London Trans+ Pride is a pride march advocating

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History

London Trans+ Pride was founded in 2019 by Lucia Blayke, inspired by Trans Pride Brighton. It was founded in part due to a rising climate of transphobia in the UK and across the world, as well as in response to an anti-transgender protest controversy that occurred at the Pride in London march in 2018, where eight anti-trans activists took the lead of the march without authorisation. The event was originally scheduled to take place in Hackney, East London but was moved to central London and has remained there in subsequent years. The 2019 march was held in September and saw attendance of around 1500 people. The 2020 march saw attendance of 4000 people, with a number of COVID-19 safety measures put in place by the organisers, and called for legal recognition of non-binary identities and a ban on intersex genital mutilation. It also included a memorial to Elie Che, a prominent transgender London activist and performer who died in August of that year. The 2021 march was held in June, and included calls for a ban on conversion therapy, greater access to healthcare for trans people, and a ban on intersex genital mutilation. The event included speeches by Munroe Bergdorf, Ki Griffin,

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, Abigail Thorn, and Kai-Isaiah Jamal. The 2022 march was held in July, with attendance of over 20,000 people. The event called to "celebrate the memory of trans lives taken and uphold the next generation of trans revolutionaries," and included speeches by Yasmin Finney and Charlie Craggs. Abigail Thorn said at the event that "legally and politically", trans people in the country "are not allowed to control our own lives". In 2023, it was estimated 25,000 to 35,000 people attended the march. The organisers emphasised the event was still a protest in what was called the "biggest ever" call for trans rights in the UK. In 2024, at least 55,000 to 60,000 people attended the march, motivated in part by the British government’s recently enacted ban on puberty blockers, making it the biggest trans pride march in the world to date. Since 2019, London Trans+ Pride has been run by a volunteer organising committee which includes EM Williams, Sweatmother, Ren Mars, Lewis G. Burton as well as many who have wished to remain anonymous. In addition to the yearly protest, London Trans+ Pride march, they also hold additional events for trans advocacy including a takeover of the NOMAD stage at

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in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

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