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This site is written for transitioned women, and for those seeking to understand the systems that affect our safety, dignity, and access to support.

Transiness is a research-led project focused on safeguarding, access, and structural harms affecting transitioned women. It was established in 2012 as a peer-led space providing emotional support for trans and non-binary people, originally operating as a small community on Facebook. Over time, the project evolved in response to the needs of its members and the changing social context in which that support was being sought. As the community developed, it became clear that the majority of active participants were transitioned women, and that this group was experiencing increasing social, safeguarding, and service-access pressures. In response, Transiness narrowed its focus to supporting transitioned women and began reassessing what forms of support were most effective.

As part of this shift, Transiness moved away from social-media-based support and developed into a research-led and engagement-focused project. Alongside formal reports and safeguarding work, we publish thoughtful blogs and reflections, including schema-based analysis and lived sense-making, as an intentional effort to reclaim epistemic authority over our own experiences. Our work now centres on evidence-based analysis, safeguarding, and direct engagement, recognising that emotional support alone is insufficient to address the structural conditions affecting transitioned women.

Alongside reports and reflective writing, Transiness publishes in-depth analytical briefings examining systemic safeguarding failures affecting transitioned women. These documents set out evidence, mechanisms of harm, and service-design failures in detail, and are intended for professionals, commissioners, policymakers, and others engaged in safeguarding and service provision.

Transiness is run entirely by and for transitioned women — those who have completed a medical transition. We have no external funding, and all work published on this site is undertaken voluntarily.

Explore the site

  • Reports : Audit summaries, safeguarding assessments, and formal research outputs.
  • Sexual Violence : Analysis of sexual violence services, including access, inclusion, and pathway risks.
  • Domestic Violence : Information and analysis relating to domestic abuse services and safeguarding.
  • Healthcare : Evidence-led discussion of healthcare access, ethics, and policy impacts.
  • Current Issues : Current work, standards development, and direct engagement.

Recent Posts:

Report Sexual Violence

Transiness Report on Sexual Violence Services: England Audit Summary and Safeguarding Assessment

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A survivor-led audit of sexual violence services in England, examining whether transitioned women can safely access, navigate, and remain within support without forced disclosure, misclassification, or exclusion. This report focuses on real-world safeguarding, not stated intent, and highlights where current pathways fail those most at risk.

Blog

The Quiet Wisdom of Las Salinas

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A quiet village in the Dominican Republic shows what happens when societies expect change instead of fearing it. By allowing language and systems to track material reality, Las Salinas offers a powerful lesson in adaptive classification, institutional maturity, and harm prevention.

Cover image for “Finding Safety”: the word “Transiness” with a heart symbol above the title “Finding Safety – A Full Guide for Transitioned Women Affected by Sexual or Domestic Violence in the UK (2026)”, set above an image of two hands gently holding each other
Domestic Violence Guide Report Sexual Violence

Finding Safety: A Full Guide for Transitioned Women Affected by Sexual or Domestic Violence in the UK (2026)

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A practical, trauma-informed guide for transitioned women in the UK navigating sexual or domestic violence. This article explains where support exists, and how to protect your dignity and safety while seeking help.

Cover page of a report titled “Reducing Preventable Harm to Transitioned Women in 2026.” The Transiness logo appears at the top, with a purple heart forming the dot of the letter “i.” Below, the title is set in clear serif text above the word “Manifesto.” A subtitle reads: “A practical framework for reducing foreseeable harm through system redesign.” At the bottom of the page, a soft, monochrome image shows two hands of different skin tones resting gently together, symbolising care and protection.
Activism

Our Manifesto: Your Guide – Improving Outcomes for Transitioned Women in 2026

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In 2025, UK systems that once offered protection increasingly became sources of harm for transitioned women. Without repealing rights, policy and practice shifted in ways that reduced safety, access, and dignity. This manifesto sets out how those harms arose, and how they can be reduced through practical, proportionate system redesign.

A bronze Lady Justice statue on a desk surrounded by books, an open notebook, a coffee cup, and a sculpted brain, lit by warm daylight, suggesting reflection, ethics, and careful judgment.
Activism Advocacy Blog

When Ideology Governs Other People’s Bodies: Who Decides Whose Bodies Matter? Ideology, Care, and the Governance of Trans Lives

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When restriction is framed as care, and control is dressed up as safeguarding, it becomes harder to see the harm being done. This essay traces the logic behind gender-critical ideology - not to argue with it, but to expose how power, not evidence, ends up governing other people’s bodies.

Blog

Trans:gender · Refining a Word That Was Meant to Unite

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Leslie Feinburg's original intention behind it was honourable: it was to unite all people oppressed by cis-heteronormative gender constructs, people who do not neatly fit into the social constructs of what a “man” or a “woman” is supposed to be, under a single umbrella term. It was meant to bring us together, to unite everyone constrained or punished because they didn’t…

Blog

Moral Schemas and the Death of Empathy

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People really love holding schemas about themselves and others, of gender and of embodiment (and a lot more), and make constructs which may feel right, or justified, or protective, but by their very nature lack nuance and precision. They're often intellectualisations of feelings, superficially rational but functionally deficient.

Activism Advocacy

Analysis of “Searching Biological Sex Policy (Surrey and Sussex Police) (1248/2025)”: Transiness Special Report.

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By: Liora Wren (Transiness Admin) transinessadmin@protonmail.com Date: 5/10/25 Foreword: If this Sussex Police policy were framed so that cis women could be stripped and searched by men, the outrage would be deafening. Women’s groups, unions and legal advocates would flood the media and courts calling it degrading, unlawful, a clear violation of dignity and bodily autonomy. People would rightly say: “This…

A grayscale image of a nurse standing in silhouette, gazing out a hospital window. In the shadowy corridor behind her, faint figures loom, evoking a feeling of being watched or policed.
Activism Advocacy Blog Healthcare

Open letter response: The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) spectacularly fails trans women and people.

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When we first wrote to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) in February, we hoped for a response that would acknowledge the harm being done to trans patients and healthcare workers. The letter was clear, direct, and rooted in the NMC’s own Code of Conduct. It outlined how gender-critical activists were weaponising the nursing profession to dehumanise trans people: misgendering them…

A group of trans women seeking protection
Activism Advocacy

What does the April 2025 “Biological-Sex” Ruling Mean for Transitioned Women’s Advocacy?

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Recently, the UK Supreme Court delivered a decision that's caused considerable anxiety among trans women across the country. Headlines shouted that we’ve been "banned" from women’s toilets, hospital wards, and domestic violence refuges - but that's not exactly true, at least for the moment. On 16 April 2025, the Supreme Court ruled that the term "sex" in the Equality Act 2010…

Healthcare file marking trans status.
Blog Healthcare

The Quiet Codification of Control: Trans People and the Infrastructure of Forced Visibility

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This week, the UK government confirmed what many of us feared: a centralised, non-consensual tracking system for transgender people is not only underway - it is being rationalised as a matter of public safety. In response to a government-commissioned review led by Professor Alice Sullivan, the Health Secretary has instructed the NHS to halt any changes to NHS numbers and gender…

Satirical piece reflecting the poor quality of therapy often experienced by trans women.
Blog Satire

What good therapy looks like, and why you should know.

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In a world where people are taught what to feel and think about transitioned women, identifying good therapy is vital. So often you come across this phenomenon in therapy: you painstakingly explain what life is like and what issues you are having, and your therapist suddenly asks if you tell your lovers that you transitioned, or starts behaving like Ray Blanchard.…