Transactual’s doing great work about terrible things right now. Its new report details how LGBTQ+ people are living in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, and it’s clear that the UK has become a terrifying and hostile environment for many of us. The report says:

• “some trans people are planning to flee to safer countries
• many expect to lose their jobs
• yet more fear being driven out of public spaces by a constant stream of humiliation
• people are telling us of panic attacks and being afraid now to go outside. There is a widespread feeling that this a breaking point; culmination of a decade of growing hatred and persecution
• there is frank discussion of suicidality directly linked to this ruling and the policies it will enable
• We are getting anxiety from gender non-conforming people about being policed at every turn ‘like it’s the 1970s’
• there is much sorrow and anger from cis women that this has been done in the name of “protecting” them from their sisters.”

It’s notable that the report also includes lots of contributions from cisgender people (ie, people who aren’t trans) such as partners and parents of trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people, and from women who are just appalled at the scapegoating and harm being done in their name.