Resistance

On 16th April 2025 the UK Supreme Court of Appeal delivered landmark ruling on the definition of “sex” in terms of the the 2010 Equality Act. Judges sided with the campaign group For Women Scotland, which brought a case against the Scottish government arguing that sex-based protections should only apply to people that are born female.

This meant that Trans Women and Trans Men were legally recognised only in their original genetic gender and not in their reassigned gender.

Immediately following this ruling the Equality & Human Rights Commission released guidelines effectively banning Trans Men and Women from their respective reassigned facilities. You can read what the had to say here.

My fear is that this is only the beginning of changes that will remove freedoms and rights of trans people throughout the UK. It will remove our dignity and our respect. It will make our freedom to travel almost imposable, it will render hospitals and other medical inpatient facilities off limits to all of us and it will set the progress made by Trans Men and Women back 30 or more years. 30 or more years that may never be regained. It will out many of us who live normal lives to though who would inflict physical and mental harm on us for no other reason that that of hatred and ignorance. Reasons that have harmed minority groups throughout history.

I have thought long and hard about how I will deal with this ruling and my decision has not been an easy one to reach. All my life I have been an advocate of living by the laws set by government, the courts and society even if you do not agree with them. But throughout history there are also examples of people who have stood up to in-just laws when they can not accept them in all good conscience and when those laws are immoral and made with poor understanding of the consequences.

While I will never claim to be in the same league as many of those historic figures I feel, like them I must stand against these rulings and changes. I therefore now go on record stating that I will continue to live my life as I have lived it up to now as a woman and not a Trans Woman to the best of my ability.

If this results in arrest, prosecution and even a criminal record and time in prison then so be it. At least I know that I have remained true to myself and my own beliefs and feelings.

If this results in my death because I refuse to be admitted to a “male” NHS ward or felicity then I will die knowing I do the right thing by myself.

Time and history will judge me and my fellow trans friends.