If there are ten of you reading this, nine probably won’t survive the next few years. One of you will escape, and live. Which one of you will it be? A friend of ours told us an innocent annecdote recently which gains a chilling angle in the light of current events. They described conversations among […]
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Asylum For Trans Brits And Americans: We Need To Talk
If you are a British or American trans person, things are not looking good. For Brits there’s a horrifyingly speedy descent into a TERF utopia after the UK Supreme Court sided with transphobes, while for Americans there’s Trump and MAGA. As people scramble for the exit a lot of them are asking about claiming asylum […]
Leaving The UK For Ireland — What You Need To Know
In the aftermath of the UK Supreme Court judgement in favour of For Women Scotland, conditions for British trans people have worsened, and we have seen a huge increase in enquiries from Brits wanting to leave. For them the easiest destination is Ireland, or more specifically the Republic of Ireland, which because of the Common […]
Press Release: Transgender People Are Escaping The UK, Says Dutch NGO
PRESS RELEASE Transgender People Are Escaping The UK, Says Dutch NGO Enschede, Netherlands, 30/04/2025 Contact information: contact@transrescue.org Trans Rescue, a Netherlands-based refugee NGO, has seen a 40-fold increase in British transgender people seeking to escape hate in the United Kingdom following the recent Supreme Court case that invalidated their human rights. Anne Ogborn, Director, Trans […]
Advice For Trans Americans on Trump’s Inauguration Day
Today, Donald Trump will be inaugurated for his second term as President of the United States. We all know what kind of president he will be, and what this is likely to mean for trans Americans. Our advice remains as it has been for the past few years; for trans Americans to plan their exit […]
A Transgender Information Centre: How To Hold The Hate Criminals To Account
As 2024 draws to a close it’s likely you may be facing every day as we are, with a sense of dread as to what is likely to happen in the New Year. In America, President-elect Trump is making dire pronouncements about how he will come for trans people once elected, in the UK Keir […]
Interpreting Trump’s Speech On Transgender Policy
As this is being written, we sit just under a month away from President Trump’s second inauguration. As you might expect, his every utterance is being studied for clues as to the direction his notoriously unpredictable administration might take, though with some pronouncements there’s little room for doubt. Currently in the news is a speech […]
Don’t Bet the Farm On It, But A UK-Europe Youth Mobility Scheme Might Help You
It’s fair to say that for British trans people, 2025 does not promise to be the best of years. The much-hated Conservative government may have gone, but the newly-elected Labour government of Keir Starmer has proven itself to be just as infiltrated by TERFs as its predecessor. As this is being written our community is […]
Review Of the Year: 2023
It’s been a hectic but transformative year for Trans Rescue with a lot of stress and plenty of ups and downs, but we’ve come through it and we’re delighted to be able to say that with your help we’ve been able to help over 140 people to safety so far in 2023. In this review […]
Maeen al-Dahbali – Now It Can Be Told
Maeen is a Yemeni cis man who became an anti-child-soldier activist during the earlier years of the Yemeni civil war, subsequently becoming the civil servant with responsibility for child services in the city of Taiz. This made him the enemy of all the warring factions due to his opposition to child recruitment, and he was […]