London Trans+ Pride 2023, photo by John Lubbock, WikiMedia Commons
We are LGBTQ+ and feminist organisations and individuals calling on the organisers of Pride events across the UK to take a stand against transphobia.
In the wake of the recent transphobic Supreme Court judgement, Labour minister Karin Smyth called for the Tories to apologise for previously having promised to make reforms that would benefit trans communities. This comes on the back of other key Labour figures, including Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting, parroting anti-trans rhetoric, associating with anti-trans organisations and calling for discrimination against trans people and our segregation within healthcare services. It is clear that the Labour Party is increasingly hostile to the interests of trans people.
Meanwhile, the Conservatives, having presided over a period of increasing hostility to and violence against trans people, made repeated threats against trans rights and used transphobia as a central plank of their electoral campaigning have been gloating about the Labour Party openly adopting their transphobic stance.
In light of this, we, the undersigned, call on the organisers of Pride events to follow the lead of Pride events in Northern Ireland, Brighton and Bristol in barring all political parties advocating for or complicit in transphobia from their events, including the Labour Party and the Conservative Party. This includes any official presence of those parties on parades and marches, speaking invitations to politicians and any official support or endorsement by Pride organisations of these parties.
To politicians and party officials, we say that if you won’t stand with us, you can’t march with us. Pride belongs to LGBTQ+ communities, not politicians. The UK government must urgently introduce legislation to meaningfully protect the right of trans people to participate in public life, including our access to public services and facilities under our lived gender. No politician that cannot commit to this has any right to use our communities’ events for self-promotion.
Signed
Organisations
- Trans Safety Network
- United Tech and Allied Workers
- Black Trans Foundation
- Trans Aid Cymru
- Trans Liberation Cambridge
- Leeds Comets CIC
- Recovery in the Bin
- TransActual
- Manchester Disabled People Against Cuts
- Merseyside Disabled People Against Cuts
- Not A Phase
- Leeds Queer Climbing
- Bent Collective
- Oswestry Pride
- Lesbians Against Fascism and Transphobia
- Feminist Gender Equality Network
- Lazypins
- What the Trans?!
- Dandelion
- Shrewsbury Pride
- Sisters Uncut Leeds
- Wirral Trades Union Council
- TransWorcester
- Birmingham Queers for Palestine
- Not Your Scapegoat
- Manchester Trans Liberation Assembly
- Queers Play Stuff
- Norwich Pride
- Trans Aid Bristol
- Queer Boots
- UK Light Haulage
- Spectrum Inclusion
- Bristol Pride
- My Genderation
- Pride in STEM
- Mandells Publishing
- Stand For Trans Liberation
- Biscuit Bi+ Advocacy
- Queer breakfast club - Grangemouth
- Clarion LRP
- QUILL Scotland
- Bristol Leading Against Transphobia
- Queer Coffee Sutton
- Trans Pride Collective
- Tower Hamlets Trans+ Pride
- London Trans+ Pride
- Trans Pride Brighton
- Conventry Trans Pride
- Global Butterflies
- Trans Pride Hastings
- Hampshire Trans+ Network
- Trans Pride Portsmouth
- Trans Sheffield Brunch
- TACC
- Hampshire Feminist Collective
- Club Des Femmes
- My Gender Rules
- Wipe Out Transphobia
- Claires Trans Talks
- Socialist Alternative
- English Collective of Prostitutes
- Huddersfield Alternative Pride
- Fenris Games
- LGBT Out in the Bay
- Queer Tango Bristol
- TMSA-UK (Trans Masculine Support & Advice UK)
- Trans Healthcare Access Glasgow
- Orkney Pride
- Nottingham Against Transphobia
Individuals
- Owen Blacker
- Azena Timmins, Senior software engineer
- Ethan Levi Cain
- Dylan Mancuso
- Max Wilkins, Design & Marketing Lead, Shrewsbury Pride
- Bella Frimpong, Operations, Black Queer Women CIC
- Ashley Ballinger
- Dr Josephine Sirotkin
- Linda Wall
- Alex Lambert
- Anson Mackay
- Rowan Reynolds-Wright
- Julia Georgiou, General Secretary, NHBC SA
- Amara Wears
- Elizabeth Veldon, Research student, Napier University
- Dr Chris Parkes, Senior Lecturer in History Education, King's College London
- Mina Nielsen
- Scarlett Starck
- Hannah Baldwin
- Aasa Timonen, Researcher, University of Tampere
- Michael Pereira, LGBTQ DEJ staff lead, Guardian News & Media
- Aaron Michael Read
- AJ Gardner
- Damien Donnelly, Teacher & Trade Unionist
- Ryan Castellucci, Cybersecurity Expert
- Molly Maclachlan
- Andrea Carr, Mother
- Charlotte Lunn, Chemical Republic
- Will Albone
- Noel Schornhorst
- Louise Stretch
- Ashley Kent
- Vala Thorne
- Amory Oliver
- Alannah Life
- Reena Life
- Patrick Wells
- Emma Williams
- Ellen Linter
- Sherri, Retired
- Abigail Thorn, Actress & Writer
- Jae Halton
- Lucas Ali
- Elizabeth Charlton
- Jaimi Robyn Tubb
- Sammantha Harris
- Nevan Spier
- Derek Des Anges, Member, NUJ
- Becca Tomlinson, Fundraising Officer, Be Free Campaign
- Fran Amery, Senior Lecturer, University of Bath
- Ada Elbert
- Aida Paul, Founding Engineer, Reddy.io
- Dylann
- Kathy Virasith
- Catherine Edgson
- David Thomas
- Alexandra Moylett
- Ethan Osborn
- Kelly Machin
- Esmé Beaumont
- Nina Hannagan, Worried parent of trans daughter
- Jo H, Trainee Healthcare Professional
- Danni Rowan Poulton
- Charlotte Hadland
- Lucille Wright
- Charlotte Vinsen
- Katy Montgomerie
- Janice McCauley
- Caitlin McKay
- Arthur Webber
- Joe Kanuritch
- David Marsh
- Andrew Rodgers
- Patch Donahue
- Jude FireSong, performance poet, fiction writer, visual artist
- Ryan O'Carroll
- Rhi Belle, Community researcher, Trans Safety Network and Disabled People Against Cuts
- Grace Knight, Writer
- Hazel Hamilton
- Sarah Pattison
- Tabitha Cole
- Cara Legender
- Caylee Morris, Software Engineer, ROLI
- Rob McClenaghan-Harrop
- Lucy Lanois
- Cyan Goffin
- Alec Burrett
- Danielle Baxter
- Rae Haylock
- Dr Jay Todd, Research Fellow in Trans Geographies, University of Glasgow
- Tiago Sousa
- Libby Bradshaw, Canterbury Against Transphobia
- Skellie Hughes
- Will Slater
- Sarah Rose Jones
- Amy Stubbs
- Mae Smith
- Aneurin Redman-White, Chartered Engineer
- Rhedyn Thain
- Meredith Donaldson
- Iain Shepherd
- Catherine Backhouse
- Steph Paton, Journalist
- Marcus James
- Voros Medve
- Carrie Marshall
- Beth Webb
- Anya Portus
- Philip Hoggart
- Dylan Coldwater
- Lenny Fynamore
- Dr Nicolete Burbach, Social and Environmental Justice Lead, London Jesuit Centre
- Naoise Quinn, Trainee (ENVI), Volt Europa
- Lee Hurley, Journalist
- Jemma Fry
- Petra Kramer
- Billie Jean Sweeney, Freelance journalist
- Nora Shenair
- David Morgan
- Samantha Cohen
- Oliver Hood
- Ed Barton
- William Frederick McDouall
- Nika Mehta
- Todd H C Fischer
- Alexander Lane
- Amy Burford
- Praveen Amarasinghe
- Olly Tew, Secret Queer Cinema
- Alice Lee
- Gwen lloyd
- Emily Rogers
- Aspen Watts
- Tamara Marie Keating
- Dr. Gary Dillon
- Jane VanWormer
- Morgan Spicer
- Andrew Godfrey-Collins
- Cait Hurley, Independent bisexual woman
- Jayne Sutherland
- Catherine Day
- Callum Roy
- Kathryn Thompson
- Tristan Grayford
- R.H. Rishton
- Ri Baroche
- Beth Watson
- Winter
- Peter Kingswell
- Jordan Evans
- Ava Hummerstone
- Blue Firth
- Joe Groves
- Reesha Dyer-Evans
- Gosse Bootsma
- Lucy Luca
- Li Veiros
- Joanne Mason
- Janet Cashman, Equalities Officer, Wirral Unite Community Branch
- Mx. Adam Khan, Trans Activist
- Shane Phillips
- Artemis Johnson
- Heather Farnworth
- Rowan Pierce
- Dee Nutbourne
- Rudy Harries
- Victoria Oldman, Director, Trans Pride Hastings
- Steff Lee
- Yannick Forbes
- Shae Harmon, Shae Queer Therapy
- Milo Eyre-Morgan
- Sabrina Armstrong-Squires
- Emrys Jones
- Maffy Carnevale
- Jayde, Member of the wider community
- SJ Beard
- Fiadh Finnegan
- Jackie Lederer, Branch Secretary, Unite Community Portsmouth and District Branch
- Kaima
- Edvin Bekreniov
- Gwilym Evans
- Jack Newbold
- Jonathan W
- Chris Scott
- Nicola martin
- Kalvin Crawforth
- Luke brennan
- Joseph Byrne
- David Shipman
- Sophie Rose
- Kelly Wright
- Matilda Fitzmaurice, Vice chair, LGBT+ Members' Standing Committee, University College Union
- Damien Prince
- Adam Barr
- Lindsay Belderson
- Heike Holubek
- Charlie Gill
- Annie Wallace
- Cormac Kelly, Committee member, NEU
- Erin Browne
- Danielle Hughes
- Elspeth Barraclough
- Philip Matusavage
- Daniel Williams
- Patricia Ragazzon
- Nic Turner
- Julie smith
- Joanna Meader
- Oli Curtis
- Shelagh Hewitt
- Samantha Joce
- Alison Gaughan, Organiser, Huddersfield Alternative Pride
- Lyra Urrutia
- Mair Davies
- Rosie Woods
- That Clare, Trans protest singer songwriter
- Sam Berridge
- Tristan Chadwick
- Nick Ferran
- Andy Bean
- Lily Smith
- Al dsym
- F. Field
- Elias Mikael Yassin, PhD Researcher, King's College London
- Valery North
- Dr Jackie Grunsell, GP and member of Socialist Alternative
- Ashley
- Anna Madeleine
- Monica Baldwin
- Adele Retter
- Sylvie
- Helmut De Nardi
- Abby Ragazzon-Smith
- Michael Everritt, Psychotherapist
- Mara Flint, Broadcast Engineer
- Marianne Wells, Parent
- Zephyr Ogden
- Brandon D’Orlando, Health Promotion Specialist
- Stacey Tims
- Gary Lee
- Rhys Lawton
- Em Calam
- Jocelyn Price
- Jen F
- Bobbu Abadeer
- Tamsin Budd
- Anthony Bird
- Charlie Stapleton
- Sarah Dearie
- Rosemary Cumes
- Ada Wolf
- Ian Palmer
- Hannah Roberts
- Kiba Gudnadottir, Solo rights activist
- Lyndsay Thomson
- Jennie Rigg, Exec member, LGBT+ LibDems
- Rev. Graeme Thomson
- Amy Lowe
- Matilda Wilkinson
- Petra Davis
- Ella Watts
We are accepting new signatures up until Friday 2nd of May 2025, if you want to sign as an organisation or an individual, you can do so here.