Category: Writing
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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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Down the far-right Rabbit hole
Gender critical “feminism” has always been a broad church, the agreed starting point being that trans women are, in some way, a threat to women’s rights, women’s safety, and a threat to the safety of children. But when you start from this false premise you end up in strange places. Having rejected the intersectional feminism…
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A dark day for Edinburgh education
The Edinburgh Council Bathroom ban. At the Education, Children and Families Committee 2nd September 2025 The day began well. As well as a verbal deputation made by RTiE, the ban on trans kids’ bathroom use was also opposed by deputations from Trans Kids Deserve Better, the Friends of Abbeyhill, Scottish Trans, the National Association of…
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Edinburgh Council bathroom ban
This is a copy of the verbal deputation made by Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh to the Edinburgh Council Education, Children and Families Committee, 2nd September 2025. The proposed ban on trans kids’ bathroom use before the committee was also opposed by deputations from Trans Kids Deserve Better, the Friends of Abbeyhill, Scottish Trans, the National Association…
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On strengthening women’s and children’s rights
On Saturday 17th August, the BBC reported that a legal action had been lodged against the Scottish Government, claiming rules on transgender people in custody and transgender pupils in schools are “in clear breach” of the Supreme Court judgement in April. But coming on the same day as far right, violent, male misogynists took to…
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Debunking Supreme Court Myths
On why the Supreme Court ruling on “biological sex” is a threat to all women. The idea of banning trans people from a space relies on the ability to somehow tell that someone is trans. This harms cis women who appear more masculine. It means that every woman who does not appear “perfectly feminine” (whatever…
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Far Right Christian Interference in UK Society
The following article was derived from a BlueSky post by Fergus Murray (linktree), which aggregated discussion forum links from the RTiE activist group. Any errors are my own. The Christian right, based in the USA, is a global threat. They systematically use their immense wealth to push propaganda internationally, with significant focus on the United…
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Trans Kids Deserve Better
Trans young person…thirty years on “In the 1990s, I was a teenager and still at school. School was a nightmare. I did not fit in my body among my school peers. My deviance from classic beauty, stereotypical femininity prompted ostracization, rather than the unwanted, inappropriate sexual attention of some of my peers. Practically, there was…
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Advocates for Trans Healthcare provide space for discussion at Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress in Edinburgh
FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE Advocates for Trans Healthcare provide space for discussion at Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress in Edinburgh On Wednesday 19th, advocates for trans healthcare gathered outside the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. Their aim: to provide a space for attendees of the Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress to talk with real…
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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)…
Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh 