The majority of UK trans people have a lack of trust in Labour, a new survey has revealed. 

The YouGov poll, commissioned by the Good Law Project, surveyed the views of 457 trans, non-binary, and intersex adults.

It found that 91 per cent of trans people surveyed said they distrusted Labour with trans rights, with the Conservative Party scoring 96 per cent. Labour leader Keir Starmer has made several U-turns on his previous positions about the trans community, including appearing to no longer agree that trans women are women.

The survey’s results, which follow Wes Streeting’s permanent ban on puberty blockers and the party’s abandonment of a manifesto to make the process of gender recognition easier, contrast with YouGov’s tracker, which found that 62 per cent of Britons think Labour is ““untrustworthy”, while only 15 per cent consider the party “trustworthy”. 

The poll comes on the final day of voting for Labour’s deputy leader, which is a race between Lucy Powell and the women and equalities minister, Bridget Phillipson.

Phillipson has a mixed record on LGBTQ+ rights, and has faced criticism for her support of the Supreme Court ruling which decided the legal definition of “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act referred to biological sex at birth.

‘For the purposes of the Equality Act, sex is biological sex’

In September, Phillipson was handed the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) code of practice on single-sex services, which could result in what essentially amounts to a bathroom ban for trans people.

@pinknews Education secretary Bridget Phillipson seemed unable to provide an answer after a trans woman quizzed her about where she’s allowed to go to the toilet. During an interview with trans journalist and writer Izzy Dine, published online on Tuesday (21 October), the women and equalities minister was asked what bathroom she thought Dine and other trans women should currently be using. In September, Phillipson, who is currently running the Labour deputy leadership candidacy, was handed the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) code of practice on single-sex services, which could result in a bathroom ban for trans people. Changes to the code of practice were proposed in April following the FWS v Scottish Ministers Supreme Court ruling, which stipulated that the 2010 Equality Act’s definition of a woman referred to a ‘biological woman.’ Click the link to read the full story. #labourparty #bridgetphillipson #transrights #transwomen #lgbtqia ♬ Minimal for news / news suspense(1169746) – Hiraoka Kotaro

Asked what bathroom trans women should currently be using recently, Phillipson appeared unable to give a clear answer, instead simply restating the ruling, the full impact of which remains unclear: “As Minister for Women and Equalities, I set out the policies responding to the Supreme Court judgement. The Supreme Court were clear that, uh, for the purposes of the Equality Act, sex is biological sex.

Unsurprisingly, the YouGov poll also found that 60 per cent of trans respondents say they distrust the EHRC. 

Jo Maugham, executive director of the Good Law Project, described Labour’s stance as part of a wider “cruelty Olympics”. 

“Labour knows the jeopardy trans people endure. Before the election it promised to ‘remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance’. But in government it has lined up alongside the Tories and Reform UK at the cruelty Olympics.”

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