Category: UK Government

Articles Boris Johnson Government LGBTQ+ News Life Liz Truss Mike Freer News Theresa May UK Government

UK government to unveil new LGBTQ+ plan including improved gender services

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The UK government is set to reveal a new strategy for LGBTQ+ rights, including the prioritisation of improving NHS gender services. The new strategy is set to cover an array of other issues such as IVF, sex work and homelessness, The I newspaper reported. Equalities Minister Mike Freer is set to announce the measures in April before they are fully launched at the government’s LGBTQ+ conference later in the year. “The big part of the portfolio that Liz [Truss] has asked me to do is […] to work across government,”…

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Articles gender Gender Recognition Act Government LGBTQ+ News Life News non-binary Petition Self-identification Trans UK Government

Petition with almost 140,000 signatures forces parliamentary debate on self-identification

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A petition demanding reform to the Gender Recognition Act has triggered a debate on self-identification in the House of Commons. It is scheduled for 21 February after 137,271 people called on the UK government to make it easier for transgender and non-binary people to self-identify. “Reform the GRA to allow transgender people to self-identify without the need for a medical diagnosis, to streamline the administrative process, and to allow non-binary identities to be legally recognised,” part of it stated. The petition, which ran for six months and closed on 24…

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Articles Government LGBTQ+ News Life News Oliver Dowden MP pronouns UK Government

Tory party chair Oliver Dowden says we should stop “obsessing over pronouns” in “vacuous” speech

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Tory MP and party co-chair Oliver Dowden called out what he referred to as “woke” ideology for weakening the West. In a speech to the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing US think tank, this week, the former culture secretary said we should stop “obsessing over pronouns”. He added that being “woke” was a “dangerous form of decadence” hurting us at a time when “our attention should be focused on external foes”. “Rogue states are seeking to challenge the international order. And at the precise point when our resolve ought to be…

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Anti-LGBTQ discrimination Anti-LGBTQ+ law Articles Government Law LGBTQ+ News Life News Priti Patel same-sex Sex UK UK Government

Gay sex convictions under now-abolished laws to be wiped by UK govt

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Priti Patel is set to announce a pardons scheme expansion covering any conviction given to those engaging in consensual homosexual activity. The Home Secretary is reportedly planning to broaden the government’s Disregards and Pardons scheme, meaning that those who were convicted of a crime under the now-abolished legislation can apply to have it wiped from their criminal record with no requirement to disclose it in the future. The Home Office said that the nine former offences currently included on the specified list “largely focused on the repealed offences of buggery…

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Articles Boris Johnson Chris Bryant Government Homophobia LGBTQ+ hate crime LGBTQ+ News LGBTQ+ safety Life News Politics UK Government

Chris Bryant MP: “I do feel less physically safe as a gay man than I did 30 years ago”

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Chris Bryant, a senior Labour MP said that he feels “less physically safe as a gay man” than he did three decades ago. Speaking on the BBC’s Political Thinking podcast, the MP for Rhondda explained that there are members of the government who “stir the pot” when it comes to LGBTQ+ issues. He said: “There’s a world where people who think it’s politically advantageous to stir that pot and that makes me genuinely fearful. “I’m not accusing the prime minister of being homophobic but I do feel less physically safe…

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Articles Culture LGBT Business Champion LGBTQ+ News Liz Truss News UK Government

Activists fear UK’s ‘LGBT Business Champion’ could be “tick-box” exercise

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Liz Truss announced the appointment of Iain Anderson as the UK’s new LGBTQ+ Business Champion on 10 September. According to the government, the role will see Anderson collaborate with businesses to support the community in the workplace as he attempts to find solutions to workplace discrimination. Anderson, the executive chairman of public relations firm Cicero who is also gay, said: “I am passionate about securing equality in the workplace and I’m delighted to take on this new role. “It is important that both large and small businesses can unleash the…

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Articles Boris Johnson Conversion Therapy Life News UK Government

UK Government accused of ‘burying’ research regarding conversion therapy

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Campaigners have accused the UK Government of burying important research that looked at people’s experiences of conversion therapy in Britain. A report was commissioned more than two years ago during Theresa May’s time as Prime Minister, and was funded by the Government Equalities Office. Led by Adam Jowett, of Coventry University’s Psychological, Social and Behavioural Sciences department, the research called for people to share their first-hand experiences of conversion therapy in the UK. This was based on “whether it happened in a medical, commercial or faith-based context”. Conversion therapy refers…

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