Early on Saturday morning, so-called “trans activists” wrote a letter to their Labour Party MP (how brave!) They hand-delivered it along with a gift in the form of an entire toilet bowl, complete with lid and seat which reads “no trans segregation” in front of the Cambridge Labour Party offices on Norfolk Terrace. Moreover, the letter has postered-shut (albeit very gently) the front doors.
As is explained on the A0 sized letter, this was done to highlight the recent guidance from the so-called Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Under the negative procedure, the guidance is due to be automatically approved and come into effect on Tuesday. The guidance requires service providers to segregate trans people out of both male and female facilities, such as changing rooms and toilets, and groups such as sports teams and competitions. On the back of relentless transphobia in the British press, and the funding of hate groups by billionaires, the ostensibly independent EHRC doubled down on segregation in their guidance. This is despite the High Court ruling that the previously proposed guidance went too far in requiring segregation, and despite the Supreme Court stating in their 2025 ruling that trans people would not be stripped of any protection. (As a reminder, that case was about affirmative action for gender equality in Scottish parliament. Somehow the EHRC was ready to make the most strenuously anti-trans guidance less than two weeks afterwards.)
Labour has routinely responded to EHRC’s segregation agenda with wilful incompetence, apparently believing that they don’t make the law. The Labour Party, when questioned, continues to falsely claim that trans people are still “protected” by the equality act, although it’s not clear what from, followed by sticking their fingers in their ears.
The EHRC’s code of practice leads to enforced outing of trans people, many of whom have been using their preferred facilities uneventfully for years, and will now be expected to use separate facilities – “why is Dave suddenly using the disabled all the time??” This leads to a very real risk of physical violence against trans people, something that has only increased since the Supreme Court ruling in 2025.
Shamefully, the Labour Party MP for Cambridge, Daniel Zeichner, who was understandably not in the office on Saturday and therefore unavailable for comment, has not signed an EDM that opposes this abhorrent guidance, despite having signed many other EDMs . How stupendously respectful and supremely dignifying of him. In fact the whole community feels so respected and dignified that they just had to make this lovely art piece as an immense thank you gift for how much respect and dignity they’ve all received.
More importantly, blocking the EHRC guidance would help buy some time for Parliament to legislate to fix the clear incompatibly of the Equality Act 2010 and the Gender Recognition Act 2004, thereby restoring the original intent of both of those acts (as is clearly documented in parliamentary proceedings) and avoid an embarrassing, time-consuming, and costly return to Strasbourg. Crucially, only legislation can afford trans people real equality under law, outlaw segregation, and begin to rebuild some sincere dignity and trust. Whilst Parliament are at it they should take the opportunity to introduce self-ID, as Theresa May’s government was planning.
The text on poster contains snippets from the recent statement by the Lemkin Institute.
The full text on the poster reads:
The EHRC was not required to make its guidance as trans exclusionary as possible, though that is what it did.
The Lemkin Institute cannot read the new EHRC guidance as anything other than an attempt to make life harder for the trans and intersex communities in the UK and to erase them from public life as much as possible.
The guidance is based on the bizarre notion that services cease to be single-sex if trans people are allowed to use them. The entire Code of Practice makes absolutely no sense.
The debate around the use of toilets by trans people, both within the UK and elsewhere, has been centered around the fictitious danger supposedly caused by trans women towards cis women in enclosed spaces. The Lemkin Institute would like to remind everyone that this danger is invented and therefore does not require a state response that causes harm to trans and intersex people.
The message to the trans and intersex communities is clear: Cease to exist as a trans person unless you want to be accused of harassment for trying to use a public toilet that matches your identity. For service providers, the message becomes quite threatening: being inclusive of trans people might result in claims of sex discrimination by cis people. In both instances trans existence is criminalized, which is a very common component of genocidal processes.
Having no toilet will result in the exclusion of trans people from public life. Gender-neutral toilets that exist simply for trans people could forcibly “out” transgender people. In a workplace, for example, where a person is not known to be trans by their colleagues and suddenly begins exclusively using the gender-neutral toilet, they could be effectively outed and vulnerable to harassment.
The “third” (gender-neutral) toilet option is in no way harmless.
The EHRC seems to be under the impression that putting trans and intersex people into a third category and forcing them to use a separate toilet – or, as explained elsewhere in the Code of Practice, to compete on their own, separate sports teams – is acceptable. However, such policies can rightfully be described as the segregation of trans and intersex people. Othering a group of people and separating them from the rest of society is inherently disrespectful to that group’s human dignity.
This segregation extends to all public services which are gendered, which include hospitals, shelters, prisons, and swimming pools, for example. Trans people will find themselves struggling to access help or care as a result of their identities, should this Code of Practice be adopted.
The Lemkin Institute is disgusted by the use of equality law and the cloak of “women’s rights” to cause harm to the trans and intersex communities. The existence of trans and intersex people in no way threatens women’s rights. Harming the trans and intersex communities is in fact counterproductive to the furtherance of the feminist cause, as it is rooted in the normative imposition of a strict gender and sex binary, with all of the bigoted, ignorant, and narrow-minded assumptions that come with both.
The EHRC Code of Practice is not set in stone and needs to be approved by Parliament. As of this writing, 113 [now over 150] British Members of Parliament have signed an Early Day Motion calling for the EHRC Guidance to be rejected. The Lemkin Institute encourages the British public to write to their MPs asking them to sign the Early Day Motion to prevent this genocidal document from being adopted.
Trans and intersex people have always existed in our world. The true test of civilization is how a society chooses to treat them.