Stonewall Equality Limited,trading as Stonewall,is a lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights charity in the United Kingdom. It is the largest LGBT rights organisation in Europe.
LGBT+ Labour,the Labour Campaign for Lesbian,Gay,Bisexual and Transgender Rights,is a socialist society related to the Labour Party in the United Kingdom. Originally called the Gay Labour Group,the purpose of this organisation is to campaign within the Labour Party and wider Labour movement to promote the rights of lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people,and to encourage members of the LGBT community to support the Labour Party.
Christine Burns is a British political activist best known for her work with Press for Change and,more recently,as an internationally recognised health adviser. Burns was awarded an MBE in 2005 in recognition of her work representing transgender people. In 2011,she ranked 35th on the Independent on Sunday's annual Pink List of influential lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender people in the United Kingdom.
Sarah Brown is a transgender activist and former Liberal Democrat politician. She was the Cambridge City Councillor for Petersfield ward between 2010 and 2014,serving as Executive Councillor for Community Wellbeing since 2013 and served as a member of the LGBT+ Liberal Democrats executive. She is a trans woman and,for several years,was the only openly transgender elected politician in the UK. In 2011,she appeared on the Independent on Sunday "Pink List" as the 28th most influential LGBT person in the UK,dropping to 34th in the 2012 list,but rising again to 27th in the 2013 list.
Paris Lees is an English author,journalist,presenter and campaigner. She topped The Independent on Sunday's 2013 Pink List,came second in the 2014 Rainbow List,and was awarded the Positive Role Model Award for LGBT in the 2012 National Diversity Awards. Lees is the first trans columnist at Vogue and was the first trans woman to present shows on BBC Radio 1 and Channel 4. Her first book,What It Feels Like For a Girl,was published by Penguin in 2021.
Lily Madigan is an activist within the British Labour Party. She was the first openly trans woman to hold the position of Constituency Labour Party Women's Officer,having been elected in November 2017 by the Labour Party in the constituency Rochester and Strood. Madigan's election as a Women's Officer was controversial within the Labour Party. A complaint by Madigan alleging transphobia against women's officer Anne Ruzylo was not upheld,but led Ruzylo to stand down. In 2019,Madigan was elected the national women's officer for Labour Students.
Julia Gasper is an English independent academic specialising in early modern literature,and a right-wing political activist affiliated with the English Democrats. She formerly belonged to the UK Independence Party (UKIP). A vociferous critic of LGBT rights,she has generated controversy with comments widely deemed homophobic and transphobic.
Kirsty Blackman is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen North since 2015.
Angela Crawley is a Scottish National Party politician. She was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lanark and Hamilton East at the 2015 general election. Crawley served as the SNP Shadow Attorney General from 2021 to 2022. She was previously the SNP spokesperson for Women and Equalities and a member of the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee.
Joanna Catherine Cherry is a Scottish politician and lawyer serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh South West since 2015. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),she was the party's Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice in the House of Commons from 2015 to 2021.
Joanne Leung Wing-yan is the first openly transgender politician in Hong Kong.
Transgender rights in the United Kingdom have varied significantly over time,with the British transgender community facing ongoing challenges not experienced by cisgender (cis) Britons. These include various laws and public attitudes in regards to identity documents,as well as anti-discrimination measures used by or pertaining to transgender people,in the areas of employment,education,housing and social services,amongst others.
Rosemary Clare Duffield is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Canterbury since 2017.
Zoe O'Connell is a British Liberal Democrat politician,most notable for being a prominent campaigner for transgender rights.
Claire Darke is a British Labour Party politician,who served as the Mayor of Wolverhampton. She is Councillor for Park Ward and was first elected in 2008 as a Liberal Democrat. She is the longest continuously serving female Mayor of Wolverhampton.
The following is a timeline of transgender history. Transgender history dates back to the first recorded instances of transgender individuals in ancient civilizations. However,the word transgenderism did not exist until 1965 when coined by psychiatrist John F. Oliven of Columbia University in his 1965 reference work Sexual Hygiene and Pathology;the timeline includes events and personalities that may be viewed as transgender in the broadest sense,including third gender and other gender-variant behavior,including ancient or modern precursors from the historical record.
The LGB Alliance is a British nonprofit advocacy group founded in 2019,in opposition to the policies of LGBT rights charity Stonewall on transgender issues. Its founders are Bev Jackson,Kate Harris,Allison Bailey,Malcolm Clark and Ann Sinnott. The organization has said that lesbians are facing "extinction" because of the "disproportionate" focus on transgender identities in schools.
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