Britain has dropped down Europe's LGBTQ+ rights rankings. Good - now we might have to face reality | Jason Okundaye

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : The supreme court's ruling last month that a person's sex in the Equality Act 2010 refers only to "biological sex" - a redefining of trans people's rights to their detriment, and a political and cultural victory for the gender critical movement - will have played a key role in the downgrading.
46% : One of the recommendations for how the UK can improve its standing in next year's rainbow map is to "ensure timely and accessible trans healthcare, including addressing excessive waiting times and restoring access to puberty blockers for trans youth" - provision of which has been indefinitely banned following the Cass review of April 2024.
43% : That today's government would enact May's pledges to ease gender transition is unthinkable.
42% : She says "my identity is politicised and weaponised in a way that is antithetical to my beliefs."
37% : Same-sex marriage had been legalised in 2013, David Cameron called for action to tackle transphobic bullying, and in 2017 Theresa May would announce reform to the gender recognition act to allow people to change gender without medical checks.

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