# @pinknews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DMXnphHR_g2
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32964588-pinknews-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-07-21T12:00:40.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** PinkNews (@pinknews) — https://gondola.cc/pinknews

## Caption

Brit-Award-winning singer @katenash joined nearly 1,000 trans people and allies at a mass lobby of parliament, and said if draft Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) guidance on single-sex spaces was implemented it would be “devastating to trans lives”.

The singer, best-known for her Noughties track “Foundations” and who recently released fiercely pro-trans single “Germ”, turned up at the event on Wednesday (25 June).

A mass lobby is when a large number of people contact their MPs and members of the House of Lords in advance and all arrange to meet them at parliament on the same day. Such activities are often organised by campaign groups to show the strength of feeling about an issue.

The crowd at Westminster wanted to voice their concerns about the EHRC’s proposed changes to its Code of Practice on single-sex spaces which look set to be implemented in the wake of the UK Supreme Court’s gender ruling.

When the guidance was published, the EHRC said it would give the government an updated version of its Code of Practice by the end of June, to “support service providers, public bodies and associations to understand their duties under the Equality Act and put them into practice”.

The EHRC was criticised for making the public consultation period for the changes just two weeks and eventually bowed to pressure and extended the time frame to six weeks, which runs until 30 June.

The mass lobby was organised by the Trans+ Solidarity Alliance as part of its Unite for Trans Rights campaign and so many people turn up that the queue stretched along the side of the Palace of Westminster.

Organisers estimated that about 900 people turned up, making it as big as those which took place during the era of the much-reviled anti-LGBTQ+ law Section 28.

#transgender #lgbtqia #katenash #transrights

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