Lisa Nandy speaking at a hustings event for Labour Leader on February 16, 2020 in London, England. (Hollie Adams/Getty Images) British opposition party leader hopeful Lisa Nandy said she was given a “pause for thought” while signing a pledge card from the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights. The 12-point pledge by the independent campaign group
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Myla Corvidae has now lost her confidence in the clothing store (Screenshot: Independent/SWNS.COM) Marks & Spencer has been forced to issue an apology to a transgender non-binary person after a member of staff refused to let them try on clothes in the men’s changing rooms. Myla Corvidae, 30, was shopping in the menswear section of
Non-binary poet Gray Crosbie performed their spoken word poem for BBC Scotland’s The Social. (BBC Scotland) Piers Morgan has claimed the BBC is “pumping out gender nonsense” for giving a platform to a non-binary poet speaking out about the struggles of getting a simple haircut. The difficulties LGBT+ people face receiving gender-affirming services like haircuts
Lisa Nandy, Kier Starmer and Rebecca Long-Bailey at the LGBT+ Labour leadership hustings, presented by PinkNews and supported by Diva. (PinkNews) Rebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Sir Keir Starmer warned against LGBT+ rights being eroded and stressed of the importance of Labour party members leading the fight against hate. Speaking at the LGBT+ Labour leadership hustings, presented by PinkNews and
Leicestershire Police’s trans flag provoked a storm of criticism (Twitter/@LeicsPoliceLGBT) Leicestershire Police have faced harsh criticism for flying a trans Pride flag outside its headquarters to celebrate LGBT+ History Month. The force’s LGBT+ network Twitter account tweeted a picture of the transgender flag flying outside the headquarters in Enderby on February 16. “A miserable day
The Catholic Church has explained its position on trans rights – and it’s singing from a very old, very homophobic hymn book. (Michael Campanella/Getty Images) The Catholic Church has vowed to defeat gender recognition reform in Scotland to reassert the “natural instinct” of marriage between one man and one woman. The church restated its long-standing
Lisa Nandy speaking at a hustings event for Labour Leader on February 16, 2020 in London, England. (Hollie Adams/Getty Images) Labour leadership hopeful Lisa Nandy has dismissed claims that she’s anti-gay as “daft and offensive”, pointing to her record of supporting LGBT+ rights. This includes her signing, this week, 12 pledges in support of transgender
Kemi Badenoch, junior minister for equalities and Saffron Walden MP. (Chris McAndrew/Official portrait of Kemi Badenoch) Boris Johnson’s new junior minister for equalities, Kemi Badenoch, abstained on the extension of same-sex marriage to Northern Ireland. Badenoch has also criticised young people for having a “puritanical” approach to sexual harassment. Johnson handed Badenoch, 40, the role