Foundation

2025 has been a terrible year for transsex rights. Groups fighting against our assimilation, our healthcare, and our entire presence in society have had remarkable success – with no sign of slowing.

Accessing sex-affirming healthcare has become harder than before, with GPs refusing to prescribe hormones and waitlists spiralling out of control. Meanwhile, our allies appear helpless and increasingly locked out from political and social power.

Efforts by the Gender Critical Ideology Movement culminated in the United Kingdom's Supreme Court ruling in April this year, which granted the state a carte blanche to introduce bathroom bans under a farce of judicial fiat; this same ruling energised anti-trans organisations and prompted them to double down on their rhetoric.

At this time we need a renewed, single-focus movement, focused on the material needs and wants of our people. Existing approaches have failed completely at stopping the rise of transphobia in society – as the state increasingly fails us, we should take control of our own destiny.

Concretely, we believe the following:

• Single-focus: By transsexuals, for transsexuals. We are facing real and targeted state oppression, both in the UK and worldwide; trans lives are too valuable and our struggle for liberation too important to come with the strings of any ideology attached. Our focus is and always will be trans liberation and trans liberation only.
• The NHS does not have our best interests at heart: A system that fails to provide prompt cancer treatment for those who have been diagnosed will be even more derelict for patients that it considers an annoyance and lesser in both personhood and severity of illness.
  We advise all people, trans or not, able to attain satisfactory healthcare elsewhere to avoid the NHS due to poor standard of care, inhuman treatment, and lengthy waiting times. This extends to hormone treatment for trans people, which may be ordered easily and quickly from overseas pharmacies, without encountering the severe health risks associated with interacting with the NHS.
• Information Collection: Remaining informed is crucial for both safety and forward planning. However, staying up to date can be stressful and simply reacting to news and social media risks locking us into the present moment. Our areas of engagement should be forward-focussed and centred on the big picture. Active research and concise summaries of our conclusions from them are necessary to prevent our people from being blindsided again.
• Helping people pass: Whether we like it or not, passing can be helpful for achieving equitable treatment within society even if it should be provided as default.
  While not universally applicable, the majority of trans people aim to present as our identified genders – and we must help others achieve this when desired. Some will find this easier than others – but it's important to make do with what we have.
  We should help our people access the hormones and surgery we need, but also share resources and set up groups for voice training and fashion advice. This doesn't just help with individual confidence, but also with our standing in a judgmental society.
• Importance of mutual aid: By focusing our resources and efforts within the trans community we may eventually hope to uplift it despite the disadvantage that society and the state have placed us at. To achieve this, we should organise with trustworthy friends to build networks and communities. Even if you lack resources yourself, remember, community is a form of mutual aid.
• Local influence: Where we can, we should influence how organisations we're members of interact with our people. Creating opportunities and environments that are beneficial for other our people eventually creates better opportunities and environments for them to help other members of our community in turn. Goodwill is a virtuous cycle, and we should cultivate it at every opportunity.
• Staying vs. leaving: Leaving the UK is understandable, and many trans people are, including some of us. However, we can do better than leaving quietly; others may not be in the same position to leave as easily and we thus have a duty of care towards them. The end stage of trans advocacy should be more than a quiet exit off-stage-left.

Our movement should welcome discussion and tolerate disagreements where they don't conflict with our core mission. We are not committed to any particular philosophy on trans issues, except in that we support the right to change one's sex without impediments.