The group's first protest occurred in July 2024 during the
Pride in London parade, They held a sign above the building saying "we are not pawns for your politics" and were eventually joined by other transgender youth, with one holding a sign saying "The
Cass Report is built on
transphobia". The group made three demands: equal access to gender-affirming healthcare, protections against misgendering and deadnaming, and to no longer be used as "political pawns". The group was supported on
Twitter with the hashtag "#TransKidsDeserveBetter" and raised nearly £7,000 from digital donations. In August 2024, the group led a week-long occupation of a
Department for Education (DfE) building in London, saying that a draft guidance produced by the conservative government in December 2023 which had been delivered to British teaching institutions created "confusion" and an "unsafe environment". In May, the DfE had introduced guidance that would ban lessons on the concept of
gender identity, specified all lessons on trans people should focus on the legality of transitioning and that legal gender changes are reserved for those over 18, and mandated that while in school "boys cannot be legally classified as girls or vice versa". In October 2024, the group drew notice when protesters released sacks of
crickets during the conference of the
anti-trans group
LGB Alliance as one of the final talks was about to start. The group released a satirical video during the incident where a trans youth dressed as a cricket reported on the protest and stated that the LGB Alliance has opposed bans on
conversion therapy and platforms "proud speeches about shutting down trans healthcare". The group released a statement following the protest: "6 of us released about 6,000 crickets into hate group LGB Alliance's annual conference. The result of the conference, if it had gone ahead as planned, would have been an acceleration of transphobic hate and misinformation, which drives much of the attack on our healthcare and our dignity." In December 2024 16 trans activists from Trans Kids Deserve Better staged a die-in at
London Victoria station in order to call for the reversal of the ban on puberty blockers, lying on the floor with homemade cardboard headstones and coffins next to them, before moving to the
Department of Health and Social Care and leaving the headstones and coffins outside. The headstones and coffins detailed the interests of the activist holding them, for example "Here lies Merlin who loved Lord of the Rings" and "Here lies Buck who loved reading". Since August 2024, the group has left cardboard coffins outside UK Health Secretary
Wes Streeting's office to protest his renewal of the government's ban on puberty blockers following the
Cass Review as part of their campaign called "Kids Are Dying Wes". This campaign has since finished, and is now in its second phase. He has not responded to their requests to meet. In November TKDB staged a die in at
Victoria Station in London to protest the ban. An 18 year old activist with TKDB said Streeting "has chosen politics over our lives" and "We are being put through an experiment, but the experiment is to deny us healthcare, not to provide it. He wants to see what happens to us when we grow up permanently altered in ways we never wanted, and we never consented to be part of that." Members of the group have stated it is surprising they have received relatively little media coverage. One member stated "the fact that none of the news companies or newspapers have decided to report on this is surprising. I think it’s strategic. I feel like they’re trying to ignore us for as long as they can." ==Reception==