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Introduction 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. Surveys and other forms of data collection often use “observational coding”, meaning that the interviewer simply records what they assume the gender/sex of the person being interviewed to be. This approach is specifically endorsed by the trans-hostile…
Trans patients in certain regions are having their repeat prescriptions withdrawn and being left at risk of serious medical harm, following slipshod new policies rolled out by local NHS England authorities. In the last two years, a number of Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) have instituted policies forbidding NHS GPs from maintaining shared care agreements with private specialists, effectively…
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. We have previously raised concerns about its chair, Simon Wessley . Other members of the board are associated with the anti-trans group CAN-SG and SPLC listed hate…
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 open – the puberty blocker ban made national headlines – the driving forces behind the erosion of adult care are more nebulous, and their effects distributed seemingly randomly. On paper, little to…
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 months after Trans Safety Network first contacted him and DHSC to raise about their influence over trans healthcare policy given the significant safeguarding issues. Leaked logs from the Bayswater discord…
Dear Healthwatch, Trans Safety Network was shocked by the dangerous recommendations of your recent trans healthcare report. We find it hard to believe that any trans organisations or persons were involved significantly beyond the initial survey, given the transphobic language used in the initial blog post talking about this, citation of reports written by known anti-trans authors, and the harmful…
Background The “Sullivan Review” was commissioned by Michelle Donelan (then Minister for Science) in February 2024. She announced it as a response to “ the slow creep of wokeism ” in science, marking it as a close cousin of the “anti-DEI” yahooism currently causing immeasurable damage to scientific research in the US . This article is concerned with the first of the two reports this review has…
London Trans Rights Protest, April 2022. Photo by Karollyne Videira Hubert on Unsplash In July last year, we exposed Bayswater Support Group’s private Discord for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, revealing evidence of child abuse and political lobbying. Bayswater describes itself as offering “parents whose children have a transgender identity somewhere to talk, share and be understood”. But…
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 services, public functions and associations tomorrow (Monday, 19th May 2025). In light of the transphobic and harmful interim update issued by the EHRC in the wake of the recent Supreme Court judgment on the…
London Trans+ Pride 2023, photo by John Lubbock, WikiMedia Commons 141 LGBTQ+, feminist and allied organisations have signed an open letter , written by Trans Safety Network (TSN), calling for the organisers of Pride events across the UK to take a stand against transphobia by barring all political parties advocating for or complicit in transphobia, including the Labour Party and the Conservative…
