The supreme court ruling last week is the result of years of campaigning by dubiously funded hate groups determined to roll back trans rights in this country.
It is an attempt to eliminate us from public life by preventing our access to crucial spaces like public bathrooms and opening us up to even greater violence and abuse.
The normalisation of bathroom surveillance would harm ALL women and gender minorities in the UK, but it would be a hammer blow to trans women, who are already subject to awful levels of violence and abuse.
As in America, the demonisation of trans women, migrants, and other vulnerable minorities represents an attempt by the far right to normalise hate and lay the foundations for fascism.
The supreme court’s capitulation to this anti-trans hate movement marks a very dangerous moment for trans people in the UK, and ‘gender critical’ hate groups are already using it to attack trans rights and normalise our exclusion from crucial spaces in public.
In response, we need to come together, stand up and fight back. We condemn the supreme court’s ruling and the terfs celebrating their success in punching down against a vulnerable minority.
We demand trans liberation – now! We recognise the intersections of our struggle with the fight against racism, patriarchy, and the genocide in Palestine. And we declare loudly and for all to hear: trans people are going nowhere!
Join us on Sunday at 11am at Bonn Square to stand up for trans people!
