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Election Special

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

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 bee

By Graham Robson • 4 min read

Transgender News

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

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

By Graham Robson • 1 min read

LGBTQ+ News

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

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 Suna

By Graham Robson • 2 min read

LGBTQ+ News

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

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

By Graham Robson • 1 min read

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

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. O

By Graham Robson • 2 min read

LGBTQ+ News

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to drop ban on conversion therapy

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.

By Graham Robson • 1 min read

HIV

Nicola Richards MP calls on Prime Minister to expand opt-out HIV testing to areas with high HIV prevalence

Opt-out testing is when patients who come into A&E are routinely tested for HIV when having other blood tests unless they opt not to.

By Graham Robson • 2 min read

Transgender News

UK government to publish trans guidance for schools for summer term

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised schools will receive guidance on policies for transgender pupils for the summer term after a teaching union said its members were navigating a ‘minefield’ around gender.

By Graham Robson • 2 min read

LGBTQ+ News

Commonwealth Day protest announced for Monday, March 13

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.

By Graham Robson • 2 min read

In The South

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

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

By Graham Robson • 3 min read

General News

Leading HIV organisations urge government to increase funding

35 of the UK’s leading HIV organisations have urged the government to increase HIV funding and achieve zero new cases by 2030.

By Rachel Badham • 1 min read