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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

But this intervention (which follows our intervention in the Dr Beth Upton case) is just the start - we will have many more legal battles to fight in the future, including our battle against the EHRC Code of Practice. 4/5

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

But we are not alone - it is because of people like you who have put your trust in us and donated to our legal fund, sometimes a "one-off," sometimes more regularly, but whatever the case.... every penny counts. 3/5

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The effort for us to be able to do this has been truly immense - spending 1,000s of hours between us, our solicitors, Leigh Day and legal counsel in preparation. 2/5

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TRANSLUCENT STATEMENT: Today, as Chair of TransLucent, I can announce that we have submitted an application to the High Court to intervene in the Sex Matters v City of London Corporation case, the outcome of which could profoundly affect trans access to gendered spaces in the future. 1/5

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Sky Green 🦊⚧️✍️ @skycladfox.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Dignity and Respect. Those words need to haunt the Labour Party like Section 28 haunts the Tories.

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Single-Sex Spaces. 444 FOI requests were made to public bodies over nearly 5 years - @TransLucent_Org asked the question. So what does the data show regarding trans women using single-sex spaces in hospitals, public changing rooms and toilets? youtu.be/bwxnklUaP-Q

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Single Sex Spaces - What The Data Shows

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Despite having Gender Recognition Certificates, both Emily Brothers and I have been banned from attending the Labour National Women's Conference as delegates purely because we are transgender. Join us at our protest in Liverpool on Saturday, 26 September. youtu.be/BYFHO8F9Aqs

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The Labour Party's Day of Shame.

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If you believe in equality - real equality - please join me and Emily Brothers, who has also been banned, plus other Labour members and Councillors on the morning of Saturday, the 26th, at the entry gates of the Labour Party Women’s Conference. 9/10

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not black people. Not disabled people. Trans people. The 26th is the Labour Party's... Day of Shame. When you exclude any protected group, every protected group becomes more vulnerable. 8/10

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And why would a trans man sacrifice his Article 8 right to privacy just to stand? They couldn’t be identified anyway - Labour collects data by gender, not sex. So, on 26 September, an entire protected characteristic is effectively excluded. 7/10

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Labour is choosing to ignore that. Trans women are banned from being delegates. And by Labour’s logic, trans men are “women”. But trans men live in manhood. Those with a GRC are legally men. No Constituency Labour Party is going to elect a man to represent women’s lived experience. 6/10

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Because of the highly contentious Supreme Court judgment, Labour is treating trans women — including those with Gender Recognition Certificates - as men. Legally, a GRC affirms that trans women are women. 5/10

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Including award-winning feminists like myself - shortlisted at the National Diversity Awards 2025 alongside seven other women for my work in regard to endometriosis and #VAWG. 4/10

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Women of many different faiths and backgrounds. But one protected characteristic will be missing. Not because they didn’t stand to be a delegate. Not because they weren’t elected - but because they are banned. Trans women 3/10

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

On the 26th, the Labour Party will hold its National Women’s Conference in #Liverpool - a space that should represent the full diversity of womanhood. There will be black women, white women, straight women, gay women. 2/10

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

On Saturday, the 26th of September 2026, the political party that claims to champion “Equality” - the Labour Party - will, in reality, champion discrimination... against an entire (EA) protected characteristic. 1/10

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TransLucent @translucent.org.uk · 13/09/2026

Long-serving Labour Party member Emily Brothers has been banned as a Delegate to the Women’s Conference and excluded from reserved seats for women in National Policy Forum (NPF) elections because she is transgender. translucent.org.uk/latest-news/

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Recently, a GC lawyer named Akua told me on X to stay out of ladies' toilets. Fortunately, the places I frequent have other ideas.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 01/08/2026

The Gender Critical are trying to normalise the idea that trans + people are their birth sex. This is a cynical attempt to erase trans + people from existing. We must not let this happen. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary (enby) people are valid and exist too.

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I call on the new Labour Party executive to reinstate trans women to their full, equal standing, and I urge the Party to demonstrate true leadership by updating the Equality Act

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

12/12 The Labour Party must decide whether it will continue down a path that marginalises some of the most vulnerable people in society or finally choose equality, integrity, and courage.

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

11/12 In February, I initiated legal proceedings against the Labour Party. I am immensely grateful to the hundreds of supporters who have backed my CrowdJustice campaign to make this action possible, which is currently at a stalemate.

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

10/12 This trajectory has damaged the UK’s global reputation, contributing to our seismic drop in the ILGA Europe Rainbow Index - leading to political parties, and specifically Labour, being excluded from Pride events nationwide.

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

9/12 The government's own Equality Impact Assessment clearly states that the Code's updates will have 'a significant impact' on trans people and that the likely impacts on gender reassignment are 'negative, in relation to each of the 3 limbs of the Public Service Equality Duty’.

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

8/12 The Secretary of State for Women and Equalities has signed off the awful EHRC Code of Practice for which TransLucent are seeking a Judicial Review

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

7/12 We have seen life-saving access to puberty blockers blocked for vulnerable youth. At the same time, trans women are increasingly treated as pariahs both in the party and often in society generally because of a cruel culture war against a tiny, vulnerable minority.

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

6/12 In recent times, we have witnessed a severe regression: the abandonment of a Self-ID policy, the adoption of a deeply flawed Sex and Gender Data report authored by a gender-critical from Sex Matters, & the acceptance of the heavily criticised Cass Report, which completely fails trans children.

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

5/12 I would also like to thank all my CLP colleagues, every one of whom stood with me on the night of June 18th at our CLP Women’s Conference selection meeting. Transphobia remains epidemic in some areas of the Labour Party, reaching its highest levels.

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

4/12 I am also grateful to The Metro for publishing my story today - a story which, in part, has led unions, MPs, and even some CLPs (including my own) to say “no” to trans exclusion.

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

3/12 I am grateful to the trade unions who, having heard my representations, have chosen to boycott this event due to its complete lack of trans representation at the decision-making level.

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

2/12 This includes our exclusion from internal Officer positions and our barring as delegates from the National Women’s Conference.

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

STATEMENT: LABOUR PARTY NATIONAL WOMEN’S CONFERENCE For the past eight months, I have been challenging the Labour Party over the systematic discrimination faced by trans women in our Party. 1/12

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A truly fabulous day yesterday at Brighton Trans Pride, with Unite the Union, where, in the afternoon, I got to do a short speech on the main stage and even meet the mayor.

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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

THIS DESERVES REPOSTING… This was posted online quite a while ago, but the message remains powerful…

Written by a cisgender woman and ally in response to a cisgender man's hateful
comment on a transgender woman's post. "Transgender women existing makes me proud to be a woman. Because it means that being a woman must be something very special if someone born with all the privileges and supposed advantages of being male is not only willing to give that up, but go through so much pain and anguish, emotionally and physically, to achieve what some of us are born
with and take for granted every day."

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

TransLucent has served formal legal notice on the EHRC and the SoS for Women and Equalities, setting out our intention to seek a judicial review of the EHRC’s Draft Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations. Please donate and share. translucent.org.uk/translucent-...

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TransLucent Challenges the EHRC’s Code of Practice

TransLucent Challenges the EHRC’s Code of Practice - our Pre-Action Protocol letter seeking a Judicial Review.

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Currently in a Toronto Railway Station. This is one import from the Americas we definitely want!

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NevereverDave.bsky.social @nevereverdave.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

@stephpaton.bsky.social @stephrichards.bsky.social @profstephenwhittle.bsky.social @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social Interesting data on the turn of the NYT, stories, balance, attack, restriction of voices and the institutional changes they encompassed. bsky.app/profile/esqu...

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Sorry about the tech issues. I am away today, but I will sort something for you tomorrow.

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Breaking: Following a meeting with the EHRC on Friday, TransLucent agreed to write to them EHRC on Sunday to reconfirm some of our concerns. A small section of this letter is redacted.

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

TransLucent was in Parliament yesterday. I was happy to attend and give many MPs an update on the numerous FOI investigations, which I kicked off nearly five years ago. Data now exists that there are no issues with trans women using single sex spaces.

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Alex Sobel MP @alexsobel.co.uk · 10/06/2026

The I'm concerned that the EHRC guidance isn't clear about whether trans people and their partners can still have their relationships fully respected and recognised in law. The right to family life should not be up for debate. #TransRights #EHRC

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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Initially, I am seeking £75,000 (approx £26,000 is being transferred from my case against Labour). In total, the case could cost circa £250,000. It is important to note that I have “standing” - I am not a "third party" and have already been discriminated against. 9/10

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