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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 15h

Now is the time to take action with our new MP tool. Even if you've already written – it's so important now to keep the pressure up.

Our tool lets you customise and send the letter all in one place. Feel free to add something about the Commissioner's letter!

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Scrap the Bathroom Ban

🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 15h

The EHRC code must be scrapped.

Our Head of Policy, Jess O'Thomson, says that in light of this significant intervention, the Code of Practice cannot be laid as drafted. The Minister must reject it.

Exclusion of trans people from services for their lived gender must be the exception, not the rule.

"This significant intervention from the Commissioner makes clear that the EHRC's new Code of Practice cannot be laid as drafted. The minister must reject it and insist the EHRC try again - making clear how to include trans people, not just exclude.

Exclusion of trans people from services for their lived gender, the letter makes clear, must be the exception - not the rule."

Jess O'Thomson

Head of Policy

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 15h

The Commissioner makes it clear that any new guidance has to explain how to include trans+ people.

Not doing this leaves the UK at risk of breaching its international human rights commitments.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 15h

It's a strong, detailed, and thorough letter – but it makes clear that the UK is on a path to widespread trans exclusion, in potential violation of trans people's human rights.

A scan of the letter with a quote next to it.

Such a zero-sum approach risks certain inferences being drawn from the UK Supreme Court judgment that could lead to widespread exclusion of trans people from many public spaces.

This, in turn, may severely infringe on their ability to participate fully and equally in society."

Michael O'Flaherty Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 15h

The Commissioner for Human Rights has written to the UK – warning that trans people's human rights are at risk.

www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

BREAKING

Intervention from Europe's human rights watchdog.

The Commissioner for Human Rights has written to UK parliamentarians, making it clear that trans+ inclusion is a vital human rights principle.

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 18h

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
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 1d

actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

Scrap the Bathroom Ban

🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...

actionnetwork.org

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 1d

The decision now is Bridget Phillipson’s. She can send this draft back, and demand better. Any new code must make clear how providers can remain trans-inclusive.

We have to keep the pressure up: exclusion can’t be the only option.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 1d

The EHRC has sent their draft Code of Practice to the government. It seeks to mandate the blanket exclusion of trans people, from toilets to book clubs.

We won’t see the final code until it’s been approved, but media leaks & the EHRC’s own statements make one thing clear: they've not changed course

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 1d

Even if you’ve already written to your MP, we have to keep the pressure up. Write again, and share the link from our bio with everyone you know.

We all need to come together and demand fair & workable guidance to the Equality Act, before it’s too late.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 1d

The government are deciding whether to approve guidance that would force trans people out of public life.

But MPs are speaking out against the EHRC’s cruel and unworkable proposals.

Use our new tool to help you tell your MP: The minister must reject this proposed guidance and demand better.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 1d

We have partnered with @transactualuk.bsky.social to create a new tool to help you write to your MP.

Your voices have been making a difference. Because of you, pressure is mounting, but we have to keep it up.

Write to your MP now 👇

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Your voices are making a difference.

Take action now with our new MP tool.

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance x TransActual.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 9d

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 9d

It's spooky season 🎃👻 Want to have some fun this Halloween? Come along to our Cabaret, raising funds for Trans Secret Santa - bringing festive joy to trans youth.

Get your tickets now 👇

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Witch, Please. – A Halloween Spook-tacular Cabaret Hosted by the spellbinding Count Addiction 🦇Grab your broomsticks and glitter – it’s time for a night of frightful fun, killer performances, and dev...

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 13d

Lucy Powell has warned that Labour should not wave through a devastating trans bathroom ban 👇

Ripping up trans rights would be a disaster for Labour, for business, for women, and for the wider LGBT+ community.

It's wrong. Labour needs to stop aping Trump and Farage, and protect our human rights.

Lucy Powell calls for MPs to vote on single sex space guidance

The Labour deputy leadership candidate calls for a debate and vote on guidance which is expected to say that trans people should be excluded from single sex spaces.

news.sky.com

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 14d

This bathroom ban will be Labour's legacy.

You can stop it.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 14d

A woman walks in, walks out and loudly shouts there's a man in the women's toilets

A trans man who tried to follow the EHRC's advice to use a women's toilet

This is Labour's bathroom ban

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 14d

As a cultural organisation, a hospitality business and as an employer of over 100 people, making any change to who can use which bathroom will not be operationally viable

Major cultural venue in the West of England

This is Labour's bathroom ban

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 14d

"Over the last week I don't believe there has been a day in which I haven't cried from the worry and anxiety it has brought. I have felt I can't go out in the same way I once did"

A trans woman describing her fear to TransActual

This is Labour's bathroom ban

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 14d

We are at Labour conference, telling members about the impact of the proposed bathroom ban. It would devastate trans people’s lives, create unworkable business challenges, and alienate voters.

This would be Labour’s legacy on LGBT+ rights for a generation. But it’s not too late for them to stop it.

A van with a screen on the side saying

Labour isn't working for LGBT+ voters. Stop the bathroom ban. A queue of people on a red background holding various pride flags.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 16d

NEW: Yet more businesses and organisations warn the Government that the EHRC’s proposed trans bathroom ban is unworkable. This comes after our open letter from 650+ firms urging them to reject it.

Reach out to your MP, and ask them to make sure that Ministers listen to these concerns.

UK businesses fear new EHRC guidance on toilets will be ‘unworkable’

Exclusive: Stonewall writes to ministers and warns cost of compliance could be ‘significant’ for struggling companies

www.theguardian.com

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 22d

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance isn't just about policy work – we also support our wider community.

We're incredibly proud of our Trans Secret Santa project, bringing festive joy to trans+ youth.

Come have a spooktacular night at our Halloween Cabaret whilst raising funds for Trans Secret Santa 🎃🦇👇

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Witch, Please. – A Halloween Spook-tacular Cabaret Hosted by the spellbinding Count Addiction 🦇Grab your broomsticks and glitter – it’s time for a night of frightful fun, killer performances, and dev...

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 27d

“[Businesses] expressed concern that the proposals would… force staff ‘into the unacceptable role of gender police’.”

Eye-opening story by @milliecooke.bsky.social on the UK’s slow-motion trans rights train crash

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Hundreds of firms warn new draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’

Exclusive: More than 650 organisations have urged Bridget Phillipson to ‘take immediate action to prevent these proposals from moving forward’

www.independent.co.uk

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 28d

The EHRC guidance is unworkable for business.

Signatories include Ben & Jerry's, Lush, Lucy & Yak and hundreds of large and small businesses across the country

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Hundreds of firms warn new draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’

Exclusive: More than 650 organisations have urged Bridget Phillipson to ‘take immediate action to prevent these proposals from moving forward’

www.independent.co.uk

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Sep 12

Great to see that lots of Liberal Democrat MPs have written to Bridget Phillipson, calling for full scrutiny of the EHRC's proposed guidance.

Contact your MP and tell them to do the same. Follow our steps here:

www.transsolidarityalliance.com

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