Trans Safety Network

1 Sept

Brilliant checklist for trans people working with therapists from Therapists Against Conversion Therapy and Transphobia. therapistsagainsttransphobia.org/2026/08/26/n...

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TACC

@tacc.org.uk

13 Aug

TACC, @translucent.org.uk, @transsafety.network, and @transexilenetwork.bsky.social have written to Amnesty International UK over the withdrawal of its reports on the UK’s anti-rights movement and its subsequent apology to gender-critical organisations.

wp.lancs.ac.ukwp.lancs.ac.ukJames Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships help decide what health questions most need research.

Trans Safety Network encourage our supporters to engage with the James Lind Alliance consultation to set research funding priorities.

and prioritise the most important questions for non-surgical transition-related healthcare research. Seeking input from: - Adults (18+) who have accessed, are accessing, or are seeking access to transition-related care - Healthcare professionals

wp.lancs.ac.ukwp.lancs.ac.ukJames Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships help decide what health questions most need research.

- Support networks, including family, friends, carers, or partners National consultation on transition-related healthcare - submit your views today at wp.lancs.ac.uk/transadultspsp

wp.lancs.ac.ukwp.lancs.ac.ukJames Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships help decide what health questions most need research.

Trans Safety Network encourage our supporters to engage with the James Lind Alliance consultation to set research funding priorities.

The Trans, Non-Binary & Gender-Diverse Adults Priority Setting Partnership - delivered by @LancasterUni and funded by @GenderedIntelligence - is working with communities and healthcare professionals to identify

transsafety.networkThe European Social Survey: A Case Study In Gender AssignationIn this article, I will show that it is incorrect to assume that “observation” can be used to find out a person’s gender or sex.

13 Feb

Kim Hipwell analyses how recent parallel usage of self-reported gender with their usual 'observational coding 'in the European Social Survey highlights the unreliability of observational coding. transsafety.network/posts/europe...

@notrightruth.bsky.social

13 Feb

She outlines how this approach, as recommended by the Sullivan report, is a poor method for capturing data about gender minorities and broader society.

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Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️

@jaytoddgla.bsky.social

3 Feb

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender. doi.org/10.1111/tran... The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

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Ruth Pearce

8 Jan

Replying to @notrightruth.bsky.social

Participants in Dr Horton's study contrasted abuse under GIDS and the new Children and Young People’s Gender Service with the affirmative approach of WellBN GP practice, which provided real space for exploration and reflection. WellBN is now under NHS investigation for providing this care.

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Ruth Pearce

@notrightruth.bsky.social

8 Jan

Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing I’ve ever experienced”.

doi.org“The worst thing I’ve ever experienced” – comparing experiences of affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare provision for trans adolescents in the UKWithin trans youth healthcare two fundamentally different models of care persist, with a significant difference between affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare services. To date there has been l...

transsafety.networkDefining the Boundaries: Local NHS policies put trans patient safety at riskTrans patients in certain regions are having their repeat prescriptions withdrawn and being left at risk of serious medical harm, following slipshod new policies rolled out by local NHS England author...

28 Dec 2025

@ilyarabbit.bsky.social and Chloe F outline how the policies of NHS integrated Care Boards and inadequate equality impact assessments are leaving trans patients at risk of serious medical harm. transsafety.network/posts/defini...

Trans Safety Network are concerned to see that NHS England have committed to expanding the role of the National Research Oversight Board for Children and Young People’s Gender Services to cover audit and research for adult patients too.

I do not give my permission for any aspect of my patient data to be submitted to, or collected for, the purpose of any research or non local audit without my express permission in writing being obtained in advance.

nhs.ukOpt out of sharing your health recordsFind out how to opt out of sharing your health records for research and planning.

Emails should include your name, DOB and NHS Number to assist your GIC admin in finding your record. If you have been referred but not been seen by a GIC, you can still contact the GIC you were referred to.

This can be done via the following links, the first to stop GP records being shared and the second to stop secondary care records being shared: www.nhs.uk/using-the-nh... digital.nhs.uk/services/nat...

We also suggest you email your GIC the following to ensure your opt-out is clear and ask to have a note of this added to your care record.

As such, its unclear why they have been chosen to audit and choose research priorities for transgender adults. We believe it will be hard for patients to feel their best interests will be considered during audits and research recommendations due to the associated baggage and lack of expertise.

whatdotheyknow.comCYP Gender Dysphoria Research Oversight Board agendas, papers and minutes - a Freedom of Information request to NHS EnglandThis is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please could you provide, subject to any necessary redactions to omit personal or confidential information which is not pe...

In light of this, Trans Safety Network strongly suggests all transgender people in England consider opting out of their healthcare data being used for research.

and a 2025 FOI asking for minutes + associated documents for the CYPGS Research Oversight Board revealed a communications strategy that suggested CYP clinicians should “possibly participate” in conferences hosted by SEGM + CAN-SG, whilst only mentioning WPATH and BAGIS conferences “for awareness”.

transgendermap.comtransgendermap.com

www.transgendermap.com/wp-content/u... Beyond this, to our knowledge no members of this group have experience working with adult transgender people.

Other members of the board are associated with anti-trans groups CAN-SG (www.transgendermap.com/issues/regre...), ...

transgendermap.comClinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender vs. transgender people – Transgender Map

splcenter.orgAnti-LGBTQAnti-LGBTQ+ ideology opposes rights, spreads harmful pseudoscience, and uses demonizing rhetoric to portray LGBTQ+ people as threats to society.

... and SPLC listed hate group SEGM (www.splcenter.org/resources/ex...), ...

We have previously raised concerns about its chair, Simon Wessley in this article.

transsafety.networkSimon Wessely’s history of discrediting sick and disabled people could be bad news for trans health research priorities.Psychiatrist Simon Wessely has been appointed to chair the National Children and Young People’s Gender Dysphoria Research Oversight Board. TSN outline our concerns about this appointment.

chuffed.orgSupport a trans woman facing serious legal charges after EHRC protest arrestCall for financial support for a trans woman wrongfully charged with assaulting a police officer at a protest.

3 Dec 2025

Legal fee fundraiser for trans woman facing serious charges over arrest at a Trans Kids Deserve Better demo. Please support by sharing and donating if you can afford to. chuffed.org/project/1587...

transsafety.networkFrom Lacking to Malicious - An investigation into NHS England's ICB's guidanceSince the Cass Review’s was published in April 2024, trans healthcare on the NHS has become significantly more precarious and unpredictable. While the dire situation for children has happened in the o...

25 Nov 2025

@sasha98.bsky.social provides analysis of just how precarious and inconsistent access to trans healthcare on the NHS has become. They highlight how official guidance has favoured giving hostile and nervous clinicians excuses, rather than empower or expect them to provide good care standards.

transsafety.networkWes Streeting continues to ignore safeguarding concerns about parents group linked to abusive practicesTrans Safety Network has seen evidence Wes Streeting and the DHSC solicited feedback on a “puberty blocker risk form” from Bayswater Support Group and other anti-trans groups in September 2025, 6 mont...

24 Nov 2025

Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views

transsafety.network'Dangerous Recommendations': Trans Safety Network write to HealthwatchTrans 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...

16 Oct 2025

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...

2 Oct 2025

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...

stopsim.co.ukSTOPSIMMental Health Is Not A Crime

2 Oct 2025

Fonagy was involved in the feasibility research for the highly damaging Serenity Integrated Mentoring scheme that caused immense harm to psychiatrised people by criminalising mental distress stopsim.co.uk

benefitsandwork.co.ukControversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for LabourGet the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

2 Oct 2025

We have previously reported on Wessely's harms to the disabled community transsafety.network/posts/simon-... We stand in solidarity with disabled people and psychiatric survivors. Trans liberation cannot be won without disabled people's liberation.

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Good Law Project

@goodlawproject.org

24 Sept 2025

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? 👇 goodlaw.social/d922

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Katelyn Burns

@katelynburns.com

23 Sept 2025

Replying to @katelynburns.com

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...

motherjones.comTrans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdownThe godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.

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Philippa East (Author)

@philippaeast.bsky.social

11 Sept 2025

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...

transactual.org.ukTrans segregation in practice: – TransActual

4 Sept 2025

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.

As TransActual document in their recent report transactual.org.uk/impacts-of-t... since the Uk Supreme Court judgment redefining sex for the purposes of the Equality Act, there has been an increase in trans and gender nonconforming people facing harassment and assault while using public facilities.

4 Sept 2025

Trans people would be better protected by the government protecting our right to use facilities of our lived gender than by police action against individual minor celebrities who have engaged in transphobic rhetoric.

TSN do not believe that transphobic violence can be solved by policing tweets, but contrasted with the hard line the UK government have taken criminalising non-violent protest in the UK,

4 Sept 2025

the statements issued by the cabinet and senior police officials have the effect of legitimising violence against trans people.

bbc.comFree speech laws need to be reviewed after Linehan arrest, says StreetingThe health secretary says ministers wanted police to focus on street crime rather than posts on social media.

3 Sept 2025

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.

bbc.co.ukMake A Complaint | Contact the BBC

3 Sept 2025

You can complain to the BBC here www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp... You can also complain to OFCOM about them here www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-compl...

docs.google.comParliamentary Scrutiny EHRC Code - Constituent LetterTEMPLATE LETTER FOR CONSTITUENTS Remember to personalise your letter as much as you can. Tailor it to what you know of your MP’s interests. Leave out anything you feel is less relevant; and add in an...

2 Sept 2025

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...

It is important that MPs hear directly from the people whose lives will be affected. We encourage you to use this template letter to write to your own MP, highlighting your concerns and asking them to push for proper scrutiny of the Code. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

transactual.org.ukJoint statement: Calling for full scrutiny, meaningful debate and a free vote for MPs when the EHRC Code of Practice is laid in Parliament – TransActual

2 Sept 2025

Many thanks to @transactualuk.bsky.social for leading on this,

Read the full statement on TransActual's website here transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/09...

theguardian.comKeir Starmer shakes up No 10 operation with mini-reshuffleExclusive: Darren Jones appointed to new senior role in charge of day-to-day delivery of PM’s priorities

1 Sept 2025

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...

1 Sept 2025

This is yet another instance of the Starmer Labour government being found to maintain deep links with senior figures in the anti-trans rights movement.