London Trans+ Pride (LT+P) returns to central London for its eighth year of march and protest on Saturday 25 July 2026, announcing its theme ‘Our Future, Our Fight’ and calling for solidarity as the trans+ community faces continued challenges to its rights
London Trans+ Pride returns to central London on Saturday 25th July 2026 for its eighth year of march and protest, announcing today this year’s theme: Our Future, Our Fight. The theme Our Future, Our Fight serves both as an acknowledgement of that reality and a firm refusal to accept it.
The event has received messages of solidarity from Paul Mescal, Mel B, Mayor Zoë Garbett, Michaela Coel, Jessie Ware, Jameela Jamil, Munroe Bergdorf, Jeremy Corbyn, Yasmin Finney and others.
In his first public statement on trans rights, Paul said: “I’m incredibly proud to stand in support of my trans friends and the wider trans community. Given the political climate at the moment it feels more and more pressing that we make our voices heard. This is a moment for respect, safety and recognition. Trans rights are human rights.”
Spice Girl Mel B noted that London Trans+ Pride is “a moment to show up loud and proud.”
“Every single person deserves to live freely and be exactly who they are in a world that accepts and embraces every culture, every class, every race and every one,” she added. I stand with the trans community today and every day.”
Last year saw over 100,000 people take part in the largest trans pride event in history – a record London Trans+ Pride appears poised to break once more in 2026.
The political backdrop to this year’s march makes for sobering reading. Following last year’s Supreme Court ruling — which redefined “biological sex” in a manner that permits the exclusion of trans women from single-sex services, without any input from trans-led organisations — the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has moved to put that ruling into effect.
Its draft Code of Practice, laid before Parliament on 21 May 2026 and once again drawn up without consulting any trans-led organisation, instructs service providers to bar trans women from single-sex spaces.
Trans rights groups, including TransActual, warn that it leaves trans people with fewer legal protections than existed prior to the ruling. Beyond the EHRC guidance: puberty blockers have been permanently banned for trans young people, and the Government’s draft ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026’ guidance rolls back trans inclusion in schools.
The UK now sits 22nd out of 49 European countries on the ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map — a nation that topped the very same index as recently as 2015. As Lewis G. Burton (they/she), one of the founding members of London Trans+ Pride, explains, trans people are “not headlines, culture war talking points or distractions from society’s real issues” — they are teachers, carers, artists, parents, neighbours and friends who simply wish to live safely within their communities.
London Trans+ Pride organiser EM Williams (they/them) perfectly encapsulates the spirit of the march: “Why do we keep fighting? Because there is hope… Our Future is that hope, with the catalyst of love, believing in genuine human empathy and the desire for everyone to be treated with respect, dignity, equality and equity”.
London Trans+ Pride is urging allies — friends, family, colleagues, and all those who believe in dignity and equality — to stand alongside the trans+ community on 25th July. Last year’s attendance of 100,000 delivered a powerful message: the vast majority of people believe trans individuals deserve safety and the freedom to exist without fear.
In 2026, that message must ring out even louder. As Dani St James of Not A Phase states: “Shelve passive allyship and step into active advocacy. Show up on the streets and then take that same energy to your workplace, your social circles, your local pub, and your polling booth”.
Our Future, Our Fight also serves as a statement of strength. Trans+ people have been present throughout documented history and long before – spanning cultures, spanning eras, surviving every effort to wipe them out. That existence isn’t up for discussion. What is being discussed – what the march calls for – is whether society will opt to acknowledge, safeguard, and honour it.
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