Tag Transgender Rights

Labour’s Section 28 with a twist

School

The shameful era of Section 28 echoes in the trauma of those subjected to government-sanctioned homophobia, embedding silence and stigma that continues to harm LGBTQIA+ people today. Margaret Thatcher, in her infamous reasoning behind the indefensible decision to “prohibit the…

Phillipson’s Choice

Bridget Phillipson

The EHRC is no longer an institution of protection. It is a tool of orchestrated erasure, and Labour is choosing to keep it that way. The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, Human Rights Watch, and eighteen United Nations experts have…

How the EHRC Enabled an Anti-Trans Agenda

In January 2023, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) held a closed-door meeting with Sex Matters, a group whose core mission is to roll back legal protections for trans people. For months, the meeting remained hidden from public view…

Authoritarian EHRC

Protesters from Trans Kids Deserve Better outside the EHRC’s London office, with a banner reading 'LISTEN TO US.'

The Equality and Human Rights Commission is falling apart. Its Chair, Kishwer Falkner, in a plea of authoritarian desperation, said “It is unacceptable to question the integrity of the regulator”, but the EHRC’s lack of integrity is on full display. …