Trans support is on the rise despite Supreme Court ruling endangering rights
Google Trends analysis shows that support and ally-ship for the trans community has doubled since last June with searches for "transgender" and "trans flags" peaking after UK Supreme Court ruling
2025 has seen a decline in rights and safety for the British transgender community, after the UK Supreme Court ruled in favour of the definition of a woman being biological in sex. However, recent analysis of Google search trends show support for the trans community has risen 50 percent in the last year.
On April 16, UK Supreme Court judge Lord Hodge confirmed the Equality Act would now refer to the term woman as "a biological woman and biological sex". At the time, Judge Hodge was adamant that the ruling was not a clear win for either the community or For Women Scotland (FWS), and insisted that the law protected trans people against discrimination. The LGBTQ+ community and trans charities disagree.
Trans charities and activists shared their worries with the Mirror on the day of the ruling, sharing how they believed the Supreme Court decision would allow space open for further hate-crimes on trans individuals. A spokesperson of trans charity Gendered Intelligence said: "Sadly, this judgement is likely to empower those who want to exclude trans people, but we trust that this remains a small minority".
Since the ruling, both activists and allies for the trans community have come together in solidarity and support for the minority suffering the societal displacement, especially after the new definition saw an active exclusion of the community from general public places like gendered toilets.
Download festival came under fire after stating their decision to abide by biological-gendered toilets, excluding both trans attendees and artists from using bathrooms that aligned with their gender identities.
Charity TransActual also made a stand on May 21 after planting a trans-flag themed toilet on the UK Supreme Court steps after Baroness Kishwer Falkner's, active chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, stated that trans rights groups should create their own separate "third space," effectively adding to their exclusion of women's spaces.
And yet, despite all of this, Google Trends has found that that " Transgender" terms have been searched more than ever in 2025, with searches for the " trans flag" increasing by 50 percent compared to last June.
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By this, we can infer that the general British public are showing up in solidarity against this ruling that endangers both the trans community and women who claim the real harm to women and general perpetrators are cis-gendered (biologically born and identifying) men.
Women's Aid states that, from an On Track national data report which relates to female service users, an overwhelming majority of alleged perpetrators are male, at 94.4 percent, in 2024. Many LGBTQ+ allies have argued that the ruling, which directly effects segregated places like bathrooms and prisons, puts both cis-gendered women, and trans men and women, at risk of harm and abuse.
The Mirror also reports that, in the 2021 Census in England and Wales, only 0.5% of the population said that their gender identity was different to their biological sex at birth, making them a clear minority group in the UK.
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