Minister for Women and Equalities Liz Truss sets out priorities to Women and Equalities Select Committee
Updated information on Minister for Women and Equalities Liz Truss on her speech on the Women and Equalities Select Committee on 22 April 2020
As many of you would have seen, that the UK Government Ministers for Women and Equalities, Liz Truss, was planning a series of policy changes that could make many LGBT+ people’s live much harder.
Liz Truss was due to speak in Parliament about equalities on 22nd April 2020. Our Prime Minister (Boris Johnson at the time ) was likely being asked to agree to the proposals at the time.
We know from looking at similar attempts at “Bathroom Bills” in North Carolina and Texas that exclusion of trans people from toilets is unworkable. Instead when these laws are passed, we all suffer. Who can do something as simple as using the toilet in a shopping centre comes down to whether you fit society’s gender norms. Whether you “look like a woman” or “look like a man”.
Gender non-conforming women, lesbians, trans people –all could be harmed. This will be worse for members of those groups who are Black or people of colour, or who are disabled. Gender norms so often imagine “real women” and “real men” as White, able-bodied, straight and cisgender (not trans).
Consortium made a template web-form which they shared with us.
The speech
Delivered on: (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered)