Our Open Letter to Zarah Sultana Praising Trans Solidarity

September 6th, 2025

Dear Zarah Sultana MP,

We, the membership of Harmony, are writing to you today to praise your ongoing and historic solidarity with trans people. 

We are a Party with strong roots in the trans community.  Our founder and general secretary is nonbinary, and we as a party are led always by our Trans Liberation Assembly on trans matters. 

We recognise your isolation. Many of us have experienced that isolation as we have stood up for ourselves – in the Labour Party, in small local organisations, and even in our own families. Standing up as an ally is difficult, too. 

So it is that we recognise and applaud your willingness to stand up against bigotry masquerading as so-called “social conservatism”. Trans people are people. We are not a debate. We are individuals, with hopes and fears and dreams. 

Jeremy Corbyn has highlighted this himself in the past, and has called for us to be given the “dignity” we deserve, despite his current silence and his public embrace of an MP who has spent far too much of the last week being provocatively transphobic. 

But we already carry that dignity within us. It is not for others to give, but for us to reclaim.

We claim our own freedom, just as we choose how we express our own identities. This is the lesson of queer liberation: we each deserve to forge our own destinies as best we can within the wider world.

The wider lesson of liberation is that your freedom, as you of course are well aware, is contingent on ours. There is no end to transphobia without an end to racism; there is no end to Islamophobia without an end to transphobia. Ableism does not pass from the world without white supremacy going with it. 

These oppressions are a web of violence within which we all toil in pursuit of liberation.

We see your standing alone against the tide within “Your Party” as a brave and important thing, and we offer our solidarity both from within and without — as many of us have joined the new party as well.

We hope you will persist this course, Zarah, and wish swift victory to your hand in the struggle we know is happening behind the scenes but we are not a part of. And should you yourself need a safe space, know you always have allies elsewhere, even those you have not yet met. 

In lasting solidarity and love,

by consensus of the Membership of Harmony Party UK