London Trans+ Pride announce 2025 theme with support from famous names
With the theme 'Existence & Resistance', London Trans+ Pride returns in July 2025, uniting voices in protest, solidarity, and support for the UK’s trans+ community.
Date published: 6th May 2025
London Trans+ Pride will return to the capital on Saturday, 26th July 2025, marking seven years of powerful protest, visibility, and community. With the announcement of this year’s theme - Existence & Resistance - the message is clear: This year’s march is more important now than ever before.
Launched as a grassroots march in 2019, London Trans+ Pride has grown into one of the most vital public demonstrations in the UK. Last year saw over 60,000 people take to the streets, making it the largest Trans Pride event in history.
The announcement and support follow the recent Supreme Court ruling that controversially redefined “biological sex” in a way that enables the exclusion of trans women from single-sex services - a ruling made without consultation from a single trans-led organisation.
As political hostility rises, this year’s event is a defiant stand against erasure, and a celebration of trans+ lives, past and present, resilience, activism and joy.
Lewis G. Burton (they/them), founding member of London Trans+ Pride, said: “This year's Supreme Court ruling has caused confusion, grief, and real harm - not just for trans people in the UK, but for our communities globally. The judgement erases the realities of intersex people, ignores the lived experience of trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people, and reinforces the idea that only a narrow, outdated definition of womanhood deserves legal protection. The Court didn't hear from a single trans organisation. Instead, it sided with a well-funded, vocal minority committed to stripping us of our rights.
"We want to be clear: this ruling deepens the fracture of trust between the LGBTQ+ community and the Labour Party - a party many of us once looked to for protection. It's hard to feel hope when we are met with silence, or worse, complicity. This year's theme is Existence and Resistance because every day we live our lives with dignity and joy is an act of protest. We march to remind our siblings that they are not alone - that despite the cruelty of this government and the noise of a few hundred bigots, we are still here. We are a natural, eternal part of humanity. You cannot legislate us out of existence. We don't want special treatment - we want to live in peace, to love freely, to build our futures without fear. That is not too much to ask."
Among the high-profile supporters are artists, broadcasters, politicians, and campaigners who are using their voices to back the community loudly and proudly.
Honey Dijon (she/her) said: "No amount of legislation will ever erase or silence trans people, we have always been here and will continue to exist outside of an antiquated oppressive system known as the patriarchy."
Rina Sawayama (she/her) said: "London Trans Pride is a beautiful annual event of joy, protest, love and more. It is now, more than ever, vital that we support the trans community by any means possible – they are one of the most marginalised groups of people in the UK and in recent years, they have been under near constant attack from all sides and enough is enough. I implore people from across the UK to turn up this year (be it physical or financial) to show the anti-trans lawmakers, politicians and hate groups that they are on the wrong side of history and that trans people are loved and supported universally."This year’s theme comes at a time when the UK’s trans+ population faces increasing marginalisation, fuelled by hostile media narratives, legislative rollbacks, and most recently, a Supreme Court ruling that redefined “biological sex” — a move widely criticised for enabling exclusion and erasure.
Jeremy Corbyn (he/him) added: “There has never been a more important time to turn up in solidarity with the trans community. Trans people are one of the most marginalised groups in society, but they are so much more than that. They are artists. They are writers. They are campaigners. Above all, they are human beings who just want to live in dignity and peace.”
Singer Paloma Faith (she/her) also shared a message of fierce support: “I stand in solidarity with the trans community and always will. Trans rights are human rights, and they deserve our protection, empathy, and understanding. I despise that they are being used as scapegoats for human suffering when the source of it is actually the very people who try and brainwash people into discriminating against them. My heart goes out to all my trans friends, I am a proud and loving ally.”
Other notable supporters include Munroe Bergdorf, Jameela Jamil, Clara Amfo, Eddie Suzy Izzard, Harris Dickinson, Will Young, Jessie Ware, Steps, Alison Goldfrapp, Jake Shears and more.
With more voices joining the call and thousands expected to march again this summer, London Trans+ Pride 2025 is shaping up to be one of the year’s most vital acts of collective defiance and love.
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