Category: Protests
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Supreme Injustice
WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED After the unjust and discriminatory Supreme Court ruling against trans rights on 16 April 2025, as well as the subsequent EHRC guidance – this is a zine documenting and archiving trans people’s voices, art and resistance against the ruling. SUPREME INJUSTICE
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We are not the threat – 199 days later at the Scottish Parliament
On 1st November 2025 Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh (RTiE) led a 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…
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Abortion Rights -We support a person’s right to choose
We support a person’s right to choose. We support bodily autonomy in healthcare. Trans rights and reproductive rights are a shared fight, that’s why we joined Abortion Rights Scotland for their counter protest on Saturday the 26th of April. This is the second year that RTiE has supported the Abortion Rights protest and once again…
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Thank you to every one of the beautiful thousands
Thank you to every one of the beautiful thousands who turned up today. We will not be erased! This protest shows one thing more than any other; where they need to bus in a couple hundred to their fill out little hate meets, thousands organically show up to support us. where they need to utilise…
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We refuse to be erased
SATURDAY 19TH APRIL 1PM FOOT OF THE MOUND, EDINBURGH –RESIST TRANSPHOBIA! RESIST ERASURE! RESIST THE UK SUPREME COURT RULING! We will gather at 1pm at the Foot of the Mound – in front of the National Gallery and next to the Royal Academy. We will rally with speeches for 30 minutes, and then march to…
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Trans Pride Scotland 2025
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…
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Abortion is a Human Right
Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh joined Abortion Rights Scotland’s action on Saturday 27th April 2024, to underline the reality that abortion is a human right, that trans liberation includes reproductive rights, and that women’s liberation and trans liberation are overlapping chapters of the same story. Each year, SPUC (Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child)…
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Trans Pride Scotland 2024
What a great day! Even the weather was kind, as the sun came out after torrential rain and the occasional hail storm had made getting to Kilmarnock an interesting experience. Over 600 people participated in a march through Kilmarnock from Howard Park to the Ayrshire College. Our Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh (RTiE) banner was there,…
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Real feminists reject transphobia
In a keynote speech at Saturday’s protest, a member of RTiE analysed how Posie Parker is fracturing and factionalising the gender critical ‘movement’. “We live in absurd times. Nominal feminists like Kellie-Jay Keen align with Fascists such as Britain First and Tommy Robinson. Self-described ‘Leftists’ such as Julie Bindel can move from condemning her politics…
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Drowning out Posie Parker
Saturday 6th of April, a great clamour echoes down Princes Street. A mixture of music and furious chants and sirens interrupts the usual hum of tourists and traffic. By the gardens, a quiet metal pen is surrounded on both sides. Posie Parker, real name Kelly Jay Keen, is a right-wing internet poster who makes a…
Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh 