And Truss’s initiative comes just a week after it emerged that Stonewall had lost a key relationship with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Many lesbians and gay men of the time will remember the ways we adjusted our behaviour to conceal who we were. HIV/Aids killed tens of thousands of blameless gay men, many of them heartbreakingly young, while Margaret Thatcher’s government instituted Section 28. Instead, in recent years, its energies and the might of its funding — to the tune of several million pounds a year — have been poured into this divisive approach on trans rights. These solutions need to work for everyone: in this case, fairness for trans people and single-sex rights and services for women.

Source: Daily Mail May 31, 2021 21:46 UTC