Our Demands

There is no trans liberation without class liberation. Trans people are disproportionately affected by issues with housing, education and employment. We are 66% more likely to need benefits. Domestic labour disproportionately falls on trans women, as it does on all women. As such, we can never truly be free without ending capitalism and building a socialist society that provides for all.

We, the Trans Liberation Group, make the following demands of Your Party to ensure that it is truly a party for trans liberation.

Demand No. 0: A PARTY FOR EVERYONE

• Require all elected party representatives to be bound by the programme democratically agreed by the membership, which will have trans liberation at its core. Ensure that elected representatives are held accountable to the membership and censure and remove any representatives who break from this programme (including promoting transphobic bigotry or discrimination).
• Create a transparent disciplinary process for all members to prevent bigotry and discrimination, overseen by a democratically-elected committee including representation for trans people. This should be guided by the principles of transformative justice, with efforts to resolve issues through mediation and education where possible.
• Ensure that trans people are represented through a democratic structure in the party with a right to be consulted on all decisions specifically impacting trans people - nothing about us without us!
• Ensure party structures allow for the membership to have full democratic control over the party’s policies, agenda and who its representatives are.
• Create a systematic political education scheme which is compulsory for all elected representatives, which includes education about trans liberation.

Demand No. 1: LEGALISE TRANS EXISTENCE

• Amend the Equality Act 2010 to undo the damage caused by the Supreme Court ruling of 16th April 2025 by making it clear “sex” refers to a person's current lived sex and adding gender identity as a protected characteristic. Ensure that “gender-critical” beliefs cannot be treated as protected beliefs.
• Enshrine the right to self-identification of gender, including non-binary gender, for all purposes.
• Abolish gender markers from official documentation such as passports.
• Reject plans for the introduction of ID cards as an authoritarian imposition that will be disproportionately used to police and harass trans people, migrants, and people of colour.
• Scrap the Equality and Human Rights Commission - it is broken and not fit for purpose and should be replaced with an equalities body that actually protects human rights.
• Reject any attempts to restrict trans people’s rights to access public bathrooms and other gendered spaces, which we have freely exercised for decades. Trans people have a right to access gendered spaces by self-ID (including prisons).
• End the testing of hormone levels in women athletes, which has led to the exclusion of gender non-conforming women. Transgender women have been competing in women's sports for many years. Regardless of their success, the question of their participation should be looked at fairly. Transphobia and misogyny have no place in sport. No athlete should be excluded on the grounds of being transgender.

Demand No. 2: REFORM THE BROKEN SYSTEM

• Completely overhaul the Relationship and Sex Education guidance for schools. Children should be aware of all different types of people and their own options. Sex education should be queer and trans inclusive. Gender-critical perspectives should not be taught and trans people should not be framed as a “debate”.
• Institute a complete ban on all types of conversion therapy, including trans conversion therapy. Support for people questioning their gender should be affirmative of their desires while giving space for people to explore their feelings.
• Enshrine in UK Law the right to privacy over your assigned gender at birth and trans status, and oppose all attempts to leave the ECHR, which guarantees the right to respect for your private and family life, including confidentiality around your assigned gender at birth under Article 8.
• Introduce a new law abolishing all kinds of “trans panic” legal defences. Legally enshrine the right to not have to disclose your assigned gender at birth or trans status to potential sexual partners and reverse all convictions made of trans people on the basis of “deception” for not disclosing their trans status.
• Decriminalise all sex work (which trans people are disproportionately involved in), reversing all criminal and administrative penalties on sex workers. Regulate sex workers’ workplaces through employment law, allowing them to self-organise and form trade unions.
• Reverse the cuts to PIP and overhaul the system through a process which puts disabled people at the heart of decision making.

Demand No. 3: HEALTHCARE THAT WORKS

• End the discriminatory puberty blocker ban - a young trans person should not have to undergo the misery of the wrong puberty.
• Make HRT a right for all adult people with no legal restrictions, available over the counter on an informed consent basis.
• Abolish the GIC system and desegregate trans healthcare - monitoring and referral for specialist treatment should be done by primary care providers.
• Expand the range of gender affirming surgeries accessible on the NHS.
• Legally enshrine the right to transition - where a person has Gillick competence there should be no interference with their transition. This includes trans children, who should not require parental consent to transition.
• Legally guarantee bodily autonomy for all. A human being should have the ultimate say over what goes on in their own body. This includes a complete decriminalisation of abortion based on the principle “as early as possible, as late as necessary”.
• End all “corrective” surgery on intersex children. Nobody should be subject to medically unnecessary surgery without the capacity to consent.
• Fund fertility treatment for all who need it, it should be a legal right and not restricted by a lack of money.
• Expand mental health provision, provide support on demand and for as long as needed, given how disproportionately trans people are affected by poor mental health due to the discrimination we face.