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Transphobia is the main reason why people ‘detransition’, according to new survey

Transphobia’s toll — The largest ever survey of its kind found that just 9% of respondents had "gone back to living as their sex assigned at birth at least for a little while at some point in their lives”, with the biggest reason being discrimination, harassment and being shunned by friends and families.

  • Activism
  • Ella Glossop

Why Trans Pride is more important than ever

Ahead of this year's march, one of the organisers of London Trans Pride writes about the importance of the event and why we should all be there.

  • Activism
  • EM Williams

Activists left missing posters outside the Home Office

Where are the children? — The action took place in response to the 200 asylum-seeking children who were placed in hotels run by the Home Office who have gone missing.

  • Activism
  • Ben Smoke

In Northern Ireland, pro-choice campaigners are celebrating

Safe abortions now — Last month, the supreme court ruled to allow buffer zones around clinics to protect users and staff from anti-abortion protestors in NI. Campaigners reflect on what the decisions means for the future of reproductive rights.

  • Activism
  • Ellen McVeigh

How the cost of living crisis is endangering sex workers

Decrim now — Financial turmoil is pushing people who work in the sex industry into more dangerous and desperate situations as a means of survival, reports Ella Glover.

  • Activism
  • Ella Glover

The battle for abortion clinic buffer zones in the UK

Right to choose — The overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US has seen an emboldened anti-choice movement in the UK. Now, campaigners are fighting to protect people from harassment as they access abortion care.

  • Activism
  • Sian Bradley

Anti-police protestors storm London Pride parade

Queer activist group Lesbians and Gays support the Migrants staged a die-in at the Pride in London parade to protest the inclusion of police in the march.

  • Activism
  • Ben Smoke

Londoners gather to defend abortion rights

‘My body, my choice‘ — After news broke last week around an expected reversal of the 1973 landmark law that made abortion legal in the US, protestors gathered in the UK in support of American women.

  • Activism
  • Huck

Photos from the sex worker strike in London on IWD

‘Whorephobia kills’ — To mark International Women’s Day, hundreds came to together for a joint women’s and sex worker strike in central London.

  • Activism
  • Ben Smoke

Trans liberation will take more than honouring the dead

Trans Day of Remembrance — This Trans Day of Remembrance, a shift in focus is needed to address the systemic causes of transphobia and violence that trans people face at home and abroad.

  • Activism
  • Sarah Lamble and Nim Ralph

The puberty blocker ruling offers trans people hope

Sigh of relief — The overturning of the Bell v Tavistock ruling thanks to a trans-led appeal is a cause for celebration that gives hope of a pushback against entrenched English transphobia, writes Robin Craig.

  • Activism
  • Robin Craig

Trans people deserve better than the fixation on our pain

Gender euphoria — All too often, transgender people are framed as a problem to be solved. In Liam Konemann’s new book, The Appendix, he calls for the focus to shift to encompass trans joy.

  • Activism
  • Liam Konemann

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