News
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EHRC consultation
There is now less than one week to fill in the EHRC’s consultation on the proposed changes to the Equality Act 2010. Allies need to ACT NOW to ensure that trans people’s voices are heard. We recommend that trans people do not fill in the consultation unless they feel entirely confident that doing so will not adversely affect their health and/or wellbeing. Instead, it is a much better use of our time to lobby institutions to respond, as organisations’ responses will likely hold more clout than individuals’.
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Statement on last week’s supreme court ruling
The supreme court ruling last week is the result of years of campaigning by dubiously funded hate groups determined to roll back trans rights in this country. It is an attempt to eliminate us from public life by preventing our access to crucial spaces like public bathrooms and opening us up to even greater violence and abuse.
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Access info for Sunday 27th April
This Sunday’s demo is being organised by Oxford for Trans Rights. We will be meeting at Bonn Square (WHAT3WORDS ///foam.gift.bags) at 11:00am.
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OTR plans local protest for Sunday 27th April, 11am
Following Wednesday’s supreme court ruling that the terms ‘man’ and ‘woman’ in the Equalities Act 2010 will now only refer to sex assigned at birth, the group Oxford for Trans Rights will be holding a protest in Oxford city centre next weekend to campaign for trans rights in the face of rising transphobia and right-wing ‘gender critical’ rhetoric.
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Statement on Anneliese Dodds’ resignation from Cabinet
Anneliese Dodds’ resignation from Cabinet comes after nearly nine months of Labour’s new anti-trans government. The Oxford East MP was Women and Equalities Minister when the UK’s first permanent ban on the prescription of puberty blockers came into place. If this is the kind of “groundbreaking new legislation on equality for […] LGBT+ people” that she is committed to then we welcome her exit from Cabinet.
