Trans Legal Clinic
Trans Legal Clinic
Trans Legal Clinic
TRANS LEGAL FUND
In response to the UK Supreme Court ruling in For Women Scotland LTD v the Scottish Ministers, the Trans Legal Clinic has launched the Trans Legal Fund, a vital community resource created to build the legal infrastructure we need to protect and defend trans* lives, dignity, and rights in the UK. We work on the front lines of the fight for justice, offering free and accessible advice, support, direct casework and assistance to trans people facing discrimination, violence, and exclusion. We want to bring a challenge in the European Court of Human Rights against the ruling of the Supreme Court but this takes time and money and our focus in bringing this challenge and in everything we do has always been on direct access to justice in the individual lives of ordinary* trans and non-binary people. (by ordinary we mean not rich, privileged and powerful) Any challenge against the ruling will need to start there. with us. In our lives.
Our clinic is trans-led, 100% volunteer organisation providing advocacy services to trans* and non-binary people who are interacting with legal infrastructure in England and Wales as a result of their gender identity. Our team of volunteers and legal practitioners, come together toward one common goal; Trans* Liberation. Our work spans four core areas:
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Our Discrimination Service; protecting access to essential services like healthcare,
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Our Gender-based Violence Service; protecting trans survivors of hate crime, domestic abuse, sexual violence, and police brutality.
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Housing and Homelessness Service; with 1/4 trans & non-binary people experiencing homelessness in their lifetimes
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Our Gender Recognition Service; supporting individuals through the complex legal processes surrounding social transition; deed polls, change of name, updating documents, obtaining a Gender Recognition Certificate
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THE RULING
The UK Supreme Court’s ruling in For Women Scotland LTD v the Scottish Ministers has created dangerous uncertainty for some of the most marginalised members of the trans* community. By limiting the definition of “woman” to sex assigned at birth in certain legal contexts, the ruling risks undermining key protections under the Equality Act 2010 protections that many of our clients rely on to survive discrimination, violence, and exclusion.
While the judgement does not strip away all rights from trans* women, it opens the door to selective recognition, where only those who "pass" as having been assigned female at birth are afforded protection. This is an impossible and deeply unjust standard — one that punishes the most visibly trans* people, and by extension, the most vulnerable: working-class trans* women, Black and racialised trans* people, sex workers, disabled and neurodivergent trans* people, those experiencing homelessness, and those without access to gender-affirming healthcare.
At the Trans Legal Clinic, these are our clients. These are the people we serve every day — trans* people who have been turned away from hospitals, harassed in public spaces, fired from their jobs for who they are, or brutalised by police. We know that legal protection is often the only shield they have, and this ruling chips away at that shield. Without immediate action, the judgement will continue to be weaponised to deny trans* people access to safety, dignity, and justice.