…It’s About Erasure
As the EHRC prepares to publish its new guidance that seeks to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces, a lot of people still think this is “just” about toilets or changing rooms. It really isn’t – that’s only the beginning. What’s really happening is a calculated, multi-step campaign to remove trans people from public life: administratively, socially, legally, and statistically.
Let’s talk about what comes next, because it’s already underway.
Step One: Redefine ‘Sex’
The Supreme Court has ruled that ‘sex’ in the Equality Act means biological sex, not gender.
This gives the EHRC the green light to encourage exclusion, even from basic services, on that basis.
But here’s the catch: Once you start policing access based on “biological sex”… how do you prove it?
Step Two: Surveillance and Forced Disclosure
They want to exclude transgender people – that means ‘marking’ them, through data control.
To enforce these new rules, trans people must become visible to the state in new, harmful ways.
That means:
- Having to disclose private medical history to access services.
- Employers, hospitals, schools being pressured to record and report “true” sex.
- ID and database systems being redesigned to flag or override affirmed gender.
This isn’t just theoretical, we’ve already seen attempts to:
- Push for sex-at-birth on ID instead of lived gender.
- Remove or manipulate trans data from the Census.
- Suggest GRCs (Gender Recognition Certificates) should be abolished or made meaningless.
They want to define transgender people out of legal existence.
Step Three: Data Erasure
If trans people don’t exist in data – do they ‘matter enough’ to have rights & dignity?
If they can’t stop trans people from existing, they’ll stop counting them.
And if they’re not counted? No protection, no resources – erasure.
This is how they:
- Deny trans healthcare funding.
- Write gender non conforming people out of safeguarding policies.
- Exclude them from equality impact assessments.
- Claim numbers are “too few” to matter.
Erasure through omission. Dehumanisation by spreadsheet.
Why This Matters to Everyone
This is not just a trans issue. When the government can dictate whose identity is legally valid (whose existence is “real”), they can do it to anyone. Disabled people. immigrants. Intersex folks. Survivors of violence. Anyone who doesn’t fit.
This is about state power over personhood.
What We Can Do
This is bleak – but not unchallengeable.
We need to:
Keep telling the truth: trans people exist, they matter, and they aren’t going anywhere.
Prepare for the EHRC guidance and respond fast.
Speak out about ID, data, and privacy … now, before they move on it.
Push for inclusive ID and data laws.
Support organisations fighting this; legally, politically, socially.
If you’re not transgender and reading this: YOUR VOICE IS POWERFUL
Speak up. Push back. Don’t wait for this to knock on your own door.
Because one day, it will.
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