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Election Special

From gender-affirming care to conversion therapy, where do the main political parties stand on LGBTQ+ rights?

Graham Robson June 15, 2024

As the UK prepares to go to the polls on July 4, the nation’s two main parties – the Labour Party and the Conservatives – have released their manifestos, with LGBTQ+ issues and policies featuring in both. Key topics – such as gender-affirming care, conversion therapy and single-sex spaces – have been major points of […]

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Transgender News

Liz Truss calls on government to prevent children from changing gender and ban trans women from competing in women’s sport

Graham Robson March 10, 2024

Liz Truss, Conservative prime minister for just 50 days, is calling on Rishi Sunak to back legislation preventing children from attempting to change their gender and banning trans women from entering female-only spaces or competing in women’s sport. Truss’ attempt to change the law – the Health and Equality Acts (Amendment) Bill – will need […]

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LGBTQ+ News

“Sickening”. Rishi Sunak’s trans jibe – made while mother of Brianna Ghey attended Prime Minister’s Questions – condemned by Amnesty International

Graham Robson February 7, 2024

Rishi Sunak has been criticised for aiming a political jibe about trans people at Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer – while the mother of murder victim Brianna Ghey attended Prime Minister’s Questions. In Prime Minister’s Questions, his weekly showdown with MPs and the leader of the opposition, Mr Sunak said the Labour leader had broken […]

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LGBTQ+ News

Equality and Human Rights Commission calls on UK government to ban “harmful” conversion therapy practices

Graham Robson October 18, 2023

The UK’s equality watchdog, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), has called on the government to ban “harmful” conversion therapy practices, which seek to change or suppress someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The EHRC says legislation to outlaw conversion therapy should be included in the King’s Speech in November. Baroness Kishwer Falkner, who […]

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LGBTQ+ News

LGBTQ+ children’s education company Pop’n’Olly to donate 300 LGBTQ+ children’s books to primary schools in the constituencies of Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman

Graham Robson October 5, 2023

In response to “anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric” coming from the Tory Party Conference, LGBTQ+ children’s education company Pop’n’Olly has announced they are donating 300 of its LGBTQ+ children’s books to primary schools in the constituencies of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman. Olly Pike, CEO and Founder of Pop’n’Olly, said, “When the people in […]

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LGBTQ+ News

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to drop ban on conversion therapy

Graham Robson September 25, 2023

Ministers, who have concluded that similar legislation has proven problematic or ineffective in other countries, are reportedly working on an alternative solution, which would highlight existing laws that the government believes already criminalise several aspects of conversion therapy.

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LGBTQ+ News

Commonwealth Day protest announced for Monday, March 13

Graham Robson March 9, 2023

Thirty-two out of 56 Commonwealth member states criminalise same-sex relations, in defiance of the “toothless” Commonwealth Charter. Seven have life imprisonment and only recently the “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” has returned in Uganda. 

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In The South

Forty-four community food groups call for immediate action on the cost of living crisis in Brighton & Hove

Graham Robson March 21, 2022

A coalition of 44 community food groups in Brighton & Hove is this week calling on Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak to implement a 12-point package of measures to address hunger in the city

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