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30 September 2025 | News
When any pupil goes to school, they should be able to do so safely, have appropriate toilets and changing rooms they can use, and be listened to and have their identity respected. Changes made yesterday by the Scottish Government to their guidance on supporting transgender pupils in schools will make this much harder for trans children and young people than it was before.
1 September 2025 | News
Today, along with over 80 partner organisations, we are writing to MPs across the UK calling for robust Parliamentary scrutiny of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) forthcoming Code of Practice on Services, Public Functions and Associations.
7 August 2025 | News
The Scottish Government have today published an independent evaluation into funding they have provided to Gender Identity Clinics since 2022 that was intended to drive improvements.
16 June 2025 | News
The Equality and Human Rights Commission invited us to attend a Q&A event about their current consultation, but we decided not to attend as we didn’t see a way that taking part would lead to any kind of concrete, positive outcome for trans people.
4 June 2025 | News
Statement from Scottish LGBTI+ organisations about the EHRC’s consultation on their draft Code of Practice, and why we are being more cautious in engaging with it than we normally would be.
9 May 2025 | News
We have written to the Scottish Parliament’s Corporate Body following the announcement that they will ban trans women from women’s toilets and trans men from men’s toilets.
We think that this decision is rushed, will be unworkable, and will exclude trans people from participating in Scottish democracy.
6 May 2025 | News
Read our press release responding to the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government
12 December 2024 | News
Scottish Trans, along with several other LGBTQ+ organisations across the UK, have published a joint statement on the UK Government’s decision to make its ban on puberty blockers for trans young people indefinite.
5 November 2024 | News
We’re calling on the Scottish Government and NHS health boards to take urgent action following the publication by Public Health Scotland of damning national data on waiting times for specialist gender identity services for the first time.
4 September 2024 | News
Yesterday, Tuesday 3rd September, a new Gender Identity Healthcare Protocol was published for gender identity services in Scotland.
3 September 2024 | News
Today (3rd September) two important new documents about trans healthcare have been published, that we hope could really help to improve services.
13 August 2024 | News
On 13th August NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde announced that both their adult and young person’s gender service would stop taking self-referrals.
20 June 2024 | News
Today the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill passed Stage Three of the Scottish Parliament, meaning it will progress to royal assent and become law.
18 June 2024 | News
The week before last, new UK Government regulations changed the rules on what kinds of prescriptions can be used to obtain puberty blockers prescribed for people aged under 18 at pharmacies. The rules apply in England, Scotland and Wales. Read on to find out more.
18 April 2024 | News
Today, the Sandyford Young People’s Gender Service, based at NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, has announced that they will no longer be referring under 18s for endocrine treatments.
10 April 2024 | News
You may have seen that Dr. Hilary Cass has now published the final report of her review of NHS gender identity services for children and young people in England.
We’re still reading and digesting the report, but wanted to share some initial thoughts.
8 December 2023 | News
We are very disappointed that the Scottish Government has lost its court case against the UK Government’s use of a Section 35 order to block the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill from reaching royal assent.
16 November 2023 | News
LGBTI organisations welcome Scottish Government plans to improve the lives of non-binary people
18 September 2023 | News
At 10am tomorrow (Tuesday 19th September) the Scottish Government’s case for judicial review against the UK Government’s use of a Section 35 order to block the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill will begin.
9 August 2023 | News
The charity says that the Secretary of State’s block of an improved gender recognition process achieves nothing other than to “force trans men and women to continue to have to use an intrusive, difficult and expensive process simply to live their lives with the dignity we all deserve.”
10 July 2023 | News
This week is Non-binary awareness week, an international celebration of all people who don’t fully identify as women or men. To mark this week, we’ve put together 3 key things to know that you can share with family, friends, and colleagues.
30 June 2023 | News
The Scottish Government have been granted permission to take the UK Government’s decision to use section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 to block the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill to Judicial Review.
12 April 2023 | News
We welcome the Scottish Government’s decision to challenge the UK Government’s veto of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.
6 April 2023 | News
We will undoubtedly say more over the coming weeks and months, particularly if the UK Government decides to pursue this course of action. For now, these are just proposals – they would have to go through consultation, and the UK Parliament, to actually become changes to the law. But these are some initial thoughts on the suggestion that “sex” in the Equality Act should be defined as “biological sex”.
27 February 2023 | News
National LGBT+ organisations in Scotland have written today to each of the candidates standing to be next First Minister, to ask that they commit to honouring existing Scottish Government commitments to improve LGBT+ people’s lives, and to continue progressing LGBT+ equality.
16 February 2023 | News
We have received confirmation that the Sandyford Young Persons Gender Service will continue to see new patients and accept referrals to their waiting list.
27 January 2023 | News
17 January 2023 | News
We are bitterly disappointed at the UK Government’s decision to block the GRR Bill using Section 35 of the Scotland Act
21 December 2022 | News
Today, we hope that MSPs will vote on whether the Gender Recognition Reform Bill should become law.
19 December 2022 | News
Stage Three of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill starts tomorrow (Tuesday 20th December) with a debate and vote on amendments suggested by MSPs to the Bill.
7 December 2022 | News
Stage Three of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill will be starting on Tuesday December 20th, with the final vote on Wednesday December 21st.
23 November 2022 | News
Following on from last week’s session (First Amendments Passed on GRR at Stage Two) the Scottish Parliament’s Equalities, Human Rights, and Civil Justice Committee met yesterday to debate and vote on the remaining proposed amendments to the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.
16 November 2022 | News
Yesterday in a mammoth committee session, the Scottish Parliament’s Equalities, Human Rights, and Civil Justice Committee debated and voted on many of the 150+ amendments proposed by MSPs at Stage Two of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.
26 October 2022 | News
Tomorrow (Thursday 27th) we will be hosting an event outside Scottish Parliament at 12:30pm to show MSPs that there is public support for the Gender Recognition Reform Bill from a wide range of people, and to encourage them to vote for the Bill.
6 October 2022 | News
Scottish Trans, the trans equality project of LGBTI equality and human rights charity the Equality Network, has welcomed the Scottish Parliament’s Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee’s publication today of the Stage One report on the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.
7 September 2022 | News
We respond to the VICE World News Story that the new UK Prime Minister, Liz Truss, has sought legal advice to try and ‘pause or prevent’ reform of the Gender Recognition Act in Scotland.
13 July 2022 | News
Today, July 13th 2022, the Scottish Government has published its response to thirty-five recommendations from the Working Group on Non-binary Equality, as well as a report from the group explaining its recommendations.
31 March 2022 | News
“We take today to recognise the beauty and strength of our community, our creativity and bravery in the face of adversity. But we know that transphobia will not go away overnight, and that we as trans people and allies have to support each other and work together to get to the better world we know is coming.”
3 March 2022 | News
National LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex) organisations in Scotland have welcomed the Scottish Government’s Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, published today.
17 February 2022 | News
Court upholds Census guidance allowing trans men and women to self-identify their lived sex
25 January 2022 | News
Equality charity says that attempt to overturn well established guidance for trans men and trans women answering the Census is ‘misguided’ and will send a message that ‘they aren’t counted equally in Scotland’.
20 December 2021 | News
Today, the Scottish Government has published their three year strategic action framework for transforming gender identity services.
13 September 2021 | News
“I hope this finds you all well. It’s been quite some time since I’ve been in touch. Sorry for that. Life has been very hectic for me since we came down to South Africa to care for Karen’s mum…
2 September 2021 | News
Today, the Scottish Government has published its analysis of responses to the consultation on the draft Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, which ran from October 2019 – March 2020.
12 August 2021 | News
Today, Scottish Trans and LGBT Youth Scotland welcome the news that the Scottish Government have launched an updated resource for supporting transgender pupils in schools.
19 July 2021 | News
In March of this year, we were pleased to help an EU Citizen get their EU Settlement Scheme Settled Status updated to reflect their current name. Initially, the Home Office had insisted on using the person’s old name, as shown on their passport from their country of origin. We know that other people may be in the same situation. So we wanted to share a letter that you can send to the Home Office, to get them to change your Settled Status if it’s been issued using the name on your passport, so that it matches your identity.
8 July 2021 | News
On Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th July, the UK Supreme Court will be hearing the case of “R (on the application of Elan-Cane) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent)”. It will decide whether or not the UK Government policy of requiring all people who apply for a UK passport to declare themselves ‘male’ or ‘female’, and to be recorded this way on their passport, is discriminatory.
18 May 2021 | News
We know that some of you may be aware that St Peter’s Andrology Centre, the team that provides phalloplasty and metoidioplasty surgery (masculinising genital surgery), reached the end of their contract recently. This means that at the minute, there is no surgical provider across the UK for these procedures. Find out more about what’s going on and support you can access in the meantime if you are worried.
19 April 2021 | News
We’ve been hearing that some trans people are having problems registering for a covid vaccine, or are concerned that they have not been invited for their vaccines when they should have been. This is not happening to all trans people, and many have registered or received their invitations as normal. Read on to find more details, and let us know what’s been going on for you
23 March 2021 | News
Court rules that Scottish Government acted lawfully in including trans women in an equal opportunities measure to improve women’s representation on public boards
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Scottish Trans is the Equality Network project to improve gender identity and gender reassignment equality, rights and inclusion in Scotland. The Equality Network is a leading Scottish lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) equality and human rights charity.
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