Transphobia is about to be signed into law in the UK. We can fight this.
I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the Mass Lobby at Parliament on June 25th, 11am-4pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.
Last year we broke the record for an LGBT+ mass lobby of Parliament. Will you help us break it again? Join us on 25th June 2026 to demand be
The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It becomes statutory guidance in the UK by the end of June.
Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.
A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Ask your MP to:
Demand full parliamentary scrutiny, debate, and use their free vote on the EHRC Code of Practice.
Support any motions rejecting the EHRC guidance. As of June 4th, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has submitted a prayer motion - Early Day Motion 240.
Write to Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities about our concerns
Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.
I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.
It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:
Worried about what to say?
Bring your personal worries about transphobia being signed into law, and trans friends being excluded from public spaces. You are a living person who deserves dignity. Remind your MP of that. You will also get guidance and brochures from Trans Solidarity Alliance that outlines our demands. This is mine from last year.
Money issues?
Trans Solidarity Alliance provides a travel bursary that you can sign up for via the link.
Got a refusal or no response from your MP?
Come anyway! You can request a same-day appointment with your MP through a process called greencarding. They will come and see you if they’re already in Parliament. Even if they don’t, they’re made acutely aware of your cause because you showed up in person. This is my greencard from last year.
Here is the EHRC Code of Practice in full. It's a tough read, but some highlights are:
Organisations can’t provide trans-inclusive, single-sex services, or they risk being sued for discrimination.
e.g. domestic violence support for women including trans women, men’s rugby group including trans men (12.68).
Trans people will have nowhere safe to pee.
If you’re a trans man, businesses can't allow you to pee in the men's, and you can also be ejected from women’s bathrooms if you’re perceived as a man. Vice versa for trans women. EHRC suggests a ‘third space’ bathroom, which is discriminatory and unworkable for most businesses. (13.130-133)
Sports organisations must exclude trans people from single-sex competitions (13.73).
A women’s only sports competition must exclude trans women because of their biological advantage or face potential lawsuits (13.74), but a trans man who has undergone testosterone treatment can also be excluded based on fairness rules (13.81).
Trans women are stripped of the legal definition of ‘lesbian’, and therefore no longer have legal protections if they’re discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation. (2.50, 2.92).
Here is the Good Law Project's better explanation of the EHRC Code.
I have also made a PDF printout of QR codes for the government petition, email your MP tool, and mass lobby link to pass around your communities. DM me and I'll send it to you.
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@saintofthestreets
|| Thank you for letting me yap about the history of my girl!!!
This whole non-fandom OCs thing started when I was 15 and just getting into digital art after I decided I wanted to turn my MLP OCs into something else. When I started forming the story, it was initially intended to be a kids TV show idea, kinda like MLP, Star vs the Forces of Evil, Steven Universe, that kind of stuff, you know?
And Stephanie was NOT the main character, but actually a bit of a comedic relief character. There was no such thing as a universal or even an elemental, just silly magic vibes go weeee~
She had her powers to create nature, but she also had the ability to turn into a cat (for some reason).
I honestly do not even remember that much of it, the whole idea was a lot of blur and I had no experience writing or anything, so nothing very concrete ever came of it.
Although! I did play around with the idea of remaking it into a silly little AU in the current setting where Stephanie is a an absolutely rabid faunal elemental capable of shapeshifting into either a bird or a cat :P ||
given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
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@livelynumbskull
|| Thank you for letting me yap about this!!!
1.) Steph used to have a scythe!
So in their world the soul is an organ in one's body, but it's something called a "phasing organ" which means that it can change shape and be taken out of the body and still perform its function. With this SOME people are able to change its shape into a tool, most commonly weapons, which have some kind of power imbued in them.
Now I have changed it so that not everyone can summon soul weapons, but back in the day (a whole 383 weeks ago as you can see XD) I was obsessed with giving all the characters soul weapons. And the type of weapon and its appearance was supposed to give something away about the character.
Like, scythes were supposed to be the weapons of those associated with the Goddesses of their world - universals and royalty. And all universals were supposed to have their scythes forged out of starlight with some aspects of either their favorite or their birth magical element visible on it.
But over time, with how little Stephanie's Starlight Scythe appeared in literally anything I made, it stopped making sense for her to have a weapon? Then I kinda retconned the lore and stuff, so Steph's scythe is a thing of the past. She doesn't want to hurt anyone, it really doesn't make sense for her to have a weapon and a scythe is too edgy for her anyway XP
2.) Steph's story was supposed to end with her becoming a demigoddess!
The current final arc is basically about all the universals who have ever been killed getting revived at once (don't ask me how, I already feel cringe explaining this 😅) , and since most of them were literal children when they died there's now hundreds of defenseless kids set for another painful death. Our main group tries gather all the universals, fight the Alliance driving the anti-universal sentiment, the kingdom of Tanesia (our main setting) leaves the alliance, war is declared from all sides, chaos and high stakes all around.
At one point it looks like our heroes are turning the public to their side, but that rise doesn't last long. A lot of blood is spilled, morals fade away, blame sets in, mistakes are made until the resistance is eventually cornered at Tanesia's last remaining fort. Blah blah blah defenses fall, Stephanie shatters her soul to unleash the condensed magic inside of it and creates a new world where everyone she holds dear will be safe from now on, erasing her own existence in the process.
Plot plot plot, the Goddesses (with some persuasion from the ever-compassionate Death) agree to try to put Stephanie's soul back together, basically gluing it together with their own magic to fill out the missing parts, completing the unconventional and delicate job about 10 years after her death, they make her a new body and bring her to the world her magic had formed.
Stephanie gets to spend a few more decades with the people she loves, having to learn how to move a body that has never moved before, how to do everything again, losing all of the magic she prided herself on, constantly feeling like this body isn't hers, always needing help with things, always exhausted, some of her memories gone with the parts of her soul that couldn't be retrieved, unable to have kids (one of her biggest dreams since the start is to have a family) and with a much shorter lifespan than she would've had otherwise. And one day, her unstable soul ends up falling apart again and she disappears from the world for the last time, having come to term with all of her choices and everything she's lost, grateful for every additional second she got to have with her found family. She gets to fade away feeling perfectly at peace.
But it was supposed to end very differently originally. When the Goddesses still walked their world, they would award extraordinary achievements with demigodhood, eternal life, and the birth of a new element. Stephanie's sacrifice would've gotten their attention, as there has not yet been a non-Celestial that had created a new world. They would've brought Steph back as a demigoddess to care for and sustain the world she had created. ( I never did figure out what element her ascension would have birthed.)
Bleh! No consequences whatsoever??? LAAAMEEEEE. I have come to favour more bittersweet endings over triumphant endings since then. Happy end at an extremely high cost. 🤭 It doesn't really make sense with the way the lore got changed and let's be real, the world really doesn't need an immortal Stephanie. Girl would go crazy at some point. ||
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💚 (green heart) — something they’d wish they could change
@saintofthestreets
|| There are so many things Steph would change if she could. She'd have a better start at life, a caring mother in her life, her sister Celeste would still have her eye and her demeanor never would've changed, her visual oddities would be gone, universals wouldn't be hunted... She'd make the world a little kinder, a little brighter, a little happier.
But if she could have only one change, she'd have her friend Ash back. He was always more like the brother she never had, she misses him a lot.
One thing she'd never change is her sister Ember. Ember is and always has been the best✨. ||