Four-and-half years ago, the then leader of the opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, took to the podium at the PinkNews Awards and told the LGBTQ+ community that there was a “desperate need” to reform the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) and to introduce self-ID for trans people. Fast-forward to 2025 and Starmer apparently no longer even believes […]

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20 years ago, on 23 April 2005, a man uploaded a video of himself to YouTube. In the clip, titled Me at the Zoo, the man is at San Diego Zoo, in California. “All right, so here we are in front of the elephants,” he says in the wobbly 19-second footage, “and the cool thing […]

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Over 1300 British writers, including Michaela Coel, have signed an open letter expressing their solidarity with the trans community after the UK Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex. The letter – which calls on the UK’s Arts and Culture sector to support their trans and non-binary […]

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