U.K. Taking Their Clue From U.S.

The British conservatives are copying the Republicans in trying to demonize us.

UK launches unprecedented attack on trans rights, will ban transition before 18
Statement appears to threaten trans bathroom access.
Gay Star News
By Tris Reid-Smith
23 APR 2020

Britain’s new Equality Minister Liz Truss has announced a major government policy change on trans rights, banning transition before the age of 18.

Her statement may also be the start of an attack on trans people being able to use the right bathrooms and changing rooms.

Truss made the statement to the UK Parliament’s Women and Equalities Select Committee. Her comments came as the UK Parliament got back to work yesterday with MPs speaking online from their homes.

In it, she said the government would finally be updating the Gender Recognition Act this summer.

The current law dates from 2004. And the Conservative government has been promising to update it for several years. They ran an extensive public consultation in 2018. But further progress stalled in 2019 as the UK parliament imploded over Brexit.

Trans people initially believed the act would make it easier to change gender. But since it went up for debate, new anti-trans voices have emerged in UK media and social media.

We are facing a plague of right wing pundits backed by the religious right…

Meanwhile trans writer Jane Fae: ‘I am very concerned by the way in which certain fringe ministers and politicians are playing with anti-trans rhetoric because I suspect it wins them some brownie points on the wilder reaches of the Christian right.

The Christian right are spreading their hate to Poland, and former Russian block countries.

“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.”

We are becoming the scapegoat for all of the woes of the world to distract us from the oligarchies stripping the people from their wealth.