March saw RTiE members working to oppose a Posie Parker transphobic rally in Aberdeen.  As well as donating ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ stickers to Aberdeen Trades Union Council, and advertising the counter protest, some RTiE members got along on the day…

We started April with a great day at Kirkcaldy with Trans Pride Scotland. The RTiE flag was there, along with banners from Angus Pride, Fife Trade Unions Council, Fire Brigade Union, ROSA, Trade Unions in Communities, Trans Kids Deserve Better, UNISON and Unite. And there were Pirates…

Later that month RTiE organised a massive protest against the Supreme Court Ruling, with thousands gathering outside Queen Elizabeth House in Edinburgh to send the message to the UK Government: “We will not be erased!”  The action did not stop there, as we followed this up with practical advice on the Nine things you can do to support the trans community and the start of follow up work on how trade unionists can defend trans rights.

Trans rights and reproductive rights are a shared fight, that’s why we joined Abortion Rights Scotland for their counter protest against the anti abortion lobby at the end of April.  This is the second year that RTiE has supported the Abortion Rights protest and once again we got a very good response. A number of people were already following us on social media, and a conversation with one of the organisers found them fully behind trans people, seeing our struggles as fundamentally linked. They had been at our trans rights protest the previous weekend, now we stood with them.

June started with us at the wonderful Porty Pride, both hosting a stall and organising a picnic.  Folk from Porty had supported the Supreme Court protest, it was great to meet them again at such a fun event.  It was also an opportunity to get to know the awesome intersectional feminists who are organising for International Women’s Day 2026: watch this space.

Late that month we were at Edinburgh Pride, both on the march and with a stall.  Zines and stickers flew off the table and we made some new friends. too.  Never stop remembering that Pride is a Protest!

August started with our publishing a major piece of analysis on how the Christian right, based in the USA, is a global threat. They are attacking the rights of women, gay and bisexual people, and trans people.  They systematically use their immense wealth to push propaganda internationally, with significant focus on the United Kingdom.

Later that month we helped advertise gender diverse events in Edinburgh.  This provided details on events and shows that celebrate trans voices, gender diversity, and non-conformity from trans and non-binary creators to drag, androgyny, and beyond.

We also published a new zine, Debunking Supreme Court Myths, on why the Supreme Court ruling on “biological sex” is a threat to all women, and an analysis ‘Standing together against the far right. They are the real threat to women’s and children’s rights’ contrasting what the gender critical feminists are doing against what is needed.

August ended with the RTiE Clothes Swap event at Augustine United Church.  Lots of folks swapping clothes, getting free hair cuts and chatting.  Like all RTiE events it was a tribute to everyone who got stuck in to make it happen: everyone did what they could when they could.  Collecting clothes at the Meadows Event, transporting, sorting and storing.

September started with a verbal deputation made by RTiE to Edinburgh Council on the ban on trans kids’ bathroom use.  The ban was also opposed by deputations from Trans Kids Deserve Better, the Friends of Abbeyhill, Scottish Trans, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, LGBT Youth Scotland, BAAT Scotland Council, the REPAIR Network, and the Educational Institute of Scotland.  Nonetheless the ban walked through following a threat of legal action.

We also published ‘Down the far right Rabbit hole’, examining the gender critical response to the Tommy Robinson racist rally and the moral panic over Charlie Kirk.  The question remains why are so many of them so silent about the rightwards shift of their movement?

November started with an RTiE demonstration to support and protect Scotland’s transgender community in the face of rising persecution and discrimination.  The demonstration was scheduled to coincide with – and counteract – a protest from pressure group Women Won’t Wheesht over the implementation of the Supreme Court’s (SC) ruling for single-sex spaces, a policy that RTiE believes is demeaning and dehumanising for trans people.

We ended the month on the solemn note of the Trans Day of Remembrance, but also with the publication of our new community zine ‘Supreme Injustice’.  It is free of charge, and our awesome allies at Argonaut Books, Lavender Menace, Lighthouse and Typewronger have taken this new zine to help spread the word.

The year closed with an article ‘Some Thoughts on the Levy Review’, oh and a festive social gathering too!