Lily Madigan

Last updated

Lily Madigan
Born (1998-01-16) 16 January 1998 (age 25)
NationalityBritish
Political party Labour Party

Lily Madigan (born 16 January 1998) is an activist within the British Labour Party. [1] [2] 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. [3] [4] [5] Madigan's election as a Women's Officer was controversial within the Labour Party. [6] A complaint by Madigan alleging transphobia against women's officer Anne Ruzylo was not upheld, but led Ruzylo to stand down. [3] [7] [8] [9] In 2019, Madigan was elected the national women's officer for Labour Students. [10]

In 2016, Madigan took legal action while at St Simon Stock Catholic School, after the school made her wear a male uniform, continued to use her deadname and denied her access to female toilets. [11] [12] [13] [14]

Following Madigan's election as Women's Officer and around the time of Madigan's application to the Jo Cox Women in Leadership Programme, five critical articles were written about Madigan in The Times . [8] Madigan was rejected from the programme, but the articles in The Times were condemned by 55 activists involved in the programme who applauded the party for "supporting the principle that every woman" should get the chance to participate. Signatories included Labour MPs Rosie Duffield and Preet Gill. [15] These incidents led to Madigan receiving online abuse. [8]

Madigan attended the University for the Creative Arts, at which she ran the LGBTQ+ liberation group, as well as the women's liberation group, and was Campus Executive Officer. The students' union put out a solidarity statement with Madigan, commenting on the attention she received in the media. [16] In 2018, Madigan was listed as one of Teen Vogue 's "21 Under 21". [4]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stonewall (charity)</span> UK-based charity and advocacy group for LGBT rights

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Graham Linehan</span> Irish comedy writer and anti-transgender activist (born 1968)

Graham Linehan is an Irish comedy writer and anti-transgender activist. He created or co-created the sitcoms Father Ted (1995–1998), Black Books (2000–2004) and The IT Crowd (2006–2013), and he has written for shows including Count Arthur Strong, Brass Eye and The Fast Show. Early in his career, he partnered with the writer Arthur Mathews. Linehan has won five BAFTA awards, including Best Writer, Comedy, for The IT Crowd in 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rochester and Strood (UK Parliament constituency)</span> Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 2010 onwards

Rochester and Strood is a constituency in Kent represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Kelly Tolhurst, a Conservative. Since 2022, she has served as Government Deputy Chief Whip and Treasurer of the Household.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">LGBT rights in Thailand</span>

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Thailand have several but not all of the same rights as non-LGBT people. Both male and female same-sex sexual activity are legal in Thailand, and same-sex marriage rights within the nation are pending legalisation. About eight percent of the Thai population, five million people, are thought to be in the LGBT demographic.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Transgender rights movement</span>

The transgender rights movement is a movement to promote the legal status of transgender people and to eliminate discrimination and violence against transgender people regarding housing, employment, public accommodations, education, and health care. A major goal of transgender activism is to allow changes to identification documents to conform with a person's current gender identity without the need for gender-affirming surgery or any medical requirements, which is known as gender self-identification. It is part of the broader LGBT rights movements.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eli Erlick</span> American activist and writer (born 1995)

Eli Erlick is an American activist, writer, academic, trans woman and founder of the organization Trans Student Educational Resources.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paris Lees</span> British journalist and activist for transgender rights

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Abby Stein</span> American author, rabbi, activist speaker

Abby Chava Stein is an American transgender author, activist, blogger, model, speaker, and rabbi. She is the first openly transgender woman raised in a Hasidic community, and is a direct descendant of Hasidic Judaism's founder, the Baal Shem Tov. In 2015, she founded one of the first support groups nationwide for trans people with an Orthodox Jewish background who have left Orthodox Judaism.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Transgender rights in the United Kingdom</span>

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rosie Duffield</span> British politician

Rosemary Clare Duffield is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Canterbury since 2017.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tonia Antoniazzi</span> Welsh Labour politician, MP for Gower

Antonia Louise Antoniazzi is a British Labour Party politician. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gower at the 2017 general election.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hunter Schafer</span> American actress and model (born 1998)

Hunter Schafer is an American model, actress, and LGBTQ rights activist. She made her acting debut as transgender high school student Jules Vaughn in the HBO teen drama television series Euphoria (2019–present), which earned her nominations for a Shorty Award, an MTV Movie & TV Award, and a Dorian Award. In 2023 she portrayed Tigris Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.

Ashlee Marie Preston is an American media personality, journalist, activist, the first trans woman to become editor-in-chief of a national publication, Wear Your Voice Magazine, and the first openly trans person to run for state office in California. Originally from Kentucky, she moved to Los Angeles and began transitioning at age 19. She first rose to public attention after publicly confronting Caitlyn Jenner over her support for the Trump administration. She contributed her writing to a number of publications, and has been recognized for her activism by various media organizations and companies.

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.

"'We're being pressured into sex by some trans women'" is the original title of a BBC News article written by Caroline Lowbridge and published on 26 October 2021. Produced by the BBC's regional service in Nottingham, the article claims that lesbians are being pressured by transgender women into having sex with them. The article received widespread criticism among the LGBT community as transphobic. It drew particular attention for the inclusion of comments from American pornographic actress Lily Cade, who wrote a blog post after the article's publication calling for the "lynching" of high-profile trans women. Cade's comments were subsequently removed from the article.

The Women's Declaration International (WDI), formerly the Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC), is an international advocacy organization founded in the United Kingdom. WDI has published a Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights, and has developed model legislation to restrict transgender rights that has been used in state legislatures in the United States. The organization has been described as gender-critical, anti-trans, anti-gender, trans-exclusionary, trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF), and as a hate group, and in several countries the group has been linked to the far right. It has been noted by Southern Poverty Law Center as being part of an "anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network".

References

  1. ↑ "Transgender Schoolgirl Threatened With Suspension For Wearing Female Clothes". HuffPost UK. 15 October 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  2. ↑ LGBTQ+ community members share messages and support for Lesbian Visibility Day , Independent.ie, 23 November 2019
  3. 1 2 "Lily Madigan: I want to be Labour's first transgender MP". BBC Newsbeat. 1 December 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  4. 1 2 Diavolo, Lucy (5 November 2018). "21 Under 21: Lily Madigan's Political Moxie Is Fueled by Bigots' Attention". Teen Vogue . Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  5. ↑ Bannerman, Lucy (20 November 2017). "Trans teenager Lily Madigan voted in as a Labour women's officer". The Times . Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  6. ↑ "UK transgender rights row intensifies as book fair is cancelled". The Guardian. 26 November 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "Lily Madigan: The Labour women's officer aiming to becoming Britain's first transgender MP". TalkRadio.com. 8 December 2017. Archived from the original on 14 December 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  8. 1 2 3 Butterworth, Benjamin (5 December 2017). "Trans teen Lily Madigan begs the media and anti-trans activists to stop attacking her". PinkNews. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  9. ↑ "Lily Madigan: I'm a transgender teen agitator; I make an ideal Labour Women's Officer". The Times. 26 November 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  10. ↑ "Rania Ramli elected Labour Students chair as Corbynsceptics sweep to victory". LabourList. 7 March 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  11. ↑ Bereford, Meka (15 October 2016). "School threatens to suspend trans student for wearing female uniform". PinkNews. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  12. ↑ "Maidstone transgender teen Lily Madigan begins treatment". BBC News. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  13. ↑ Oppenheim, Maya (24 February 2018). "Lily Madigan: Meet the woman who wants to be Labour's first transgender MP" . The Independent . Archived from the original on 14 June 2022. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  14. ↑ "Transgender teenager begins treatment". BBC News. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  15. ↑ "Jo Cox women's leadership scheme rebukes The Times over attacks on transgender teen". PinkNews. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  16. ↑ "An open letter in solidarity with Lily Madigan". UCA Students' Union. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.