A detailed analytical briefing examining systemic safeguarding and protection pathway failures affecting transitioned women who experience domestic and sexual violence. The analysis focuses on service design, referral pathways, and the consequences of prioritising administrative categorisation over survivor need.
A survivor-led audit of sexual violence services in England, examining whether transitioned women can safely access, navigate, and remain within support without forced disclosure, misclassification, or exclusion. This report focuses on real-world safeguarding, not stated intent, and highlights where current pathways fail those most at risk.
A quiet village in the Dominican Republic shows what happens when societies expect change instead of fearing it. By allowing language and systems to track material reality, Las Salinas offers a powerful lesson in adaptive classification, institutional maturity, and harm prevention.
A practical, trauma-informed guide for transitioned women in the UK navigating sexual or domestic violence. This article explains where support exists, and how to protect your dignity and safety while seeking help.
In 2025, UK systems that once offered protection increasingly became sources of harm for transitioned women. Without repealing rights, policy and practice shifted in ways that reduced safety, access, and dignity. This manifesto sets out how those harms arose, and how they can be reduced through practical, proportionate system redesign.
When restriction is framed as care, and control is dressed up as safeguarding, it becomes harder to see the harm being done. This essay traces the logic behind gender-critical ideology – not to argue with it, but to expose how power, not evidence, ends up governing other people’s bodies.
Leslie Feinburg’s original intention behind it was honourable: it was to unite all people oppressed by cis-heteronormative gender constructs, people who do not neatly fit into the social constructs of what a “man” or a “woman” is supposed to be, under a single umbrella term. It was meant to bring us together, to unite everyone constrained or punished because they didn’t neatly fit the social constraints of how to be men or women.
People really love holding schemas about themselves and others, of gender and of embodiment (and a lot more), and make constructs which may feel right, or justified, or protective, but by their very nature lack nuance and precision. They’re often intellectualisations of feelings, superficially rational but functionally deficient.
By: Liora Wren (Transiness Admin) transinessadmin@protonmail.com Date: 5/10/25 Foreword: If this Sussex Police policy were framed so that cis women could be stripped and searched by men, the outrage would be deafening. Women’s groups, unions… Analysis of “Searching Biological Sex Policy (Surrey and Sussex Police) (1248/2025)”: Transiness Special Report.
When we first wrote to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) in February, we hoped for a response that would acknowledge the harm being done to trans patients and healthcare workers. The letter was clear,… Open letter response: The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) spectacularly fails trans women and people.
Recently, the UK Supreme Court delivered a decision that’s caused considerable anxiety among trans women across the country. Headlines shouted that we’ve been “banned” from women’s toilets, hospital wards, and domestic violence refuges – but… What does the April 2025 “Biological-Sex” Ruling Mean for Transitioned Women’s Advocacy?
This week, the UK government confirmed what many of us feared: a centralised, non-consensual tracking system for transgender people is not only underway – it is being rationalised as a matter of public safety. In… The Quiet Codification of Control: Trans People and the Infrastructure of Forced Visibility