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Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Young Women's Movement want to hear from young women and non-binary people, aged 16–30, about their thoughts and experiences of digital violence and its impact in their Status of Young Women in Scotland research survey. Survey closes on the 12th October. youngwomenscot.org/opportunitie...

A hand is holding a megaphone with zigzag lines to indicate loud sound. It says: "Share your views" "Status of young women in Scotland - Digital Violence and its real-life impact."

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We do not understand how they can describe the law in the way they have without seeing it as a creating a significant and urgent risk to trans children and young people.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

However, as we say several times in our response, they also have a role in highlighting to the UK Government that the current legal framework requires treating trans children and young people in ways that will put them at risk of violence and abuse and clearly impact on their human rights.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We acknowledge that it is not the EHRC’s role to create the law, but to describe how they believe it works.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

While the guidance is primarily focused on informing schools about their duties under the Equality Act, we are also concerned that only following this guidance will lead schools to neglect the human rights of trans pupils, especially those in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We are already seeing these impacts at schools across Scotland, England and Wales, and fear that this guidance will only make this worse, as it focuses almost entirely on when trans pupils can be excluded and treated differently, and never explains how they can be included and affirmed at school.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As with the EHRC’s Code of Practice, we are very concerned that following this guidance will lead to significant impacts for trans pupils, including on their mental and physical health and their ability to attend school, focus on their learning, and mix with other students.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Last week we responded to the EHRC’s consultation on their draft technical guidance for schools, which had been updated following the Supreme Court judgment on the meaning of “sex” in the Equality Act. Read our full response on our website: www.scottishtrans.org/our-response...

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This series of meetings is all about bringing us together. Let’s share knowledge, collaborate, and amplify our impact. Join us to connect, inspire, and grow—because together, we’re unstoppable.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our next Trans Community Organisers Forum is coming up! Join us on 14th October at 6pm - Online 🏳️‍⚧️ This forum is for trans and non-binary organisers across Scotland - Despite the challenges, your efforts are helping to build a stronger, more vibrant community. www.outsavvy.com/event/39877/...

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Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🐌 plantbot art - inspired by a lifelong love of stickers and little trinkets, plantbot art makes silly, joyful art celebrating queerness, nature and colour. we create handmade stickers, collaged badges and cyanotype prints!

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Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There's less than two weeks to go until Joy for All - our accessible, LGBT+, autumn makers market! 😈 Devilish Fashion - Maja transforms forgotten garments into wearable art & bold accessories, each one of a kind. Maja drives to cut down textile waste & teach people to love their clothes again.

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

TransActual partnered with @scottishtrans.bsky.social and @transsolidarity.bsky.social to bring messages from this month’s Mass Lobby for Trans Equality to the Labour conference in Liverpool, and to ask the party: what now for our standing on LGBTQ+ rights?

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who stopped to talk to us - it was heartening to see so much support from conference attendees. Our message is loud and clear - we aren't going anywhere.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We were in Liverpool yesterday with our friends from @transsolidarity.bsky.social and @transactualuk.bsky.social ahead of Andy Burnham's first conference speech, urging him to fix our broken laws and prevent further rollbacks for trans people.

A van with a large digital screen on the side, The display has a pink background and it says "Farewell to Britain's standing on LGBTQ+ rights" with the Trans Solidarity Alliance, Scottish Trans and TransActual logos.

A van with a large digital screen on the side. On the left side of the display it has a pink background and it says "Farewell to Britain's standing on LGBTQ+ rights" in colourful font. On the right there is text that says "Dear Andy, Please stand up for trans people - you have the power to make the UK safe, kind and equal for everyone. Anise" "Messages left for Andy Burnham at this month's Mass Lobby for Trans Equality.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This series of meetings is all about bringing us together. Let’s share knowledge, collaborate, and amplify our impact. Join us to connect, inspire, and grow—because together, we’re unstoppable.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today is Andy Burnham’s first party conference speech as PM. We’ve taken your messages from the mass lobby on tour to Labour conference in Liverpool, with our friends at @transactualuk.bsky.social and @scottishtrans.bsky.social We aren’t going anywhere.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you live in Forth Valley (or any other health board that refers to Sandyford), head to www.scottishtrans.org/cantkeepwait... to find out more about the campaign, and tell your health board: We can't keep waiting.

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We Can't Keep Waiting - Scottish Trans

Fill in the survey below to add your name to our letters to Scottish health boards. As we are just currently writing to health boards […]

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The letters will encourage these health boards to see if they could deliver gender affirming care, and/or provide support to people on long waiting lists and offer harm reduction services for those who are self-medicating.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We want to write letters to each of the health boards that refer people to the Sandyford. And we need you to co-sign them and help us bring the scale of this crisis to their attention.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This makes it clear to us that Sandyford is simply overrun as a service. Sandyford covers 8 health boards and it clearly can't cope. It’s time for other health boards to step up and take responsibility for trans and non-binary people in their area.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Recently, Public Health Scotland released data on the waiting lists for Gender Identity Clinics in Scotland. Using this data, we estimate that if you were to join the waiting list for Sandyford today, you would have to wait 163 years to be seen.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Are you on the Sandyford waiting list? Do you live in Forth Valley? We’re getting ready to send our letter to your health board, so if you haven’t signed it already this is your last chance! www.scottishtrans.org/cantkeepwait...

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Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Take part in LGBT Youth Scotland's Life In Scotland research project - open until the 5th October! They're looking to hear from LGBTQ+ young people aged 13-25 about their experiences and their ideas for change, to improve LGBT+ lives in Scotland Find out more here: lgbtyouth.org.uk/life-in-scot...

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Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We're off to Belfast to participate in the East-West forum bringing together LGBTQIA+ organisations from across Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland #EastWestLGBTQIAForum

View from a plane window, you can see part of the plane's wing in the foreground and you can see belfast outstretched below.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's great to have mainstream media coverage which includes the voices of trans people and our allies explaining just how much of an impact this is having on our lives. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Guardian also did a podcast covering the mass lobby at the UK Parliament, organised by our friends at @transsolidarity.bsky.social, where hundreds of people talked to their MPs about the impact of the Code.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

While the exact path to restoring our rights feels a little uncertain, we think that motions like these send a strong message that the need for change is urgent, and is not something that can be put off until a more convenient time.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The motion also covers the impacts that the Code has on gender non-conforming cis women’s access to women’s facilities. Both motions include a range of resolutions that the organisations believe will help make life better for trans people in the UK. www.libdems.org.uk/conference/m...

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Similarly, the Liberal Democrats also passed a motion at their conference earlier this week on “Restoring Trans Rights”, which notes that “The Code of Practice is discriminatory and unworkable, and places an undue burden on service providers.”

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The motion states that “the new guidance is discriminatory and unworkable and effectively excludes trans people from swathes of public life including working life” and concludes that the law must then be changed. congress.tuc.org.uk/motion-17-op...

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Trades Union Conference (TUC) recently passed a motion at their annual congress which “unequivocally condemns the EHRC’s proposed Code of Practice as a direct attack on LGBT+ equality.”

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Code of Practice came into effect nearly two months ago, but we’ve recently seen some encouraging developments and displays of solidarity from organisations who agree that that is an unacceptable way for our community to be treated.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We were pleased to contribute to this briefing and have the opportunity to speak with the Special Rapporteur about some of the specific ways that trans people in Scotland experience poverty, and how this impacts so many aspects of our lives. You can find our contribution on p.13/14

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Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every year we mark Bi Visibility day on the 23rd of September, to celebrate the wonderful diversity of the bi+ community, and challenge the stigma and erasure that bi+ people can face both within, and outwith, the LGBTQI+ community.

Graphic with a pink to blue gradient background. In the centre there is a picture of a button badge, it has a black background and says "BISEXUAL PRIDE!" on top of two overlapping pink and blue triangles. Below it says "Happy Bi Visibility day!". The Equality Network and Scottish Trans logos are at the bottom.

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Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🧚 Anastacia Illustrations - Anastacia is an illustrator who sells on the day portrait sketches, as well as illustrated prints, stickers, and zines/books. Her work is inspired by horror and fantasy, often combined with sapphic and feminist narratives.

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Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

💘 Whimsy Tattoo - Welcome to Whimsy Tattoo! I am a Scottish artist who loves all things whimsical and beautiful. I use sparkles and lots of colour to make dreamy pieces inspired by nature, girlhood and nostalgia, with the hope of creating art that will bring some magic and beauty into your space!

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Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🌊 Aliston Designs - Amy Liston, the artist and owner of alistondesigns, aims to make original art as accessible as possible by painting her seascapes and scenes onto functional everyday items such as jewellery, book bags and magnets as well as printing and producing it all in house!

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Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🏳️‍⚧️ Resisting Transphobia Edinburgh - As well as zines on fighting transphobia, our projects include participation in Pride events & ongoing outreach efforts. We aim to raise awareness & foster unity within the trans community & beyond. Join us in creating a better, safer & brighter world for everyone

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Humanist Society Scotland @humanistsociety.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Florence Oulds is the Policy & Public Affairs Coordinator at @scottishtrans.bsky.social. She'll be joining our Festival of Humanism to discuss the campaign for a watertight LGBT+ conversion practices ban. Don't miss out! www.humanism.scot/events/festi... #LGBTRights #TransRights #HumanRights

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This series of meetings is all about bringing us together. Let’s share knowledge, collaborate, and amplify our impact. Join us to connect, inspire, and grow—because together, we’re unstoppable.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you live in Ayrshire and Arran (or any other health board that refers to Sandyford), visit www.scottishtrans.org/cantkeepwait..., to find out more about the campaign, and tell your health board: We can't keep waiting.

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We Can't Keep Waiting - Scottish Trans

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We want to write letters to each of the health boards that refer people to the Sandyford. And we need you to co-sign them and help us bring the scale of this crisis to their attention.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Are you on the Sandyford waiting list? Do you live in Ayrshire and Arran? We’re getting ready to send our letter to your health board, so if you haven’t signed it already this is your last chance! www.scottishtrans.org/cantkeepwait...

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