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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 20h

The march is reaching the end, with the coffin being delivered to the community centre.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 20h

Protest chants as the march passes Exeter Central station, turning into Richmond Road.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 21h

The front of the march ready to set off

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 21h

The organiser finishes the speeches by thanking everyone who came to Trans Pride Exeter, and laying out the march formation to the community hub.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 21h

The march is preparing to move off to the end, whilst an NEU (National Education Union) representative delivers a speech about trans rights in schools.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 21h

The speech finishes with the organiser demanding people to write a letter to their MPs.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 21h

An organiser of Trans Pride Plymouth, talks about the threat of lobbyists from America etc and how things are rapidly worsening, for example GPs in Plymouth withdrawing existing shared care agreements. She pleads for everyone at this event to apply consistent pressure.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 21h

The 4th speaker (and performer!), a disabled non binary person, talks about experiences of being othered by the EHRC guidance and other UK law. They also speak about insufficient disabled toilets - hence the EHRC Guidance being unworkable - before moving onto a poem about it.

Speaker #4 talking about their experiences with the EHRC guidance othering them

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 21h

The next performance is a poem, encouraging the audience to keep their hearts open in these locked out times.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 21h

The third speech also discusses the real world impact of the institutional transphobia in the UK - leading to even close ones taking their own lives. She finished by saying that this is the fight of our generation, in comparison with Stonewall and marriage equality.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 21h

After a brief second speech by Alex, another song is performed - "Our freedom is bound together"

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 22h

The first performance of Trans Pride Exeter 2026 is underway, a song about the journey being long; metaphorically about the long fight that will likely be needed to restore trans rights in the UK.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 22h

The first speaker, one of the organisers, makes a speech about her own experiences with being trans in the UK at present. She discusses how all factors have worsened, from the EHRC guidance to the healthcare situation for adults.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 22h

"Trans rights are human rights" protest chants

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 22h

As the back of the crowd sings to never give up, the RIP Equality coffin holders chant "Not the court, not the state, we decide our own fate"

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 22h

As the march progresses through Princesshay, the front and back of the protest are chanting different things simultaneously.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 22h

Some of the protesters have a trans rights coffin, representing the death of trans rights in the UK.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 22h

One of the organisers makes a speech as to why the protest starts at Laurels GIC - the waitlist is measured in decades.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 22h

"Save lives" "Train GPs" Attached with a portrait of Sigrid Taylor from Remembering Our Dead

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 22h

The turnout is still growing and is absolutely massive now, easily in the hundreds

Several hundred people at least gathering at Dixs Field

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 22h

The organisers are currently handing out chant sheets.

We're here, we're queer, We will not piss in fear (or we shall not live in fear)

We will not be quiet! Stonewall was a riot! We will not play nice! We're fighting for our lives!

We piss where we like! We're Trannies, Fags and Dykes!

We're hot! We're fun!

We're gonna Trans Your Mum! We're here! We're Glad! We're gonna Trans Your Dad!

Not the courts, Not the State! We decide our own Fate!

C: Trans Lives Are Under Attack. What do we do?

R: Stand UP! Fight BACK!

C: When I say Trans, You Say JOY!:

C: Trans

R: Joy

C: When i say Trans, you say POWER

C:Tans

R: Power

TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS!

HRT IS HEALTHCARE!

PROTECT TRANS YOUTH!/PROTECT TRANS KIDS!

C: one struggle one fight

R: palestine & trans rights

C; one struggle one fight

R; women's rights and trans rights

C: one struggle one fight

R; antiracism and trans rights

C: one struggle one fight

R: disabled rights and trans rights

Trans women are women, Trans men are men, Non-binary people are non-binary.

C: What do we want?

R: Trans rights

C: When do we want them?

R: Now

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 22h

Dozens more people are still showing up with every passing minute, further growing the crowd of people on Dixs Field

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 23h

The turnout seems closer to 100 on Dixs Field

The current turnout as of 11:22, note that this only shows the front

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 23h

🔴 LIVE - TRANS PRIDE EXETER 2026 Today we are reporting on Trans Pride Exeter 2026. The gathering doesn't even officially begin until 11:30, but there are already 50+ people at Dixs Field!

Trans Pride Exeter Banner - Trans people wait 10+ years for appointments

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 28/09/2026

NEW EPISODE! Moments of Euphoria In our 165th episode Flint interviews Sapling from @taplingzines.bsky.social about him and his husbands art book and Ashleigh informs about BASHBACK and PondHoppin', plus Losers Corner returns! Listen here> whatthetrans.com/ep165/

Thumbnail cover for episode 165 of WhatTheTrans, episode title; moments of Euphoria: With Sapling of Tapling Zines. The background is textured painted purple with dark and light purple shades, the foreground has a pile of magazines and on the top is the cover artwork for Moments of Euphoria was that designed by Artiodaktyl for Tapling Zines as part of their Kickstarter. The cover itself is of a friend group looking like thehre taking a selfie on a day out, surrouded bu a very trans scrapbook style with the title moments of euphoria in the top left corner in similar scrapbook font

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 22/09/2026

EPISODE 164: Pees & Queues On our episode, Flint demonstrates their intrepidity while Ashleigh largely stays home. We cover: - Flint was on the ground for the mass lobby & spoke to some people who’d gone to London to speak to MPs. - A quick interlude from Malta Pride. whatthetrans.com/ep164/

Thumbnail of Episode 164, depicting the Houses of Parliament, a queue and a protest placard of "Farewell to Britain's standing on LGBTQ+ rights"

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19/09/2026

We have finished editing all the pictures from this. Good night.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19/09/2026

We have reached EDEN, where the march ends.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19/09/2026

The protest chants reflect how abysmal the weather is

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19/09/2026

"You attack one of us, you attack all of us"

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19/09/2026

Adam, the last speaker, says that we will now begin the walk to Eden.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19/09/2026

One speaker's new birth certificate that says Sex: Female arrived this morning, and she emphasises that all laws in the UK now recognise her as female... ... aside from the EA2010

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19/09/2026

A Leicestershire based trans organisation, Cool 2b Trans, arrived at the Trans Pride after getting stuck in traffic.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19/09/2026

A GATE Midlands representative is speaking about what their organisation does. (GATE is short for Guiders Against Trans Exclusion, or @guidersfortrans.bsky.social)

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19/09/2026

The next speaker talks about how last time Trans Pride Birmingham was almost made to leave the space!

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19/09/2026

The attendance has increased gradually as the demonstration continues with more speakers.

The attendance of trans pride Birmingham

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19/09/2026

The speech ends with pro-Palestine and pro trans rights protest chants.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19/09/2026

The 6th speaker talks about socialism in Cuba, and its relations to trans rights in Cuba.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19/09/2026

His speech ends by wishing the crowd gender euphoria, over and over.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19/09/2026

The 5th speaker addresses transmasculine folk in his speech. "Your masculinity is not fragile" "Your masculinity does not change"

The 5th speaker speaking into the microphone

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19/09/2026

The speech ends with chants of "we are enough"

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19/09/2026

The third speaker discusses the hecklings that occurred at Trans Pride Birmingham 2025, before going on to discuss how all of us have complex lives

The third speaker speaks about her experiences

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