Trans Legal Clinic
Trans Legal Clinic
Trans Legal Clinic
The Trans Legal Clinic is a grassroots, trans-led legal clinic providing free, high-quality legal help to trans and non-binary people across the UK. We exist because trans people are systematically denied access to justice.
Our work is grounded in community need and lived experience. We support people facing homelessness, gender-based violence, discrimination, and legal erasure, through our gender recognition service, taking on the cases others won’t.
Every aspect of our clinic is shaped by and for trans people, with an approach rooted in care, solidarity, and resistance. We’re volunteer-powered, survivor-informed, and uncompromising in our values. In a system designed to exclude us, we’re building the legal infrastructure our community needs to survive, fight back and make our voices heard.
Who we are
Who we serve
Trans* people are over-policed, under-protected, and routinely excluded from legal support. Our community faces discrimination at work, denial of healthcare, housing insecurity, gender-based and state violence. What allows this culture of injustice prevail is the vast disparity in access to justice among Trans* people, particularly Trans* women, working-class, Black/racialised, sex workers, disabled and neurodivergent Trans* people, those experiencing homelessness, and those without access to gender-affirming healthcare. Trans* people have no collective voice in the legal domain, we exist to close that gap.
How we serve
Our core services:
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Discrimination across goods, services, education, housing, and public services
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Gender-based Violence including hate crime, domestic and sexual violence, and state violence
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Housing and Homelessness including homelessness and illegal/discriminatory evictions
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Gender Recognition & Access to Healthcare – support navigating the complex legal maze of obtaining gender recognition. From deed polls, updating passport/drivers license & updating gender markers to supporting GP/NHS Complaints about access to healthcare.
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Strategic Litigation Service using the law as a tool for structural change, we take on impact-driven cases that challenge discriminatory policies, expose systemic failures, and create legal precedents to expand trans rights and protections.
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We are often able to resolve our clients concerns without ever needing to go to court. Where
this is not possible.we utilise Equality Act, Public Law & Human Rights tools to ensure that
equality before the law includes us.