Access Denied: Services, Spaces, Opportunity, and Dignity for Disabled Trans People (Panel event)

The recording for this event has been made available on our YouTube channel. Alternatively, you can view it above.

Disabled trans people face a unique and often invisible set of barriers that sit at the intersection of two frequently misunderstood identities. Healthcare systems, community spaces, support services, and public life are rarely designed with both trans and disabled people in mind simultaneously, and for those who live at that crossroads, the gaps can be profound. This panel event, hosted by Katie Hudson, brings together a powerful group of advocates and activists to shine a light on the lived realities of trans disabled people in the UK and beyond.

Across themes of access, dignity, visibility, and resistance, our speakers will draw on personal experience and professional expertise to explore what it means to navigate a world that too often denies people the services they need, the spaces they deserve, and the recognition of their full humanity. From healthcare and employment to social care and community belonging, this conversation asks hard questions about who our systems are truly built for – and what needs to change.

Joining us are Bobbi Pickard from Trans in the City, one of the UK’s foremost advocates for trans inclusion in the workplace; Hafsa Qureshi of TransActual, an organisation at the forefront of trans-led research and advocacy; Sarah Stephenson from Seeing Things Differently, bringing a disability-centred lens to the conversation; and the trailblazing Asifa Lahore, a barrier-breaking figure in British South Asian LGBTQ+ culture. Together, they represent a breadth of experience and activism that makes this an unmissable opening event for Intersectionality Awareness Week 2026.