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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 4d

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 8d

Lucy Powell has warned that Labour should not wave through a devastating trans bathroom ban 👇

Ripping up trans rights would be a disaster for Labour, for business, for women, and for the wider LGBT+ community.

It's wrong. Labour needs to stop aping Trump and Farage, and protect our human rights.

Lucy Powell calls for MPs to vote on single sex space guidance

The Labour deputy leadership candidate calls for a debate and vote on guidance which is expected to say that trans people should be excluded from single sex spaces.

news.sky.com

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 8d

This bathroom ban will be Labour's legacy.

You can stop it.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 8d

A woman walks in, walks out and loudly shouts there's a man in the women's toilets

A trans man who tried to follow the EHRC's advice to use a women's toilet

This is Labour's bathroom ban

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 8d

As a cultural organisation, a hospitality business and as an employer of over 100 people, making any change to who can use which bathroom will not be operationally viable

Major cultural venue in the West of England

This is Labour's bathroom ban

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 8d

"Over the last week I don't believe there has been a day in which I haven't cried from the worry and anxiety it has brought. I have felt I can't go out in the same way I once did"

A trans woman describing her fear to TransActual

This is Labour's bathroom ban

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 8d

We are at Labour conference, telling members about the impact of the proposed bathroom ban. It would devastate trans people’s lives, create unworkable business challenges, and alienate voters.

This would be Labour’s legacy on LGBT+ rights for a generation. But it’s not too late for them to stop it.

A van with a screen on the side saying

Labour isn't working for LGBT+ voters. Stop the bathroom ban. A queue of people on a red background holding various pride flags.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 10d

NEW: Yet more businesses and organisations warn the Government that the EHRC’s proposed trans bathroom ban is unworkable. This comes after our open letter from 650+ firms urging them to reject it.

Reach out to your MP, and ask them to make sure that Ministers listen to these concerns.

UK businesses fear new EHRC guidance on toilets will be ‘unworkable’

Exclusive: Stonewall writes to ministers and warns cost of compliance could be ‘significant’ for struggling companies

www.theguardian.com

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 16d

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance isn't just about policy work – we also support our wider community.

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 22d

“[Businesses] expressed concern that the proposals would… force staff ‘into the unacceptable role of gender police’.”

Eye-opening story by @milliecooke.bsky.social on the UK’s slow-motion trans rights train crash

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Hundreds of firms warn new draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’

Exclusive: More than 650 organisations have urged Bridget Phillipson to ‘take immediate action to prevent these proposals from moving forward’

www.independent.co.uk

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 23d

The EHRC guidance is unworkable for business.

Signatories include Ben & Jerry's, Lush, Lucy & Yak and hundreds of large and small businesses across the country

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Hundreds of firms warn new draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’

Exclusive: More than 650 organisations have urged Bridget Phillipson to ‘take immediate action to prevent these proposals from moving forward’

www.independent.co.uk

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 26d

Great to see that lots of Liberal Democrat MPs have written to Bridget Phillipson, calling for full scrutiny of the EHRC's proposed guidance.

Contact your MP and tell them to do the same. Follow our steps here:

www.transsolidarityalliance.com

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 27d

🚨 Deadline TOMORROW

If your business supports inclusion – this is your last chance to sign our open letter to government. Stand against forced trans exclusion.

Sign here:

www.transsolidarityalliance.com/businesses-o...

Stand by your inclusive business values.

Stand against forced trans exclusion.

Sign our open letter to Government from businesses calling for equalities guidelines that respect human rights.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Sep 5

Take action.

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Sep 5

The EHRC Code will devastate trans people's lives. This is an emergency.

Here are three ways to fight back.

Take action now:
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code

Three ways to fight back

Email my MP
Call my MP
Meet my MP

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Sep 5

The EHRC Code will devastate trans people's lives. This is an emergency.

Here are three ways to fight back.

Take action now:
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Sep 5

If MPs don't take action, a trans bathroom ban will be this Labour government's legacy.

We have to tell MPs to stop this before it's too late.

More to follow on actions you can take.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Sep 5

Politicians must not approve any Code of Practice that fails to respect trans people's basic human rights, and an approach of blanket and mandatory trans exclusion will destroy the UK's standing as a global leader on LGBT+ rights.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Sep 5

We all need to see what the EHRC has created and Parliament needs to be able to scrutinise it properly with a free vote, not have it gain ministerial approval in secret.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's up to the Government what happens next, Bridget Phillipson could fix this mess tomorrow. Waving this through this would be Labour's Section 28 moment and define their legacy on LGBT+ rights.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Sep 5

We have to fight this - and bring transparency and democracy to this process rather than allow rights to be taken away behind closed doors. For trans people and anyone who cares about us - tell your MP now to stand up against this terrifying overreach.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Sep 5

The EHRC has approached this process with one goal - reducing the human rights of trans people in this country. It has rushed through 50,000 consultation responses with the help of AI, subverting our Equality Act and turning it into a trans bathroom ban.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Sep 5

BREAKING 🚨

The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared.

It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating.

But politicians still have time to stop this.

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · Aug 26

Deeply concerned that changes to trans rights could be approved without MPs or the public seeing details. This risks undermining accountability on issues affecting lives and freedoms. Proposals must face scrutiny before approval. Everyone deserves to know what’s being decided in their name.

Letter from Clive Lewis MP to the Minister for Women and Equalities, dated 29 July 2025, raising concern that the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s revised Code of Practice may receive ministerial approval before being seen by MPs or the public. The letter calls for parliamentary scrutiny and asks whether the Government will present the changes to Parliament before approval

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Netpol @netpol.org · Aug 21

CALL-OUT: tells us about the trans community’s experiences of police stop and search powers since the introduction in May of new 'interim guidance' for police forces on stopping and searching trans people netpol.org/2025/08/21/c...

Placard showing the trans flag colours, with the words "Trans Rights Are Human Rights"

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Aug 19

TransActual's new report shows the real impact of the EHRC's interim guidance.

If the full Code of Practice becomes law, then the impact on trans people's lives will be even more devastating.

Please share these stories, and Trans+ Solidarity Alliance's briefing, with your MP ⤵️

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