It is really important that as many people as possible get this information so that nobody gets missed out, so please share this as widely as you can.

We will do our best to keep you updated if Sandyford make any more information available, but please let us know if you have any issues with the validation or require further information and we will pass this along to Sandyford.

Please keep in mind that if you believe that your contact details are up to date, then you do not need to do anything until you are contacted, and to wait until June 1st to contact Sandyford if they haven’t got in touch with you.

We understand that many people will be worried about this, especially those who have already been waiting several years for an appointment at Sandyford with no clear indication of when they will be seen.

If you need additional support to respond, you can contact Sandyford who can advise you on available options.

If English is not your first language and you need support to respond, you can visit: www.sandyford.scot/other-languages/

Sandyford have informed us they will starting their adult waiting list validation exercise today. They will be contacting everyone on the adult waiting list over the next few weeks to check their details are correct & ask if they wish to remain on the waiting list. You need to respond within 14 days

Graphic with Blue to Purple gradient background. In a white box in the centre it says "Important information for people on the Sandyford Adult Gender Service waiting list" There is an illustration of a megaphone. At the bottom is the Scottish Trans logo.

Sandyford informed us on Friday that they intend to start a ‘waiting list validation’ from today. This means that they will be contacting everyone on the adult waiting list to check their details are correct and that they wish to remain on the list. They have already done this exercise for the young person’s waiting list.

It is extremely important that if your contact details have changed since joining the list that you contact Sandyford to update them. People will be contacted in stages, so you might not be contacted straight away. If your contact details are correct, you do not have to do anything until Sandyford contacts you.

Once you are contacted, you need to respond within 14 days. You will be sent a short questionnaire to fill in. Sandyford have said that reminders to respond will be sent. We are trying to get information from Sandyford about what will happen if someone does not respond. If you have not heard from Sandyford by 1st June, please get in touch with them.

📢 Important information for people on the Sandyford Adult Service waiting list.

Find out more: www.scottishtrans.org/sandyford-va...

Read the joint statement we have signed with over 100 organisations across the migrant and refugees, LGBTQIA+ and gender-based violence sectors, explaining why we believe it is vital that the BBC is responsible in its reporting on asylum claims in the UK: www.rainbowmigration.org.uk/news/we-stan...

We Can't Keep Waiting - Scottish Trans Fill in the survey below to add your name to our letters to Scottish health boards. As we are just currently writing to health boards […]

If you’d like to add your name to the letter, or the opportunity to join with other trans and non-binary people to make the case for change, sign up here:
www.scottishtrans.org/cantkeepwait...

We’ve already had quite a few sign-ups from your area, and we’ll soon be sending a letter to NHS Lanarkshire to ask them to meet with us and talk about the urgent need to do trans healthcare differently.

Are you on the Sandyford waiting list? Do you live in Lanarkshire?

Help us write to your health board and fix our broken trans healthcare system.

www.scottishtrans.org/cantkeepwait...

We Can't Keep Waiting - Scottish Trans Fill in the survey below to add your name to our letters to Scottish health boards. As we are just currently writing to health boards […]

If you’d like to add your name to the letter, or the opportunity to join with other trans and non-binary people to make the case for change, sign up here:
www.scottishtrans.org/cantkeepwait...

We’ve already had quite a few sign-ups from your area, and we’ll soon be sending a letter to NHS Tayside to ask them to meet with us and talk about the urgent need to do trans healthcare differently.

If you want to take some action today, you can: Fill in TransActual’s trans workers survey, to help them understand what’s going on for trans workers and make the urgent case for changes to the law so we can go to work in peace: https://form.typeform.com/to/uycRij58

If you are an ally who wants to take some action today, you can: • Sign NION Women’s “Not in Our Name” letter for cis women in support of trans people: https://notinourname.org.uk/ • Sign the Transparent pledge for parents who support their trans children, and their wider families and allies: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/transparent-action

Want to take action today?

You can:

- Fill in TransActual’s trans workers survey: form.typeform.com/to/uycRij58
- Sign NION Women’s “Not in Our Name” letter for cis women in support of trans people: notinourname.org.uk
- Sign the Transparent pledge: actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

In February, we presented an update at one of our events on what’s happened since the UK Supreme Court ruling, and what we do and don’t know. You can find it on our website at: scottishtrans.org/supreme-court-ruling-on-sex-in-the-equality-act/one-year-on

It will tell you: 1. What the case was about and what the Supreme Court decided 2. What the decision means (as far as we know) 3. What’s happened since 4. What could still happen It doesn’t cover everything – but we hope it will help

In February, we presented an update at one of our events on what’s happened since the UK Supreme Court ruling, and what we do and don’t know. You can read it here: www.scottishtrans.org/supreme-cour...

One year on from the UK Supreme Court’s ruling that “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 means “biological sex at birth”, trans people still find ourselves facing total uncertainty, as do the services and workplaces that want to include us. Banned from sports and associations like Girlguiding and the Women’s Institute. Banned from toilets that align with our gender identity in the Scottish Parliament. Being outed to colleagues at work, or being unable to access safe and inclusive facilities at school because we can no longer use toilets we have used for years. Uncertainty about how we will be treated when we need to access vital emergency services.

Some have said that the ruling brought ‘clarity’. It has done anything but. Instead, years of understanding of how the law worked has been turned on its head, and trans people face the prospect of navigating a world that just doesn’t work for us. Decades ago, the law, services, workplaces and society insisted on treating us as our “biological sex at birth”, with no respect for or recognition of who we truly are. It didn’t work. It meant we faced discrimination, inequality and breaches of our human rights. That’s why Courts decided it should change, and why the law was changed to provide us with recognition and protection from discrimination.

Has the Supreme Court ruling really turned the clock all the way back? Noone seems to know for sure. But what we do know is that trans people need to be able to access safe, appropriate and inclusive services like everyone else. We need to be able to go to work with privacy and dignity. We need to be recognised as who we truly are. Excluding and segregating us from others and never treating us in line with our gender identities can never achieve that. So, what do we need to put this right? As far as we can tell there are two options, depending on what the law means now (which is still unclear.)

If the law still allows for us to be properly included and recognised as who we truly are, then we need strong leadership from the UK Government that is clear that this is the case. Services and workplaces need to know they have that option, so that the huge number that want to include and support us can do so confidently. If the law doesn’t, we need Governments to take decisive action and change the law to make sure that Scotland and the UK return to being places where trans people can have our human rights protected and can live our lives with the same dignity as anyone else.

You can read our full statement on our website or in the graphics below. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Today marks one year on from the UK Supreme Court’s ruling that “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 means “biological sex at birth”. One year on, trans people still find ourselves facing total uncertainty, as do the services and workplaces that want to include us. ⬇️

We Can't Keep Waiting - Scottish Trans Fill in the survey below to add your name to our letters to Scottish health boards. As we are just currently writing to health boards […]

If you’d like to add your name to the letter, or the opportunity to join with other trans and non-binary people to make the case for change, sign up here:
www.scottishtrans.org/cantkeepwait...

We’ve already had quite a few sign-ups from your area, and we’ll soon be sending a letter to NHS Tayside to ask them to meet with us and talk about the urgent need to do trans healthcare differently.

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Are you on the Sandyford waiting list? Do you live in Tayside?

Help us write to your health board and fix our broken trans healthcare system.

www.scottishtrans.org/cantkeepwait...

Written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.

On top of almost a whole year of uncertainty and fear, and a sense of things going backwards. Our solidarity and strength to all 🩷

Read the Minister’s statement: questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

Read the EHRC’s update: www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

A graphic with a purple gradient background in white text that says "If exclusion really is what the law now requires, then the law should be fixed to work how it was always intended to." The Scottish Trans logo is at the bottom.

If exclusion really is what the law now requires, then the law should be fixed to work how it was always intended do.

For now, we will just have to keep waiting until the Code is laid in May to know exactly what the situation is.

He is now Deputy Prime Minister. We hope that today’s UK Labour Government is not about to lay a Code of Practice at Parliament that encourages exactly the segregation he spoke out against then. It wasn't right in 2004, and it wouldn’t be right now.

"For obvious reasons, many hon. Members fought to ensure that separate signs for minorities became a thing of the past in South Africa, and we did not engage in that fight in order to set up such prejudice over here.”

"That is not the Government's experience, and we therefore reject the new clause. The Government also believe that separate facilities for minority groups are objectionable, and we urge the House to reject the proposal."

David Lammy MP, way back in 2004 as a Minister in a Labour Government said: "The hon. Gentleman may well approach the issue on the basis of separate-but-equal treatment, but the Government entirely reject the implication of the new clause that transsexuals might set out to cause offence to others."

If the Supreme Court judgment really has resulted in laws that mean that trans people must be excluded and segregated from services and spaces across public life, this has clearly turned the intention of Parliament, when it originally passed those laws, on its head.

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Whatever the outcome, we will continue to make the case that trans people deserve the same access to safe, inclusive services as everyone else. We deserve to live free from discrimination, harassment and abuse, and to have our human rights protected.

It focused only on how to exclude and segregate us from services. In our view, it would have led to frequent and widespread breaches of our human rights.

A graphic with a purple gradient that says in white text "We don’t yet know what the updated Code says. The version that the EHRC consulted on last summer would have made trans people’s lives across Britain very much worse. It focused only on how to exclude and segregate us from services. In our view, it would have led to frequent and widespread breaches of our human rights." The Scottish Trans logo is at the bottom.

We don’t yet know what the updated Code says. The version that the EHRC consulted on last summer would have made trans people’s lives across Britain very much worse.