by VIC PARSONS
The majority of people in the UK are in favour of transgender people self-identifying their gender and children being taught about LGBT people at school.
Despite public protests, 59 percent of the UK population – including 47 percent of Conservative voters – back teaching LGBT-inclusive relationships education in schools.
56 percent of people are also in favour of trans people being able to self-identify their gender, which comes as the government is expected to respond to its consultation on potential reform of the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) in the coming weeks.
At the 2017 PinkNews Awards, Prime Minister Theresa May said, “We’ve set out plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act, streamlining and demedicalising the process for changing gender, because being trans is not an illness and it shouldn’t be treated as such.”
Since this statement, there has been a backlash to the proposals by those opposed to equality for transgender people.
Clear public support for trans people self-identifying their gender puts pressure on the government and the next prime minister to press ahead with reforms to the GRA that will make the process of changing legal gender easier and less intrusive for trans people. Read more via Pink News