Pride will be taking over the streets for the 51st time today, and this year 'trans joy' will be front and centre 🏳️⚧️ Remember, 'there's no Pride without the T.'
Protesters draped in rainbow Pride and trans flags in Soho Christopher says: ‘We realised that we as a community, we as a platform and as an event, needed to lend our allyship to the trans community.
‘So hence we are taking this on and stepping up with our trans community this year, as we do every year, but putting specific focus on them – to highlight the issues that they continue to experience and show that they’ll never be alone in terms of having those allies. ‘I think it’s important that we put most of our focus at this time on the trans community. They’re a community that is at their weakest point. They’re a marginalised community within a community.’Stonewall’s most recent report on the challenges trans people have to deal with looked at the year leading up to January 2018, and found two in five trans people had experienced a hate crime or incident.
The largest LGBTQI+ rights organisation in Europe also discovered half of the 800 trans and non-binary people they questioned felt they had to hide who they were in the workplace, often by dressing differently to their identities. This was the state of things for trans people living in the UK five years ago, and the community ‘continues to come under attack’ today, Christopher said.Organisers believe ‘Pride is a protest and a celebration’ In May, the Equality and Human Rights Commission issued the first guidance of its kind on the merits of
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