kim Hipwell analyses the Sullivan Report for Trans Safety Network and highlights some major problems.
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Major Problems with the Sullivan Review
Kim Hipwell analyses the Sullivan Review and highlights some key issues.
transsafety.network
July 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
transsafety.network/posts/my-par...

@sasha98.bsky.social and Valeria Rocca spoke to several children of Bayswater members who highlighted the harm the group do to young trans people and the gateway into broader far-right politics that they provide.

Content warning: discusses conversion abuse
“My parents very clearly do not love me”: Children of Bayswater Speak Out
We speak to several children of Bayswater Support Group members. Their experiences highlight the harm groups like Bayswater do to young trans people, and the gateway they provide to broader far-right ...
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July 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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To understand how we got here and what happens next, check out Iosphere #1 — featuring the work of @transsafety.network, @iandunt.bsky.social, & @beninldn.bsky.social.
iosphere.beehiiv.com/p/1-a-very-b...

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#1: A very British bathroom ban
The British government is stumbling towards a policy every bit as radical as North Carolina's infamous bathroom law. How did this happen, and why?
iosphere.beehiiv.com
May 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Trans Safety Network write to the EHRC to call for meaningful consultation on the new statutory Code of Practice

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TSN write to the EHRC to call for meaningful consultation on new statutory Code of Practice
Trans Safety Network have written to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), who announced that a new consultation would be launched on changes to their statutory Code of Practice for service...
transsafety.network
May 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Press release: 141 LGBTQ+, feminist and allied organisations call for transphobic political parties to be banned from Pride events
Press release: 141 LGBTQ+, feminist and allied organisations call for transphobic political parties to be banned from Pride events
141 LGBTQ+, feminist and allied organisations have signed an open letter calling for the organisers of Pride events to take a stand against transphobia by barring all political parties advocating for ...
transsafety.network
May 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Open letter to Pride events: Stand with trans people, no pride for anti-trans parties
Open letter to Pride events: Stand with trans people, no pride for anti-trans parties
We are LGBTQ+ and feminist organisations and individuals calling on the organisers of Pride events across the UK to take a stand against transphobia.
transsafety.network
April 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
youtu.be/mmCmFheC-X4

Thanks @katymontgomerie.com for talking about our work on conversion therapy lobbyists being courted by the Health Secretary
LEAK - Conversion Therapy group Wes Streeting "sympathises" with: "Put CHILLI in child's mascara"
YouTube video by Katy Montgomerie
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April 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Chilli Sauce in Mascara: Wes Streeting's complicity in conversion abuse
Chili sauce in mascara: Wes Streeting's complicity in conversion abuse
Multiple attempts have been made by Trans Safety Network (TSN) to talk to Wes Streeting and the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) regarding serious safeguarding concerns about a group influ...
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April 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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my friend ilya has been doing incredibly crucial work on the intersections between CBT for BDD and avenues for conversion therapy
March 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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March 17, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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I had BDD added to my NHS record after I requested a referral to a GIC. I have never been diagnosed with BDD. I do not have any symptoms of BDD. Being extremely generous a stupid GP tried to add dysphoria and added dysmorphia instead. Being less generous...
March 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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This seems completely backwards to me, as a former anorexic.

BDD and eating disorder specialists need to know the signs of gender dysphoria so they can suggest treatments that could help to patients for whom they otherwise have no way of helping.
March 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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New article by Ilya Maude: Are trans teens safe in NHS BDD services?
Are trans teens safe in NHS BDD services?
Concerning links have appeared between head of NHS's only specialist service for children and young people with BDD and conversion therapy advocates
transsafety.network
March 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM