March with us at London Trans+ Pride on July 25th 2026

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This piece was written by a Year 3 Trainee

London Trans+ Pride was founded in 2019 by a collective group of trans+ people, in part due to the rising tide of transphobia in the UK and across the world.

In 2019, around 1500 people attended the march. Over the following years, attendance grew, with 20,000 attending in 2022 and 60,000 in 2024. The London Trans+ Pride march in 2025 was attended by over 100,000 people, making it the biggest trans pride march ever held worldwide. However, the march was not reported in the UK local or national news. In media terms it was entirely invisible.

I was at the march in 2025 and it wasn’t invisible.

We stopped the buses and disrupted the shoppers on Oxford Street. We blew whistles and banged drums and waved placards and shouted and sang. We marched to Parliament and sat in the square, taking up space.

Amongst other issues, London Trans+ Pride campaigns for legal recognition of non-binary identities, a ban on intersex genital mutilation, a ban on trans conversion therapy, access to better trans+ healthcare, and equality of legal rights for trans+ people.

Unlike the corporate sponsored yearly Pride in London event, London Trans+ Pride is a community-led grassroots project.

London Trans+ Pride refuses corporate sponsorship in order to remain independent. Many of the corporate sponsors of Pride in London routinely discriminate against LGBTQ+ people the rest of the year, but are happy to sponsor the event in order to cash in on the so-called ‘pink pound’. London Trans+ Pride rejects this hypocrisy. The march is a protest, not a party. Its main purpose is to emphasise that we exist and to show the world that we resist discrimination.

Even a cursory glance at recent headlines around trans issues will show you that the LGBTQ+ folk who need your allyship most right now are the trans+ folk. Trans+ means trans, non-binary, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, gender fluid, intersex and other folk who do not fit into the traditional cis man/woman gender binary.

We are normal people with children to feed, ailing parents to care for, bills to pay, lawns to mow. We did not choose this battle.

You do not have to be trans+ to march with us.

You could be a normal person with children to feed, ailing parents to care for, bills to pay, lawns to mow. Our battle could be your battle too.

If you like freedom, you are one of us.

If you like to walk in safety, you are one of us.

If you like to love others and to be loved, you are one of us.

If you like to roll out of bed in the morning and pull on the clothes that feel most you, if you like to style your hair your way, if you like to have a name that fits you and feels comfortable for you, you are one of us.

I know for myself that I would like to feel less scared.

I would like to have a place to pee in public where I don’t get strange looks. I would like to have my correct gender on my passport – or the choice of a passport that does not declare my gender at all.

I would like to be free to travel to any country in the world without fear of detention. I do not want to be an exile. I have courage and I stand tall, but I am tired. We are tired.

We are ready to be known by you. We exist in the world and we invite you to join us.

The safety that you take for granted, we cannot take for granted.

The laws that protect you do not protect us.

Love is stronger than hatred. Allyship is love.

Will you walk by our side?

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Homa stands in solidarity with the trans+ community, within the training and beyond and we are deeply committed to being actively trans-inclusive. We walk alongside all trans+ folks in allyship and action.