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Not the TERFs, not the State; we decide our own fate.
LONDON & CARDIFF, 1 NOVEMBER 2025, 12:00PM
Young trans rights activists from (TKDB) organised counter-demonstrations in London and Cardiff, alongside attending one in Edinburgh, as TERFs gathered to mandate the "legal enforcement" of the UK Supreme Court’s dangerously transphobic interpretation of the Equality Act. This was a reaction to the first demonstration by this TERF group in months; we must show them that hatred is not welcome anywhere in our country.
On April 16 2025, the UK Supreme Court decided that "sex" in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. The court found that obtaining a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) does not change a person's legal sex for the purposes of this Act. This interpretation of the Equality Act 2010 - a law that protects individuals from discrimination and harassment - will affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of people living throughout the UK, putting gender non-conforming people at increased risk of violence, hate speech, and hate crime. These incidents have already become a more frequent occurrence in recent years due to the politicisation of trans people.
Additionally, in now-withdrawn guidance, the EHRC decided that the Supreme Court ruling means that trans people should be prohibited from using bathrooms and public spaces correlating with their own gender identity, putting many in increased danger of violence and rape.
Feminism means protecting rights for all women and everyone who experiences misogyny. If TERFs were really trying to protect women, they would be horrified by the violence trans women and girls experience constantly, not attempting to make it worse. They’re no feminists; they’re just racist, transphobic cowards hiding behind a mask of “protecting women’s spaces” from the very people those spaces need to protect the most.
Office for National Statistics data shows that trans people are two times as likely as cisgender people to be victims of crime; and, according to the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, they are four times more likely to be victims of violent crime, including rape and sexual assault. Home Office statistics reveal that the number of reported hate crimes against transgender people in England and Wales has sharply increased from 2,799 in 2020/21 to 4,889 in 2022/23; yet this is a small number in comparison to the estimated 88% of Transgender people do not report Hate Crimes they experience (Government Equalities Office). The TERFs fighting for these damaging changes must be stopped immediately, our voices must be heard.
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Photo 2 credit to WhatTheTrans
Despite harassment from state thugs, the blocs stayed strong and got our message across.
WHEN TRANS RIGHTS ARE UNDER ATTACK, WHAT DO WE DO? STAND UP, FIGHT BACK.