Insight from Dr Helen Webberley

Forced detransition: genocide and elimination policy Forced detransition is the coerced removal of gender-affirming care, legal recognition, and social support from trans people, typically through legislation or institutional policy. When pursued…

Glamour UK's trans women cover wins Cover of the Year Glamour UK's Women of the Year cover featuring nine trans women won Cover of the Year at the Professional Publishing Association Awards in June 2026. The cover, released in October 2025, was part of…

What makes a woman? Revisiting a question that still matters Being a woman is an innate sense of identity, not a biological checklist. Defining womanhood through anatomy excludes many cisgender women too: those born without a uterus, those who have had…

Trans safety, violence and the reality of daily fear Trans people experience significantly higher rates of harassment, physical violence, hate crimes, and safety fears than the general population. The evidence is consistent across countries and…

Treating trans patients in NHS hospitals: what to know Trans patients in NHS hospitals are protected from discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 through the protected characteristic of gender reassignment. That has not changed. Trans women should be…

Trans athletes in women's sport: what the evidence shows Research consistently shows that trans women who have undergone hormone therapy do not retain a straightforward or insurmountable performance advantage over cisgender women. Testosterone levels in…

How anti-trans content dominates online platforms Hostile, debate-framing videos about trans identity and gender-affirming care consistently outperform affirming content on YouTube and major social platforms because algorithms reward conflict and…

This is your life: being visible and proud as a trans person Being trans is not a footnote to your life. Pride does not require you to have reached a particular stage, passed any threshold, or earned the right through suffering. Visibility, showing up as…

Angela Davis: gender diversity is everyone's fight Angela Y Davis argues that refusing to acknowledge the full diversity of gender, cisgender, transgender, gender fluid, and gender non-conforming, disarms everyone. The rigid binary norm that harms…

Trans, black, tall, short - they are just adjectives to the word 'Woman' Trans women are women, and the refusal to recognise them as such follows a well-documented historical pattern. Angela Y Davis has shown how Black women were once excluded from "real womanhood" for…

The government's own data shows trans women are at risk The UK government's own Equality Impact Assessment acknowledges that forcing trans women into men's spaces creates a disproportionate risk of violence and sexual assault, and increases harassment of…

So can we ask or not??!! The government's draft guidance on single-sex spaces contains a direct contradiction: it states that members of the public do not have the right to challenge one another on sex, then advises that…