By Andrew Godfrey-Collins. Ahead of last year’s Pride, I wrote for In Common about the current Labour government’s frankly abysmal LGBT+ record. Under then Prime Minister Keir Starmer, it had become the first government since Margaret Thatcher’s to roll back progress for LGBT+ people. Specifically, it was in the...
Articles with the Tag EHRC
Reader’s letter: EHRC guidance doesn’t protect women and harms a vulnerable minority
By Trans Pride Southampton. We at Trans Pride Southampton are appalled at the recent EHRC guidance, surrounding trans people being able to use bathrooms, changing rooms and other facilities of the gender of which they identify as, coming into force. This guidance does not protect women from harm. Instead...
Reader’s letter: open letter to Southampton MPs on EHRC Draft Code of Practice
By Cllr Misty Burgess. Sent to MPs Satvir Kaur, Darren Paffey and Caroline Nokes, I am writing to you on behalf of the Southampton & District Green Party councillors regarding the Draft Code of Practice on Services, public functions and associations, in particular the impact it will have...