Jemma Garvey (Bi+ Representative) and Eilonwy Awen (Campaigns & Communications Officer) sat down (virtually) to discuss Jemma's new role as she was elected to the position of Bi+ representative at last week's AGM, after previously being the Women's Representative for the Proud National Committee.
A report by Jemma Garvey, Women's Representative Hate crimes against women and girls are on the rise in the UK, particularly with the increase in transphobic rhetoric. Women who don’t conform to gender stereotypes are even more at risk. And now, their protection is being stripped under
An article by Liam McClelland, Learning and Devolved Nations Officer “In loving memory of all the bright lights we lost to AIDS” appears on the screen above Madonna during her Celebration World Tour as she dedicates “Live to Tell” to the victims of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Madonna’s story
Transgender Day of Remembrance Report by Eilonwy Awen, Trans Representative Some days, grief and hope sit side by side. Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR) is one of those days. It's a time to remember trans people whose lives were taken by violence and discrimination, and to think about
Throughout this post, we will use Trans+ as an equivalent inclusive term to refer to anyone whose gender identity or expression does not fully correspond with the sex they were assigned at birth. This includes but is not limited to trans men, trans women, non-binary, genderfluid, genderqueer, agender or bi-gender.
We refer to Annual Delegate Conference or ADC, which is the annual policy making conference for the Public Commercial Services (PCS) Union. Delegates to ADC vote on motions, which if carried, will become PCS policy. ADC25 is the Annual Delegate Conference which took place in the year 2025. Motions marked
The Proud National Committee (PNC), as the independent representatives of the LGBT+ members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), unequivocally condemns the recent actions and statements by the Christian Institute (CI) and their representatives.In offering “no comment” when approached by the BBC, the PCS union leadership has
The PCS Proud National Committee is appalled following 25 motions at ADC 2025 being marked out of order—an unprecedented number compared to just 3 last year—due to legal concerns. It has not escaped our attention that the majority of these out-of-order motions relate to trans rights. For example,
PCS Proud reaffirms its belief that gender is a social construct and therefore defies binary definition. Since its implementation in 2004, the Gender Recognition Certificate has enshrined in legislation the right for transgender people to change their legal sex. Six years later, the Equality Act 2010 further protected the rights
PCS Proud condemns in the strongest terms the recent announcement that Wes Streeting intends to make permanent the ban on the use of puberty blockers in the treatment of young Trans people pending an immoral, unethical, and unworkable clinical trial that could take years. This ban is in defiance of
Every Transgender Day of Remembrance, we commemorate the trans lives that were lost this year through violence, either by murder or by their own hand. This year so far 350 trans people have been murdered, for no other reason than they are trans. More than one a day. In the
In July, several young trans+ activists occupied the ledge of NHS HQ in London to challenge the ban on puberty blockers as well as the numerous restrictions trans kids experience to get the healthcare they need. Now they are occupying the front of the Department of Education building in London,
Statement
PCS Proud commends the actions taken by #TransKidsDeserveBetter. As minors of an already vulnerable demographic, they have been at the brunt of vicious reactionary policies against which they have been denied a voice. Denying them a voice means action has become an inevitability as they fight the entirely ideological denial
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The recent blog hosted on our union’s website titled “Words for Lesbian Visibility Day 2024” contains inexcusable language that breaches our union’s equality policy as well as conference policy. This blog gatekeeps lesbianism, and implies those with a differing view of the label should utilise a different one.