Trans Safety Network
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https://transsafety.network/ Monitoring organised harm against trans people in the UK. Donate: https://ko-fi.com/transsafetynetwork
Trans Safety Network encourage our supporters to engage with the James Lind Alliance consultation to set research funding priorities.
James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships help decide what health questions most need research.
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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...
The European Social Survey: A Case Study In Gender Assignation
In 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.
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📣 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.
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.
![Interviewees reflected upon a very different approach to being questioned within affirmative services. One parent commented that “I think she probably trusted [affirmative GP] more because he was trans—That first appointment was extraordinary because [adolescent], I think, felt seen for the first time, felt heard… and I felt like he was asking questions that were pertinent”. Several parents felt that an affirmative service created a safe space where trans adolescents could speak honestly about their feelings and their worries. One parent described seeing their child open-up more in one affirmative appointment, than in 2 years in a non-affirming service:
I was just quite blown away. I was like, Wow. We sat in that office for 45 minutes. I came out like almost puzzled. I’m like years. I was almost ** angry when I left, about the Tavistock again. In f****** years. Never once has somebody sat down and talked to my daughter like that, like she’s a person and it’s not an interrogation. It’s just a holistic health approach to a trans young person. It was wonderful actually.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:imuudyzzfj56y3lxiy35kop2/bafkreicj4pu3riwh4ubicpfecwycvcu72365xqx6g5t3ujnfvkvtlhftpq)
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”.
“The worst thing I’ve ever experienced” – comparing experiences of affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare provision for trans adolescents in the UK
Within 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...
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@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...
Defining the Boundaries: Local NHS policies put trans patient safety at risk
Trans 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...
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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.
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...
Support a trans woman facing serious legal charges after EHRC protest arrest
Call for financial support for a trans woman wrongfully charged with assaulting a police officer at a protest.
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@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.
From Lacking to Malicious - An investigation into NHS England's ICB's guidance
Since 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...
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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
Wes Streeting continues to ignore safeguarding concerns about parents group linked to abusive practices
Trans 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...
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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...
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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...
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
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.
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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...
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.
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.
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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...
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
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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@netpol.org · 12mo agoCALL-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...
Kim Hipwell analyses the Sullivan Report for Trans Safety Network and highlights some major problems. transsafety.network/posts/major-...
Major Problems with the Sullivan Review
Kim Hipwell analyses the Sullivan Review and highlights some key issues.
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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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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... And if you appreciated this post, please subscribe! It's free, and would mean a lot to me. 💚
#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?
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Trans Safety Network write to the EHRC to call for meaningful consultation on the new statutory Code of Practice transsafety.network/posts/tsn-wr...
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...
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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 ...
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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.
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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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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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