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Working to change society and create a safer future for trans folk in Edinburgh and beyond. https://rtie.org/ Submit to the SUPREME INJUSTICE! zine https://bit.ly/rtie-supreme-injustice-2025
Following an escalating moral panic and extremist rhetoric against trans people & non-binary people the Labour government looks set to introduce its own version of Section 28, in the form of “keeping children safe in education” in England:
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In a functional country, this would be a scandal. A service suffering only from chronic underfunding was ripped apart because the media created a myth of 1000s of complaints of malpractice. The truth - as in my family’s experience - was very different.
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BBC headline: 'Vast majority' of parents should be told if children question their gender, schools told With a stock photo of an adult and child in an embrace.
Heads up: this looks as bad as suspected:
Ethel’s lowlights of the guidance show this for what it is.
A rolling back of already inadequate support with harming children the policy goal:
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A purple rectangle graphic with three white boxes. Purple text across the three boxes says "Protect trans pupils". The Scottish Trans logo is at the bottom.
A purple rectangle graphic with white text that says "When any pupil goes to school they should be able to do so safely, have appropriate toilet and changing facilities they can use, and be listened to and have their identity respected. This has become much harder for trans pupils because of two court cases that happened last year, and subsequent changes made to Scottish Government guidance on including trans pupils in school." The Scottish Trans logo is at the bottom.
When any pupil goes to school they should be able to do so safely, have appropriate toilet and changing facilities they can use, and be listened to and have their identity respected: www.scottishtrans.org/protect-trans-pupils
Have you signed our letter yet? Image of pop art woman wearing blue wig pointing to sign.. We've got 80,000 signatures NION Women icon
Eighty thousand signatures 💛🩷🩵🤍🎉
Eighty thousand trans allies.
Eighty thousand voices saying clearly: Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community
✍️ Sign and share: notinourname.org.uk
When the Scottish Government embedded the UNCRC into Scottish law, it made a commitment to children across Scotland.
When it comes to trans children, that promise has fallen short.
New blog on trans children's rights: growinguptransgender.com/2026/01/30/u...
URGENT:
Very important action by @goodlawproject.bsky.social
Transphobes are trying to infiltrate the Council of Europe to roll back LGBTQ+ human rights by writing en masse to MPs on the CoE.
Please use this tool to write to those MPs to counter this.
Do it now. We have a week.
Please share.
Despite reposting the call to arms below, I didn’t act on it until a few minutes ago.
Why? Because it felt too hard and overwhelming.
It was SO EASY.
Add your name to the letter now. If you choose not to write anything individual it will take less than a minute ❤️
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We got a 'response' from the BBC, who couldn't be bothered to write more than 3 small paragraphs (153 words) to our letter, and avoided all the points raised.
This is why your help is important.
We sent a formal complaint to the BBC over its repeated misgendering of trans people and use of terms like “biological male”. We’ve also written to the Women and Equalities Committee, DCMS, and the Minister for Women and Equalities. Now we need community action.
📢We now need your help! 1/3
New on the RTiE website, 'Resisting Transphobia in 2025'
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Some thoughts on the Levy Review by Dr Ruth Pearce. On 18 Dec, NHS England published the report of Dr Levy’s review of adult gender clinics. The report’s official title is the 'Operational and delivery review of NHS adult gender dysphoria clinics in England'
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A blue graphic titled "Canute's Folly: A sonnet for my transfeminine sisters." In the centre is an image with the text "Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh: Supreme Injustice! Community Response to Supreme Court Ruling." A preview below reads: "Forbid the ocean from her rightful name, Your fingers tracing curses in the foam..." Below in smaller text: "Read for free on rtie.org ✦ Link in bio." The graphic below is decorated with pearls, an anchor, blue coral, a blue shell, and a whale's tail.
I had the privilege of contributing a poem to @rtie.org's Supreme Injustice zine. I wrote a sonnet inspired by the indelible beauty of my transfeminine sisters/siblings, because god, do they deserve a love poem.
Please check the zine out (for free!) here:
rtie.org/2025/11/29/supreme-injustice/
This was eventually collated into an article for @rtie.org:
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Download an online version of the new zine from:
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WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED
After the unjust and discriminatory Supreme Court ruling against trans rights on 16 April 2025, as well as the subsequent EHRC guidance – this is a zine documenting and archiving trans people’s voices, art and resistance against the ruling.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED
After the unjust and discriminatory Supreme Court ruling against trans rights on 16 April 2025, as well as the subsequent EHRC guidance – this is a zine documenting and archiving trans people’s voices, art and resistance against the ruling.
rtie.org/2025/11/29/s...
Image shows a person wearing a blue shark outfit.
Image shows table with Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh banner and stickers.
We are at the Radical Book Fair today at the Assembly Roxy. Please pop by and say hello.
@lighthousebks.bsky.social
We were there for collective liberation. We were there to resist hateful attempts to legislate trans people out of public life. We were there to resist the far-right’s misogynist attempts to control women’s and trans people’s bodies.
#transrightsarehumanrights
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Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh (RTiE) lead a demonstration in Edinburgh today to support and protect Scotland’s transgender community in the face of rising persecution and discrimination. Today we are standing strong and together and saying no to the idea that segregation can ever be liberation.
Slide reads: GET SUPPORT Mindline Trans 030 330 5468 Fridays 8pm-midnight Switchboard 0800 0119 100 10am to 10pm daily http://switchboard.lgbt TRUK Listens 0800 009 66 40 8am-2am daily http://truklistens.org Samaritans 116123 24 hours every day CONTACT US Instagram DM @resistingtransphobiaedi Email Resisting TransphobiaEdinburgh@proton.me
Slide reads: WHERE Location: Scottish Water Tap Address: Scottish Parliament, EH99 1SP what3words: assume.deaf.times
Slide reads: SAFETY Arrive and leave with friends. Coming on your own? You can walk down with a bunch of friendly RTIE folk. DM us for details. Wear a mask or collect one from our friends Edinburgh Mask Bloc on the day. Be prepared: Dress for the weather, bring waterproof and windproof layers, and carry snacks and water. Talking to the press: Consider using an alternative name for comments and saying no to photos and videos of your face. Photos of signs are great! Don't talk to police at demos - including Police Liaison Officers in blue jackets - they can target people they perceive as 'organisers'. If police speak to you, politely stay silent and disengage. Learn more about your rights through @activists_legal
Slide reads: ACCESS Transport and travel: Public transport to the Parliament is via the Lothians service 35 bus, which stops west of the Parliament building on the High Street, up a hill, and east of the Parliament building on Abbeyhill past the Watergate. All pavements have accessible slopes to road surfaces at marked and unmarked crossing points. Access to the meeting point: The Parliament area is flat and paved but there are some steep paths down to the Parliament area itself. Mobility: This will be a static protest. Sound: There will be a PA system and chanting. Our welfare team will have earplugs available and some ear defenders. Toilets: Cafe at the Palace or Dynamic Earth. Welfare: There will be a welfare team identifiable by signs who can provide masks, snacks, water, first aid, sensory aids such as earplugs, mental health first aid and signpost you to support if needed.
Slide reads: Slide reads: RESIST FROM HOME Can't make the protest? Here are some actions you can take today, tomorrow and any time from home. Email your MP - it's as easy as going on writetothem.com and composing a short letter. RTIE run workshops on talking to politicians and we can share template emails if you need ideas of what to write. Reach out to the trans people in your life - offer a listening ear, a distracting meme, a nice snack, a pet to cuddle, whatever they need. Support RTIE - get in touch via our Instagram, Bluesky or email and help us resist! Donate directly to a trans person in need Donate to an organisation that supports trans people in the UK For trans young people, support Mermaids: mermaidsuk.org.uk TRUK Listens operate a phone support line: truklistens.org LGBT Health & Wellbeing: www.lgbthealth.org.uk
Image shows a clenched trans fist breaking chains. The image title reads "Not the TERFS, Not the State, We decide our own fate. 1pm Sat 1st Nov, Scottish Parliament".
Slide reads: WHAT NOT THE TERFS! NOT THE STATE! WE DECIDE OUR OWN FATE! TURN OUT FOR COLLECTIVE LIBERATION. SHOW TERFS THAT THEY CANNOT DIVIDE US. RESIST THE FAR-RIGHT'S MISOGYNIST ATTEMPTS TO CONTROL WOMEN'S AND TRANS PEOPLE'S BODIES.
Slide reads: WHY 199 days on from the Supreme Court ruling, Women Won't Wheesht are planning a protest at the Scottish Parliament on 1st November. Their TERF project is an attack on progressive feminism and a dangerous dead end in the fight against the far right, who are the real threat to women and girls. The transphobes have been utterly silent in recent weeks on the rash of far right protests across Scotland, including the Tommy Robinson rally, while we act in community with all oppressed groups. TERFs may have been emboldened by the Supreme Court Ruling, but so have we. Just a few days later, we marched through Edinburgh to express our rage, our community's resilience, and our commitment to keep fighting for trans liberation as part of progressive feminism. That march was only the start. When we fight for liberation, we fight for everyone. We cannot let them win.
Slide reads: HOW Bring your flags, banners, signs, megaphones and drums. Listen to messages of solidarity, resilience and hope from Edinburgh's trans community and allies. Chant Dance Share home-made snacks. Commit to taking care of one another, building our community's resilience, and keeping up the fight.
A demonstration has been scheduled to coincide with & counteract a protest from Women Won’t Wheesht over the Supreme Court’s ruling for single-sex spaces. They demand that this be implemented across all government departments, a policy that we believe is demeaning & dehumanising for trans people.
The EHRC claims the 2011 Code is “legally incorrect” after the For Women Scotland Supreme Court ruling, which said “sex” means biological sex.
But that case didn’t remove trans protections or require rewriting the Code. This is a political move, not a legal necessity.
Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
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Very proud to have curated this Special Issue in the @mja.com.au on #gender & health.
Amid growing backlash against #genderequity & diversity, we sought to elevate work informed by evidence & respect for the rights, dignity and perspectives of affected populations.
www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...
“The Cass Review's contradictions are striking. It acknowledged some trans young people benefit from [blockers], but its recommendations have made this currently inaccessible to all. It found no evidence psychological treatments improve gender dysphoria, yet recommended expanding their provision.”
