TLDR: I support trans people's rights.
This I try to be a decent human and treat trans people the same way that I treat everyone else!
- This means respecting their dignity.
- This means the golden rule -- treating other people as I would hope to be treated.
- This means respecting people's rights to live and dress how they please.
- This means respecting the way a person identifies, calling them by their preferred name and pronouns.
- This means not ridiculing people or deliberately making them uncomfortable.
I'm also human and deeply flawed, so I hope people will be forgiven when I get their name or pronouns wrong. It isn't out of anti-trans malice - I do it to everyone!
How can anyone think anything else?
I'd sum it up:
Be a decent human being and treat other people respectfully.
It's not difficult or complicated.
Anything else is not acceptable.
Throughout my life, I've had many trans friends. I realise and they realise, some issues are tricky and there aren't clear-cut, obvious answers to every question.
There are some things open to reasonable debate, and others I don't know much about.
EXAMPLE:
I don't know when trans people should be welcomed or excluded from specific sporting events. And I don't need to have an opinion on this because I believe it should be decided by experts, perhaps the people who run an event and scientists.
The one thing I am sure about when it comes to trans people in sporting events -- it should not be the job of politicians to decide the rules.
TRANS RIGHTS
Rights aren't like cherry pie, so that if someone gets more, another person gets less. Trans and non-binary people are a tiny minority of the population -- they only need a tiny bit of pie.
I'm all for women, children, and trans people all having rights.
I'm very interested in the relationship between rights and responsibilities.
Suppose we stopped talking about rights and instead discussed our responsibilities to other people and to future generations, then what would this mean for trans people?
I think we (all of us as a society) have responsibilities to look after our neighbours so they don't face poverty, hunger, violence, or discrimination. Society has the responsibility to look after our most vulnerable members, and trans people are those vulnerable people.
This is the website of the Fledgling Trans Rights Caucus:
https://transliberationgroup.org.uk/
Their demands are simple.
A PARTY FOR EVERYONE
LEGALISE TRANS EXISTENCE
- Amend the Equality Act 2010 to undo the damage caused by the Supreme Court ruling of 16th April 2025 by making it clear “sex” refers to a person's current lived sex and adding gender identity as a protected characteristic. Ensure that “gender-critical” beliefs cannot be treated as protected beliefs.
REFORM THE BROKEN SYSTEM
This includes:
- Institute a complete ban on all types of conversion therapy, including trans conversion therapy. Support for people questioning their gender should be affirmative of their desires while giving space for people to explore their feelings.
- Enshrine in UK Law the right to privacy over your assigned gender at birth and trans status, and oppose all attempts to leave the ECHR, which guarantees the right to respect for your private and family life, including confidentiality around your assigned gender at birth under Article 8.
HEALTHCARE THAT WORKS
WHAT I THINK!
In my opinion, most of their demands are about basic things any decent person should support and that should be really easy to implement.
Changing the NHS -- funding it to meet all of our needs, that isn't going to be a quick or easy fix. And I'm mindful that healthcare services are terribly underfunded at the moment. I think to improve healthcare for trans people, we need to focus on improving healthcare for everyone.
Demand massive investment across many or all healthcare services.
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