THOUSANDS of trans rights activists took to the streets in London and Edinburgh on Saturday for what were billed as “emergency demonstrations” following the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman.

Demonstrators gathered in Parliament Square and at Edinburgh’s the Mound, before marching to the Westminster government offices at Queen Elizabeth House in rallies organised by Resisting Transphobia.

In Edinburgh, Lauren Yeoman, 38, said that she was taking part in the demonstration because she was “disgusted” at what she said amounted to the removal of trans people’s human rights.