➡️ The Minister for Women and Equalities has again said she plans to lay new EHRC guidance this week, in a media appearance. A reminder of how organisations like us, @transactualuk.bsky.social and @scottishtrans.bsky.social will be judging any new Code of Practice:

Our new trans GP self-advocacy guide is live! www.scottishtrans.org/gp-self-advo... The guide covers some general self-advocacy advice, as well as advice for issues related to trans healthcare, trans admin, and poor treatment and complaints.

There is one day to go until Pride in Our Community! We're so excited to see you there - It's going to be a day full of fun, community and connection. Come & join us on the 16th May from 11am-4pm, on the Leith Links (facing Duncan Place) in Edinburgh. 🏳️‍🌈 www.equality-network.org/pride-in-our...

We are concerned by the nature of the media attention focused on the election of Dr Q Manivannan to the Scottish Parliament at the recent election.

Pride in Our Community is only a few days away! Come and join us on the 16th May from 11am-4pm, on the Leith Links (facing Duncan Place) in Leith, Edinburgh. 🏳️‍🌈 Find out more about the event and read the access statement at: www.equality-network.org/pride-in-our...

Today, ILGA-Europe have released their annual Rainbow Index, which analyses the laws in 49 European countries, from Iceland to Azerbaijan. This year, the UK has remained at 22nd place, its lowest ever position, for the second year in a row. Find out more: rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org

The election is over, and a new parliament is setting up at Holyrood. Equality Network and Scottish Trans are looking forward to working with MSPs who wish to make Scotland a better place for LGBTQIA+ people, and all marginalised people, over the next five years.

We're really excited to have some wonderful local businesses/Scottish LGBTI+ Rainbow Mark holders, joining us to deliver workshops at Pride in Our Community. Come and join us on 16th May - 11am-4pm on the Leith Links (Duncan Place side) in Edinburgh! www.equality-network.org/pride-in-our...

There is one week to go until Pride in Our Community 2026, we're so excited to see you there! Come and join us on the 16th May from 11am-4pm, on the Leith Links (facing Duncan Place) in Leith, Edinburgh. 🏳️‍🌈 www.equality-network.org/pride-in-our... www.equality-network.org/pride-in-our...

We’re really excited to welcome you to Pride in Our Community 2026! Come and join us next weekend, 16th May from 11am to 4pm, on the Leith Links in Leith, Edinburgh. We’ll be on the side of the park facing Duncan Place! www.equality-network.org/pride-in-our...

The Scottish Parliament Election takes place today - 7th May 2026. You can vote between 7am and 10pm. It's really important that LGBTQIA+ people's voices are heard, so make sure that you get out and use your vote! 🏳️‍🌈

The Scottish Parliament Election takes place tomorrow, 7th May 2026. You can vote between 7am and 10pm. It's really important that LGBTQIA+ people's voices are heard, so make sure that you get out and use your vote! 🏳️‍🌈

📢 Workshop Announcements for Pride in Our Community! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 We're really excited to have Bollyqueer and Devilish Fashion joining us next weekend for Pride in Our Community 2026, 16th May - 11am-4pm on the Leith Links in Edinburgh!

📢 Workshop Announcements for Pride in Our Community! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 We're really excited to have Bollyqueer and Devilish Fashion joining us next weekend for Pride in Our Community 2026, 16th May - 11am-4pm on the Leith Links in Edinburgh!

📢LGBTQI+ people in detention need to be protected - Ask your MP to sign the joint letter with Rainbow Migration and push back. Contact your MP now: bit.ly/41YdoKr #NoPrideInDetention #EndLGBTQIDetention

Join us for an online LGBTI+ Awareness and Inclusion Training session on Tuesday 12th of May at 1pm - learn while you have your lunch! Tickets are £30 per person, all proceeds go back into funding our crucial training and campaigns work. Buy your tickets here: www.outsavvy.com/event/33396/...

Feel unsure about the 'right' language to use when talking about inclusion? Want to learn more about the current political context and how it affects the trans community? Want to be a better, more inclusive ally? www.outsavvy.com/event/33396/...

Join us for an online LGBTI+ Awareness and Inclusion Training session on Tuesday 12th of May at 1pm. Learn about inclusion, allyship and have a safe space to ask questions! Get your tickets here: www.outsavvy.com/event/33396/...

Pride in Our Community 2026 takes place in just a few weeks, and we are so excited to see you there! Join us on the 16th May, 11am-4pm on Leith Links in Leith, Edinburgh. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

The Scottish Parliament Election is coming up on the 7th May. Ahead of the election, we have created a summary of the relevant commitments and comments from the manifestos of all the parties currently projected to win seats. www.equality-network.org/our-work/pol...

Join us for an online LGBTI+ Awareness and Inclusion Training session on Tuesday 12th of May at 1pm - learn while you have your lunch! Tickets are £30 per person, all proceeds go back into funding our crucial training and campaigns work. Buy your tickets here: www.outsavvy.com/event/33396/...

Very important update for people on the Sandyford Adult Service waiting list - Please share widely to ensure that as many people are aware as possible!

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...

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! 🌈 Join us to volunteer at 'Pride in our Community' – 16th May, on the Leith Links in Edinburgh! We’re looking for friendly, enthusiastic & reliable volunteers to help make Pride in our Community 2026 a welcoming & inclusive space for ALL 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Contact: [email protected]

Porty Pride are running an access survey ahead of their 2026 event! They're looking to hear from d/Deaf and hard of hearing people about their experiences attending pride and ways that access could be improved. Respond here: portypride.com/deaf-survey 🏳️‍🌈

Our LGBTQIA+ sector manifesto is calling on all elected candidates to work to widen access and participation of LGBTQIA+ people in sport by reducing barriers. To read more about our ask to widen access to sport in our manifesto, please visit: www.equality-network.org/wp-content/u...

Last night, we coordinated the LGBTQIA+ Hustings in Glasgow ahead of the Scottish Parliament Elections on the 7th of May. We did this in partnership with LEAP Sports, LGBT Youth Scotland, and LGBT Health and Wellbeing.

In our Manifesto, we’re calling on all parties to ensure that all LGBTQIA+ people seeking asylum living in Scotland and those with refugee status (New Scots) have fair access to employment, travel and services. To read more of our manifesto, please visit: www.equality-network.org/wp-content/u...

i cannot imagine a future without trans people because without trans people there isn't a future

📢 We’re #hiring! Applications close soon - 10th April at 5pm! Equality Network is seeking a new Strategic Partnerships & Campaigns Coordinator, to work on LGBTQIA+ equality & human rights in Scotland w/ a specific focus on trans equality. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Find out more: www.equality-network.org/about/vacanc...

Only one day to go until the LGBTQIA+ Hustings! This is your chance to make sure our communities' voices are heard this election and to demonstrate the strength of our LGBTQIA+ communities to our potential future representatives. Your can get your tickets here: www.outsavvy.com/event/34229/...

Our voices should be heard this election.

We were so proud to celebrate two of our incredible partners, Lucas from Queer Disabled Edinburgh and Mahasin from exhale.group, on Saturday at the Christina Mckelvie Ball, where they were inaugural nominees for the Equality in Action Award.

In our manifesto, we are asking parties to commit to ensuring that LGBTQIA+ people are a key group of consideration when developing policy and practice related to improving living standards. To read more about our manifesto, visit: www.equality-network.org/wp-content/u...

Today is International Asexuality day! International Asexuality Day is marked every year on the 6th April, to educate about, celebrate, and show solidarity with, people who identify in the ace spectrum, including demisexual, grey-asexual and other ace identities.

One of our LGBTQIA+ election manifesto asks is for all parties to commit to ending conversion practices in their entirety through legislation and non-legislative support measures. www.equality-network.org/wp-content/u...

There's one week to go until the LGBTQIA+ Hustings for the upcoming Scottish Parliament Elections 🏳️‍🌈 Join us at the Social Hub Glasgow on 9th April at 7pm to ask questions of potential future elected reps & have them set out positions on issues that matter to us. www.outsavvy.com/event/34229/...

This Trans Day of Visibility, we want to make visible the ongoing barriers that trans and non-binary people in Scotland can face – and what we think decision-makers like local and national governments, parliament, service providers, and public bodies need to do to improve our lives.

We're excited to announce 'Pride in Our Community', in partnership with Disabled Queer Edinburgh & Exhale.group 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💓 This is a space for us to strengthen community, share in our collective joy & anger & demand better. This pride is for ALL. 16th May, 11am-4pm on Leith Links in Leith, Edinburgh

In the lead up to May’s election, we are asking all parties to commit to fixing our broken trans healthcare system in Scotland. To read more about our ask to fix trans healthcare in our manifesto, please visit: www.equality-network.org/wp-content/u...

Our campaigns are directly funded by donations and fundraisers from incredible volunteers - like Tara and Laurie, who have chosen to run for us during the Kilomathon in Edinburgh this weekend! Support their runs here ⬇️ www.justgiving.com/fundraising/... www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

📢 We’re hiring – Equality Network is seeking a new Strategic Partnerships and Campaigns Coordinator, to work on LGBTQIA+ equality and human rights in Scotland with a specific focus on trans equality. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Want to find out more? Visit our website: www.equality-network.org/about/vacanc...

Since the last election, we've experienced a rising anti-LGBTQIA+ climate in Scotland - particularly in relation to trans & non-binary people. We face an increasingly polarized world where our existence is repeatedly called into question, & our identities are used for political & media point scoring

Scotland has been working on ending conversion practices since the End Conversion Therapy petition was passed to the Parliament’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee in 2020. In January 2022, with Joe FitzPatrick as convener, the committee made strong recommendations for how to do this right.

LGBTQIA+ people across Scotland are living with increasingly hostile language and attacks on our lives, rights, and dignity. Malcolm Offord's 2018 "joke" only reinforces that Scottish politics has become a hostile place for LGBTQIA+ people, ethnic minorities and marginalised people.

Today we’re launching our LGBTQIA+ manifesto ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections on the 7th of May, with our partners: Equality Network, @scottishtrans.bsky.social, @leapsports.bsky.social, LGBT Youth Scotland & LGBT Health and Wellbeing. www.equality-network.org/wp-content/u...

Our Holyrood elections 2026 pledge will begin landing in candidate inboxes today. All responses (or lack of) will be recorded on our website. If you are a candidate you can also reach out to us directly with your pledge. You can find our full email here:

Murtaza* shared his story with us last year. Read it in full on our website: buff.ly/jQS9cMR He's a former service user and gay man from Pakistan. He spoke to us about his and his partners' experiences of claiming asylum in the UK. *Name changed to protect the identity of the interviewee

Abuse and violence can take many forms. It can include verbal abuse, threats, intimidation, blackmail, stalking, and the destruction of belongings. If you’re LGBT+ and you've experienced any kind of abuse, you can web chat, email or call us. 📞 0800 999 5428 📧 [email protected] 💻 galop.org.uk

'I know that my liberty is inextricably tied to the liberation of my trans siblings. We are stronger together, and that's why I'm supporting Equality Network and Scottish Trans for the Kilomathon!' Donate to Tara's fundraiser here : bit.ly/TaraRunEN