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
- Trans Pride Walthamstow
- Queer in Tech
- Equality Party
- The North Wales Trans, Intersec and Nonbinary Network
- BiCamp UK CIC
- TRUK United FC
- Trans Radio UK
- Trans Pride Southampton
- Butch Revival CIC
- House Ball Scotland
- Equality Amplified
- LGBT+ Barking and Dagenham Adult Social Network
- Seditionist Distribution
- Trans Mission Wirral
- Ellie Lowther Collective Ltd
- Hastings and Rother Rainbow Alliance
- TransPALS
- Quirk! Church for Queer People by Queer People
- Resisting Transphobia on Edinburgh (RTiE)
- Sussex Transcendence
- Deal Pride
- CYOA sober queer dance party
- Transmuted
- Polari Press
- Big Queer Picnic Cardiff
- Socialist Party
- Southampton & South West Hampshire Trades Union Council
- Anarchist Federation
- Global Women's Strike
- Cool2BTrans
- Southampton Hospitals Unison
- Westminster LGBT+ Forum
- The Alphabet Collective
- Trans Pride Bristol
- TransLucent.Org.Uk
- Southend Pride
- Liverpool Sisterhood
- Bicon Continuity Ltd
- Queer Fight Club Newcastle
- Kent and East Sussex Socialist Party
- East and Southeast Asians North East
- Zesty Siblings
- Lincs Trans Pride
- Pluto Q
- Sordya
- Stirling Pride
- The Unique Transgender Network - North Wales
- Derby Pride CIO
- BiCon 2025
- Revolutionary Communist Group - Liverpool
- Hot Shoe Media Ltd
- Bristol Leading Against Transphobia
- Decolonising The Outdoors
- The Martial Arts
- DPAC Sheffield
- Revolutionary Communist Group/Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!
- Octavius Theatre Company
- Cook'd and Bomb'd
- Queer Strike
- Be Gay Do Climbs
- Trans Pride Exeter
- Middlesex Pride
- The Trans Tearoom
- Essence of Thought
- Songbirds Choir
- PCS London and South East Regional Committee
- PCS Proud
- Glow Choir Brighton
- Bears Against Bigotry
- Leeds Queer Film Festival
- Moorpride @ Moorfields Eye Hospital
- Exeter Pride
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, member, LAFT
- Petra Davis
- Ella Watts
- Tristan Smith
- Sophie Coyne
- Jenni Goodchild
- Braden Quade
- Rachael Spurway
- Mikey Lio
- Philippa East, Clinical Psychologist and Author
- Sam Halford
- Andrea Swanson, LGBTQ+ mom and ally
- Sonya Fiset
- Cheryl Morgan
- Sloan Rowan-Richards
- Jake Tibbits
- Emma Day
- Sarah Browning
- Michelle Goldsmith, Parent of gender non-conforming kids
- Ethan S
- Amelia Sanders
- Rebecca Pillinger
- Mel Bridge
- Jay Statham
- Bima Loxley
- Dylan Jones
- Mandy smith, Manager, Afterschool club
- Grey Nicholson
- Will Taylor
- Ellie Lewis
- Felix Weber
- Zoë Wilcox
- Teagan Curwen
- Dane Rogers
- Ricardo Fonseca
- Rory
- Jamie Rogers, Ally
- Kari Gledhill
- Rae Elster
- Devin Valentine
- Tom Purdie
- Eilís Ní Fhlannagáin
- Zofie Darley
- Ceridwen Whittington
- Jacob
- Christine
- Adi Aliza Daly-Gourdialsing
- Lori Topper
- Bryony Davies
- Davina Haggett
- Rachel Collinson
- Meg Shepherd-Foster
- James Smith
- Jack Dover
- Stephanie Gray
- Polly Llwynfedwen
- Stephenie robinson
- Chase Mnatzaganian
- Lauren Levine
- Stacey Maginnis
- Roxána Báthory
- Stephen Turnbull
- Emily Raven
- Ashley Williams
- Samantha Mullaney
- Jack Michael Ellis Blomfield, Committee Member, Eastern Region Young Greens
- Peter Ó'Máille
- Alex Celeste
- Briar Lovett
- Becky Essex
- AC Baker
- Alex Montgomery
- Rowan McLaughlin
- Binx
- Paula Goodwin
- Sophie
- Simon Hawthorn
- Lindsey Spilman
- Francis Coultas
- Drayce Beckett, Economic development officer, Plymouth City Council
- Aiden Fraser
- Ellie Rowland-Callanan
- Fergus Murray
- Hannah Dalton
- Jessica Smith
- Robin
- Caitlin Young
- RoseMary Warrington, Officer, Waltham Forest Green Party
- Dr Clements
- Chloe Anderson, Organiser, Huddersfield Alternative Pride
- Sarah Walker
- Dr Jenna Scaramanga
- E. Ahmed
- Tom Ashley
- JJ Green
- E O'Shea
- Revd Matthew Watts, Curate, Chruch of England
- Zoë Coxall BSc (hons), Feminist & Psychologist
- Erin Sage
- James Gretton
- Rosie
- Jo fredericks
- Declan Clune, Member, Unite the Union
- Tas Cooper, Clerk, Oxford Quaker Meeting
- Dana G.
- Josephine Seaton
- Katie
- Ùna Proops
- Nick Davies
- Sophie Rebecca
- Professor Pippa Catterall, Co-chair, Westminster LGBT+ Forum
- Marlo High
- Evan Mackie, PTQ parent and LGBTQIA++ activist
- Benedetta Pintus, Transfeminist and queer activist from Sardinia
- Katie Toulmin
- Roxána Báthory
- Donna Dee, Workplace Trade Union Representative
- Derek Mcmillan, Socialist
- Ilia Wardell
- Mo Moulton, Professor, University of Birmingham
- Milo Theobald
- Chantelle Callagher
- Alyssa Ridgeway
- Sara Pintus
- Mrs Allison Medhurst, Retired Business Owner
- Gaz de Vere, Photographer
- Jodie Crellin
- Sarah Gaines
- Debs Harris, University of Westminster
- Rhiannon Thomas Val
- Jack C
- Joanna Haigh
- Lyndsey Cannon
- Daisy Jay Bretherton
- Ffion Wyn Jones
- Julie Lowe, Site Manager
- Steve Davis, Senior Lecturer, University of Westminster
- Kirsty Morrison
- Cath Tomlinson, Student Advisor
- Keira James
- Emma Scarbrough, Lead Engineer
- Carl W. Jones
- Amie Curry, Illustrator
- Lauren Cook
- Jaime Hill
- Sophie Ciurlik Rittenbaum, member, Fossil Free Pride
- Alexander Lilley-McCamley
- Dr Sally Coe, GP, NHS
- Luke
- Eris Vornhecke
- Rayleigh
- Dr Liz James, Security Researcher
- Alexis Footman
- Alexandra Wald
- Alana Mullen
- Etho Burrow
- Zoë Playdon, Emeritus Professor of Medical Humanities, University of London
- Vicky Pulman, Leadership Team, The Equality Party
- Christian Jago, Content Designer, University of Westminster
- James E
- Hazel popham
- Clare Peterson, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Manager, University of Westminster
- Dawn Grant
- Michael Trahair
- Jeremiah Kelly
- Dr. Hannah Eberle
- Jayne Sharples
- Kathryn
- xuying j
- Scarlett Wilkie
- James Campbell
- Hannah Nicholson
- Sinéad Collins
- David Harris, Manager, NHS
- Steven Perkins
- Mhelescent Soriano, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Royal Free Hospital Hampstead NHS Trust
- Dani Riley
- Zoe Blackmore
- Olwen Lachowicz, Durham Alt Pride
- Gemma Audus
- Gabriel Silvano
- Ruan Chennell-Barraclough
- Naomi Webb
- Chloe Querishi
- Ruqn Chennell-Barraclough
- Fraoch Lux
- Dion Georgiou, Associate Lecturer in History, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Ryan Oliver
- Lucy Phipps
- Jethro Richards
- Iona Rodman
- Cira Searle
- Dr Rosemary Smith
- William Fieldhouse-Allen
- Vidda Le Feber
- Findlay Bewicke-Copley
- Ben Hutchings
- Dr David Allsopp
- Sam Hope
- Ray Goodspeed, Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM)
- Md Samrat Khan, Member, LGBT Barking and Dagenham Adult Social network
- Carly Swanson
- Alex Cheung
- Pam
- Melanie Richmond
- Chris Attfield
- Han Senarillos
- Carla Ottersen, Founder, Hot Shoe Media Ltd
- Mandy Parry
- Emma Spencer
- Josh King, Construction management
- Matthew Dark, Customer Experience Manager, University of Westminster
- Arlo H
- Imogen Yeung
- Rajat Shah
- M
- Leah Siegel, Lab Technician, University of Westminster
- Martin Cox
- J Smith, Co-organiser, Bristol Leading Against Transphobia
- Lucy Aphramor, Dietitian
- Rachel Miller, PhD Candidate, University of Manchester
- Alexandra Mason
- Abbie Healy
- Brenda Marie Lissimore, Member, White Rock Pride Society
- Stephen Dickinson
- James Brough
- AB
- Michael Broussard
- Paul Whitelaw
- Aoife Justia
- Hollie Fullerton
- Lucy Lanois
- Simon Richardson
- Dr Adrian Howlett
- Lindsay Pollock, Artist
- Phoebe Dunsire, Co-Founder, United in Awareness
- Dani Ostanek
- Johanna D
- C.Wardle
- Louise Nightingale
- Lotte Holmes
- Andrew S Hickman (he/him), Trans Rights Activist
- Alexandra Greenwood
- Michael Clelland
- Dr Tom Moore, Associate Head of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Education and Students), University of Westminster
- Stephanie Hilditch
- Juno Perry
- Clara Halsall
- Tom Layton, Author
- Kevin Sweeney
- Joaquim Marques, PCS Org. & Equality Officer, DCMS GEC and L&SE Exec. Committee member, The Wallace Collection
- Alexis
- Noah Brown
- Liz Brown
- serpilkemalbay, İmece Domestic Workers Union
- Declan Gallagher
- Theodore Savage
- Sarah Louise Gregory
- Joe Dale, PCS rep, signing in personal capacity
- John Ainslie, Branch Secretary, PCS
- Jamie Edgar
- John Foley
- Samantha Turner
- John Gribble
- Ken Shinn, Administrator, National Health Service
- Puck Oseroff-Spicer, PCS rep
- Michael Wiggins
- Dominie Leigh
- Airen F.
- Nick Butt
- Penelope Friday, Writer
- Isobel Gray
- Jessica Haynes
- Dr Chris Parkes, Senior Lecturer in History Education , King's College London
- Aimil Proudman-Harris
- Nic Turner
- Julia Shacklock
- Andrew Barnes
- Ash Paley, PhD student, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
- jack rees
- Ash Alexander, Artist
- Mischa Griffiths
- Maria Enriquez Harris
- Nathan Oseroff-Spicer
- Liat Norris, Secretary, PCS Proud
- Jordan David, PCS
- Libbie Noakes, Mum
- Travis Suttie
- Hilde Stephansen, University of Westminster
- Amber Wynn
- Jane Briggs
- Robbi H
- Julie Kenny
- Joanne Hawkes
- Nadia
- Katie Munday
- Chloe Hawryluk
- Niamh Mitchelhill
- Richard Morris
- George
- Cathryn Wynn-Jones
- Beth Grady
- Tracey Farrar
- Megan Butt
- Bea Smith
- Katharine Howard-Comber
- Daniel Lopez
- Kai
- Philip Hammond
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.