24/06/2020
Local newspaper B247 reports that trans people in Bristol are concerned, along with people across the UK that the government is about to give in to trans-critical feminist voices, a minority within the feminist movement globally, and stall any further reforms to the Gender Recognition Act. The Reforms, which have been planned by government for several years and welcomed by a variety of organisations and campaigners, would have allowed trans people to change their birth certificate without the current stipulation that they need to go through a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria. Instead, the government are alleged to have rushed through a formal ban on largely discredited “ex gay” quack therapies, in what has been described as a thinly veiled attempt to drive a wedge between the traditional alliance of trans people and LGB people. B247 further reports that these developments comes after women and equalities minister Liz Truss’ comments earlier in the year, which called for protection of single-sex spaces such as public toilets. Many analysis feel that the government has thrown the trans community to the proverbial wolves in the tabloid papers, whose traditional homophobia has been toned down in recent years, but who have found new groups against which to unleash their prejudices, including trans people. As if to underline the fact that prejudice against trans people remains fundamentally linked to a wider agenda of hatred against other groups such as lesbians and gay men, B247's story was subject to the usual nonsensical comments by anti-gay fanatics. Meanwhile, Nancy Kelly, CEO of the lobby group Stonewall and a data analyst with experience of compiling and sifting through data, has written for the Stonewall blog on just what the public consultation on Gender Recognition Act reform means, concluding that not only are the overwhelming majority of the public not prejudiced against trans people, but that also the supposed majority of women who are concerned about transgender people using a women's lavatory, that shibboleth of assorted seventies style feminists and conservative moralists alike, does not exist. But do not take our word for it. Ms Kelly's data crunching is online at Stonewall.org.uk
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