What We Do

We support.
We protect.
We amplify.

Black Trans Alliance C.I.C. is a Black queer and trans-led non-profit founded in 2020. We support, protect, and amplify the voices of Black trans and non-binary people across London and the wider UK — through advocacy, education, visibility, and empowerment. We provide direct support, we share information, and we campaign for the rights of trans people everywhere.

How we work

Our work sits across five pillars, all directed by people with lived experience:

• Advocacy. Campaigning for legal and policy change — from local councils to Westminster.
• Education. Training allies, professionals and institutions in trans-affirming practice.
• Visibility. Centring Black trans stories, creators and leaders in public life.
• Empowerment. Building the skills, networks and leadership of Black trans people directly.
• Support. Peer-to-peer connection, crisis support, and signposting to trans-affirming services.

This is movement work. It belongs to all of us — the people whose lives are on the line, and everyone willing to stand with them.

Transphobia is not abstract.

It is the foundation of the violence epidemic against Black trans and non-binary people — and every year, we lose community to it.

Political attacks restricting where we can be, what care we can access, even whether we exist in the eyes of the law are both fuelled by, and fuel, the public rhetoric that paints us as a threat. The UK Supreme Court ruling that excluded trans women from the legal definition of “woman” did not appear in a vacuum. It arrived because our humanity has been allowed to become a debate.

The cost of that debate lands across the whole arc of a life. Family rejection in childhood. Bullying in schools. Discrimination at work. Refusal of care in healthcare. Each is a step in a pattern, built on long-standing cultural beliefs about gender and a refusal to see Black trans and non-binary people as the full human beings we are.

Anti-Black racism layers on top of every one of those moments. Two structures of harm, working at once.