The UK was once the most LGBTQ+ friendly country in Europe – now it’s 22nd
The UK was once the most LGBTQ+ friendly country in Europe – now it’s 22nd
Posted by No_Aesthetic
The UK was once the most LGBTQ+ friendly country in Europe – now it’s 22nd
The UK was once the most LGBTQ+ friendly country in Europe – now it’s 22nd
Posted by No_Aesthetic
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queue this sub and r/ukpolitics “what’s the big deal”ing lmao
Well, I can only hazard a guess at why. The waters have been clouded of late because of perceived confusion over gender identity issues. Or it could be because certain ideologies believe that hoiking from a tall building is acceptable. Take your pick.
Almost all remaining points from the “Legal gender recognition” section have been removed, with only the ones regarding name change remaining, which has caused this fall.
Recommendations from the Rainbow Map website:
> Ensure timely and accessible trans healthcare, including addressing excessive waiting times and restoring access to puberty blockers for trans youth outside restrictive research frameworks
> Conversion practices (sexual orientation, gender identity) prohibited
Because some wankers would rather pick fights with minorities that have zero measurable impact on their lives rather than address actual issues within the country, feel free to decide for yourself who I’m talking about.
This is surely very subjective, and dependent on which side is deemed correct on issues where there are mutually incompatible positions.
A “near-complete lack of rights for intersex people” sounds a bit of an exaggeration.
Not banning “hate speech” scores badly here, but scores well on indexes of freedom of expression
This is more a case of which boxes are ticked on their scorecard rather than any real change, isn’t it? Would you really rather be gay or trans in Montenegro?
Even after the change in interpretation of the Equality Act, being trans (and that’s what this is about, the “LGBQ” part of the acronym is in the same position it was before) is still a protected characteristic so you can’t be discriminated against for service provision, jobs or anything like that for being trans.
I honestly feel this kind of emphasis is unhelpful, it makes out that the UK is a terrible place to be trans, and that just isn’t true. That kind of sentiment can be self-reinforcing though, as the actual transphobes will be emboldened by it because they think their position is more normal than it is, ironically making it more normalised.
One of the the post EU Referendum effects of ” moving closer to (Republican) America ”, brought to us by our ever loving Conservative Party under the instruction of Nigel Farage- Trump’s man in Britain
A right royal stitch up