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.
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?
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is entrusted with upholding the integrity and professionalism of nursing and midwifery in the UK. Yet, recent events have exposed a disturbing trend: the weaponisation of the nursing profession by gender-critical activists who are actively harming trans people – both patients and fellow healthcare professionals.