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Mr B Randall v Trent College Ltd and others (England and Wales : Religion or Belief Discrimination)
21 Feb, 2023 · employment tribunal religion or belief discrimination ·
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Homophobic and transphobic beliefs, while being protected, will not prevent the termination of employment if sufficient policies are in place.
Case number: 2600288/2020
Cite as: [2023] UKET 2600288/2020
- http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKET/2023/2600288_2020.html
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/63fc8d90e90e0740d3cd6eb8/Mr_B_Randall_v_Trent_College_Limited___others_2600288_2020_Judgment.pdf
Added: 10 Apr, 2023
House of Commons Library: Hate Crime Statistics
2 Nov, 2022 · 1 min read · Crime statistics ·
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Crime statistics show an increase of 794% on the basis of being trans and an increase of 328% on the basis of sexual orientation in hate crimes in England and Wales between 2012 and 2022
Since April 2015, there have been spikes for racial or religiously aggravated offences not matched by their non-aggravated equivalent at the time of the EU referendum, 2017 terrorist attacks and 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. Though there were similar spikes in the following and preceding summers, the trends were similar for the two types of offences.
The figures for 2021/22 represented a 26% increase on the previous year. The increase in 2021/22 has partly been attributed to a greater number of crimes being recorded by the police in the year ending March 2022 in comparison to the previous year due to extensive restrictions put in place to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.

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- https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8537/
- https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8537/CBP-8537.pdf
Added: 14 May, 2023
Sex Assigned at Birth Ratio Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents in the United States
3 Aug, 2022 · rapid onset gender dysphoria trans youth ·
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Transgender youth are not suffering from a social contagion and that transgender people are not identifying as transgender in order to "trans away the gay" or escape homophobia.
Cite as: Jack L. Turban, Brett Dolotina, Dana King, Alex S. Keuroghlian; Sex Assigned at Birth Ratio Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents in the United States. Pediatrics August 2022; 150 (3): e2022056567. 10.1542/peds.2022-056567
The sex assigned at birth ratio of TGD adolescents in the United States does not appear to favor AFAB adolescents and should not be used to argue against the provision of gender-affirming medical care for TGD adolescents.
- https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2022-056567
Added: 10 Apr, 2023
Gender Identity 5 Years After Social Transition
13 Jul, 2022 · desistance gender dysphoria social transition transition trans youth ·
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97.5 percent of transgender and non-binary youth still identified as transgender and non-binary 5 years after social transition.
Cite as: Kristina R. Olson, Lily Durwood, Rachel Horton, Natalie M. Gallagher, Aaron Devor; Gender Identity 5 Years After Social Transition. Pediatrics August 2022; 150 (2): e2021056082. 10.1542/peds.2021-056082
More commonly, transgender youth who socially transitioned at early ages continued to identify that way.
- https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2021-056082
Added: 10 Apr, 2023
Ms S Free Miles v The Royal Veterinary College (England and Wales : Religion or Belief Discrimination)
14 Jun, 2022 · employment tribunal religion or belief discrimination ·
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A protected belief is no defence for breaking the law.
Case number: 2206733/2020
Cite as: [2022] UKET 2206733/2020
- https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/ms-s-free-miles-v-the-royal-veterinary-college-2206733-slash-2020
Added: 10 Apr, 2023
Conversion Therapy statements by professional bodies
1 Apr, 2022 · 3 min read · conversion therapy ·
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Collection of responses from medical bodies condeming the governments plans to not ban conversion therapy for trans people.
Many acts of conversion therapy amout to torture, inhuman or degrading tratment or punishment - violation of international and UK law.

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Added: 10 Apr, 2023
Reports on Gender: The Law of Inclusion & Practices of Exclusion
1 Apr, 2022 · equality un ·
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Limited education and cultural taboos are among the main factors that preclude LGBTI persons from achieving social mobility and increase their vulnerability to violence.
- https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/SexualOrientation/IESOGI/Reports_on_Gender_Final_Summary.pdf
Added: 10 Apr, 2023
Women and Equalities Committee: Recommendations to Reform of the Gender Recognition Act
21 Dec, 2021 · Gender Recognition Act Women and Equalities Committee ·
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"Women and Equalities Committee recommendations to UK government to reform the Gender Recognition Act.
Better guidance on the single-sex and separate-sex exceptions.
Develop a healthcare strategy for transgender and non-binary people within the next year.
Opening at least three new gender identity clinics.
Reducing the fee for a GRC to £5.
Review be conducted of whether the Gender Recognition Panel could be removed.
The requirement of a diagnosis for gender dysphoria in order to obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) should be removed.
The spousal consent provision should be removed.
Expressed concerned that the Government Equalities Office appears to have abandoned the LGBT Action Plan and we urge the Government to commit to continuing to implement the Plan across all departments. "
- https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5802/cmselect/cmwomeq/977/report.html
- https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5802/cmselect/cmwomeq/977/summary.html
Added: 10 Apr, 2023
Do Clinical Data from Transgender Adolescents Support the Phenomenon of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria”?
15 Nov, 2021 · rapid onset gender dysphoria gender dysphoria trans youth ·
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There is no clinical evidence to support the concept of "Rapid onset gender dysphoria" in adolescents.
Cite as: Greta R. Bauer et al, Do Clinical Data From Transgender Adolescents Support the Phenomenon of "Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria"?, The Journal of Pediatrics (2021). DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.11.020
We did not find support within a clinical population for a new etiologic phenomenon of rapid onset gender dysphoria during adolescence. Among adolescents under age 16 years seen in specialized gender clinics, associations between more recent gender knowledge and factors hypothesized to be involved in rapid onset gender dysphoria were either not statistically significant, or were in the opposite direction to what would be hypothesized. This putative phenomenon was posited based on survey data from a convenience sample of parents recruited from websites,10 and may represent the perceptions or experiences of those parents, rather than of adolescents, particularly those who may enter into clinical care. Similar analyses should be replicated using additional clinical and community data sources. Our finding of lower anxiety severity/impairment scores in adolescents with more recent gender knowledge suggests the potential for longstanding experiences of gender dysphoria (or their social complications) playing a role in development of anxiety, which could also be explored in future research.
Added: 10 Apr, 2023
Combating rising hate against LGBTI people in Europe
27 Sep, 2021 · 3 min read · PACE anti-trans ·
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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a report on the rise of hate against LGBTI people in Europe. The report, drafted by the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (CEN), calls on governments to take urgent action to combat hate crimes and discrimination against LGBTI people. Highlighting how the 'gender-critical' movement, along with a weak political response to such movements, has contributed to this escalation.
(52) [...] “We do not believe in self-identification”. Such rhetoric – which denies trans identities – is being used to roll back the rights of trans and non-binary people and is contributing to growing human rights problems.
[...] arguments defending freedom of expression have been – and are still being – used as a tool to justify transphobic rhetoric, further penalising and harming already marginalised trans people and communities.
The ‘gender-critical’ movement, which wrongly portrays trans rights as posing a particular threat to cisgender women and girls, has played a significant role in this process [...]
Trans healthcare is also being erroneously portrayed as a form of LGB conversion therapy.
Such anti-trans narratives, wrongly portraying trans rights as a threat to women and to others’ rights and insisting on binary categorisations of sex and gender [...]

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- https://assembly.coe.int/LifeRay/EGA/Pdf/TextesProvisoires/2021/20210921-RisingHateLGBTI-EN.pdf
- /post/organisations/2021/coe/20210921-RisingHateLGBTI-EN.pdf
Added: 11 Apr, 2023
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