The correspondence shows Sex Matters, LGB Alliance and Transgender Trend manoeuvring their way into government as so-called “stakeholders” on trans policy, despite lacking any medical expertise and spreading narratives that misrepresent science, misuse human rights law, and dismiss the lived realities of trans people.
It’s not just emails or letters. The documents show meetings arranged, consultations granted, suicide statistics disputed, and legal rulings twisted into tools to attack trans healthcare. While trans people themselves were left out of the room, ministers were treating hostile lobby groups as if they spoke for the public.
There’s much more but the DHSC is trying to hide it behind freedom of information exemptions.
This is not neutral “stakeholder engagement”. It is collusion with groups intent on dismantling the rights of others. And it is happening in secret — behind FOI exemptions, closed consultations, and redactions — while trans communities are left paying the price with their lives.