Your President Team along with your BME Officer and LGBT Officer have listened to your concerns and sent a letter to local MPs who represent UWE students, and the Equalities Ministers.
Following our Presidents Team’s Statement on the EHRC Code of Practice on 22 May 2026, your President Team along with your BME Officer and LGBT Officer have listened to your concerns and therefore sent a letter to local MPs who represent UWE students, and the Equalities Ministers.
You can read the letter below:
Letter to MPs regarding EHRC
The MPs they have contacted are:
Karin Smyth MP
Claire Hazelgrove MP
Damian Egan MP
Minister for Women and Equalities, Bridget Phillipson MP
Women and Equalities Committee Member, Nia Griffith MP
You can read the response from Karin Smyth MP here.
We encourage all UWE Bristol students to contact your local MP. You can find your local MP here, and helpful resources produced by Transactual for support. UWE LGBT Society have also created resources to write to your MP, plus you can find a template to contact your MP from TransActual, Trans+ Solidarity Alliance and Scottish Trans.
For information on support available to you as a UWE student regarding this consultation, read our article here.