Open Letter to Parliament

Trans Rights Now!

Dear Members of Parliament,
We are writing to you with the hope that you will see the injustices being done and finally take a stand against the elimination of the rights from trans people in the UK. Silence and inaction is no longer an option, and will be taken not just complicity with those who would do us harm, but as an indication of hostility towards the transgender community.

The illegitimate Hodge Ruling from the Supreme Court last week was the final step too far. A ruling which followed proceedings where trans people were intentionally denied any voice or representation, rendering the verdict inherently flawed. This ruling, which blatantly misinterpreted the application of ‘sex’ as defined in the Equality Act (2010), was undertaken in the service of a league of organisations and state bodies who are intent on destroying the lives of transgender people in the UK. It is a gross miscarriage of justice that needs to be independently investigated by the international courts.

This ruling is already being used far beyond its own stated restrictions of applicability, to effectively render both legal gender recognition under the Gender Recognition Act (2004) and the Equality Act (2010) completely worthless when it comes to protecting trans people, being pushed by the transphobic head of the discredited Equality and Human Rights Commission, aided and abetted by known transphobic activist commissioners on its board, primarily Alasdair Henderson & Akua Reindorf.

We will state plainly - this ruling effectively renders transgender and nonbinary people unable to live our lives in the UK at all, and illegitimately overrides the European Court of Human Rights ruling of Goodwin vs UK which forced the then Labour UK Government to enact the Gender Recognition Act 2004.

This, and previous governments already have a long and sordid history of abusing transgender and nonbinary people while claiming we ‘deserve dignity and respect’, while your policies and refusal to act actively harm and kill us. This and multiple previous governments are guilty of breaching Public Sector Equality Duty, the Principles of Public Life, the Equality Act (2010) and the Human Rights Act (1998), as well as multiple breaches of UN Human Rights principles and Rights of the Child, fundamentally undermining transgender and nonbinary people's rights as citizens - and we will no longer stand for these abuses.

You may have noted the extensive peaceful demonstrations against the ruling, which were conducted over the Easter Weekend. The demonstration in London alone was estimated to be attended by more than twenty-five thousand people. There has repeatedly been evidenced a great deal of public support for the rights of transgender and nonbinary people, and thusly the public will no longer tolerate a political establishment which colludes with small bands of hate groups to act against the public will.

As a community we are no longer prepared to limit ourselves to mere discussion of the issues affecting us - issues that have been too long ignored by governments and negligent political parties who believe they can score political advantage by callously ignoring the plight of our people.

For years now, transgender and nonbinary people have suffered an increasing tide of hatred and scaling back of legal, civil, and practical protections, along with an explosion in hate crimes and violence. This environment of disinformation and hatred has been perpetrated by an unregulated media landscape that has demonstrably sought to demonise transgender and non-binary people, and supported by a network of well-funded hate groups, both of which have received tacit support and condonement by a rotten political establishment.

Across the world we see transgender and nonbinary people being used as a scapegoat for systemic issues of inequality, economic mismanagement, and political corruption. History has demonstrated repeatedly, that such demonisation and elimination from the public sphere is a prelude to violence and widespread persecution, and the complicity of this government in such developments at home, and silence on such actions abroad, can only be seen as endorsement.

The previous status quo, accepting crumbs of civil protection and seeking only to obediently represent ourselves within the system, was a compromise that was suffered out of fear. That ends now. Since even those meager protections are now being stripped away by a handful of people who have demonstrated hate beyond reason, as a community we are now presenting the following list of non-negotiable demands for immediate implementation:

Rights and Protections

Healthcare

Public Duties & Bodies

These demands are compiled from various reports conducted by previous UK Government and Committee reports that already highlight the multiple injustices we face, alongside corrective measures to restore the rights we have already lost and protect us from harm in the future.

The issues affecting the lives of transgender people in the UK have been too long ignored, and until now we have been patient in attempting to work within the system to establish necessary changes, despite continued lies and abuses by the state.

That has now changed. We are no longer willing to compromise where our lives and rights to exist are concerned, and will not be pushed back to the margins of society or segregated in any way. Nothing less than full inclusion is acceptable.

Transgender people have always existed, we are not going away, and we will not comply with any laws that remove our rights or restrict our lives.

Regards,
The Aggrieved