London Trans+ Pride returning for 2025 at critical moment for community

London Trans+ Pride

London Trans+ Pride 2025 is just a month away and is set to draw attention to the issues being faced by the transgender community.

In 2024, some 60,000 marchers – a record number – took to the streets of central London in solidarity with trans and non-binary people across the world. Unlike previous years, a theme has not yet been specified for 2025 but London Trans+ Pride will be taking place in the wake continued political attacks and the UK Supreme Court’s verdict of the definition of a “woman” under the 2010 Equality Act.

Marchers will gather in front of the All Souls, Langham Place church from 1pm on 26 July, before setting off down Regent Street towards Piccadilly Circus.

From there, protestors will walk towards the statue of Princess Diana in Green Park before heading to Wellington Arch at 4pm where there will be community speeches, due to officially end at about 6.45pm.

Marchers are encouraged to bring signs, banners, flags and face masks, as well as flowers, water, friends and earplugs (some will be supplied by London Trans+ Pride) if necessary.

People are also advised to wear comfortable shoes and bring change in case they need to use public toilets along the route.

The event’s website says the march will be supported by approximately 500 trained volunteer stewards along the route. They will be identifiable by their purple high-vis vests. Medics will also be hand.

The queer and trans-run organisation Safe Only Ltd will also be providing welfare officers to offer more specific assistance to anyone who needs it. They will be wearing fluorescent pink/orange high-vis jackets. Safe Only will also be providing security staff.

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Last year’s event featured speeches from Trans Legal Clinic chief executive Olivia Campbell-Cavendish, and the founder of the Trans Prisoner Alliance, Sarah Jane Baker, who made return after being arrested the year before.

Now in its sixth year, London Trans+ Pride will take place against a backdrop of anti-trans legislative attacks in from US president Donald Trump. He’s banned trans people from serving in the military, as well as made moves to restrict or block access to gender-affirming care, and erased pages of content from public-health websites.

At home, the Supreme Court’s verdict sent shockwaves through the community and its allies, and led organisations and public bodies to “misinterpret” the ruling and implement exclusionary policies blocking trans people from some spaces.

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