Caroline Dinenage: The Government is dedicated to improving the lives of transgender people and ensuring that barriers to their success are removed from society. This is reflected in the Government response to the Women and Equality Select Committee inquiry into transgender equality, where we set out a range of initiatives to improve the lives of transgender people. This includes improving the way people are...
Jo Swinson: The Government is committed to tackling transphobia and raising awareness of transgender issues. The Government Equalities Office regularly meets representatives of the transgender community to understand their key concerns, and we raise awareness of transgender issues across Government. On 20 November this year, as we have previously, the Government Equalities Office flew the rainbow flag...
Jo Swinson: holding answer 31 January 2013 Our action plan, Working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality: Moving Forward, published in March 2011, included a series of commitments to advance transgender equality. But in recognition of the distinct challenges that transgender people can face, we published the first ever action plan for transgender equality, Advancing Transgender Equality:...
Baroness Northover: The Government is strongly committed to advancing equality for transgender people and ending discrimination in the workplace. The Equality Act 2010 provides protection from discrimination because of gender reassignment in employment. In March 2011 the Government published Working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality: Moving Forward; and in December 2011 Advancing transgender...
Chris Elmore: ...Friend. His contributions in the House are always of interest and I am glad that he has been able to raise that important point. The UK, like every other nation, has a long way to go to ensure that transgender people are safe from violent crime. A start would be to ensure that everybody feels safe and secure in reporting a crime of which they are the victim. Organisations such as Stonewall...
Lynne Featherstone: The Government have published “Working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGB and T) Equality”. This ambitious work plan outlines actions Government will take to advance LGB and T equality. In particular, it commits Government to work with transgender groups to develop a programme of specific action for transgender equality and to publish this action plan in 2011. Between my...
Lynne Featherstone: This Government are committed to supporting transgender equality. On 18 June the Prime Minister launched Working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality, which sets out a clear programme of work to combat homophobia and transphobia. In it we give a clear commitment to work with transgender groups to develop a Government Action Plan on Transgender Equality, which we will publish...
Victoria Atkins: The Ministry of Justice and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) approach to managing transgender offenders is set out in the policy framework ‘The Care and Management of Individuals who are Transgender’. Prisoners are allocated to prisons initially according to their legal gender, which for the vast majority will be their sex recorded at birth. We are not obliged to...
...and Disorder Act 1998 is amended as follows. (2) For the first cross-heading under Part II, substitute ‘Offences aggravated on the grounds of race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity: England and Wales’. (3) In section 28— (a) for the heading, substitute ‘Meaning of “aggravated on the grounds of race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or...
Michael Martin: With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: New clause 14— Hatred against persons on transgender grounds— 'The Public Order Act 1986 (c. 64) is amended in accordance with Schedule [Hatred against persons on transgender grounds] to this Act, which creates offences involving stirring up hatred against persons on transgender grounds.'. New clause 15— Increase in sentences...
Lynne Featherstone: As I have already explained to the hon. Lady, we are taking formal Government routes, too. Indeed, we will proceed with more formal routes and properly consult a wide range of transgender groups. The new clause is impractical and fails to recognise its impact on transgendered people. It asks that ID cards that have been issued to transgendered people remain valid until expiry or until another...
Amendment 176ZZA Moved by Lord McNally 176ZZA: After Clause 61, insert the following new Clause- "Sentencing where there is aggravation related to transgender identity (1) The Criminal Justice Act 2003 is amended as follows. (2) Section 146 (increase in sentence for aggravation related to disability or sexual orientation) is amended as follows. (3) In the heading, for "or sexual orientation"...
Norman Baker: Hate crime, including that committed against transgender people, is an issue the Government takes very seriously. One of our coalition commitments was to improve the recording of such crimes, and as a result, we know that 361 transgender hate crimes were recorded by police forces in England and Wales in 2012/13. However, we also know that transgender hate crimes in particular are...
Lucy Frazer: ...-sentence report (PSR) writers must consider requesting a full adjournment for the preparation of a PSR where a custodial sentence outcome appears likely, and an offender discloses that they are transgender, on the basis that transgender people may have more complex needs. This guidance is included in the Equal Treatment Bench Book chapter on transgender, published by the Judicial Office....
Lord Wolfson of Tredegar: Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) record the legal (rather than biological) gender of prisoners. For transgender prisoners with gender recognition certificates (GRCs), this is in line with the Gender Recognition Act 2004. Where required for statistical purposes, data on the characteristic of gender reassignment is obtained via a separate matching exercise, using information...
Lord Keen of Elie: ...who self-identify as a female in the women’s estate. Between 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2019, there were 97 sexual assaults in the women’s estate overall and 7 of these assaults involved a transgender prisoner. Out of those 7 incidents, there were 6 sexual assaults where a transgender prisoner was recorded as the assailant or suspected assailant. In one incident the transgender...
Lord Paddick: ...to minimise are already minimal, and that other risks that need to be managed are not covered by this amendment. The amendment seeks to amend the Gender Recognition Act to reduce the risk that transgender prisoners present to others. This is neither necessary nor desirable for the following reasons. First, there are very few transgender prisoners. In a data collection exercise between...
Crispin Blunt: The Ministry of Justice does not hold information on the number of transgender people who are serving custodial sentences. There are difficulties in collecting information on the numbers of transgender prisoners. It would require a prisoner to voluntarily provide information on their gender history, as it would not always be possible for a prison to identify a transgender person by any other...
Jonathan Bell: Transgender is recognised by OFMDFM as a gender issue. Transgender people, whose gender identity conflicts with their biological sex, face lifelong challenges such as victimisation, including physical and psychological abuse and increased risk of suicide. Transgender issues were identified as a gap, as the Member correctly points out, in the current strategy document, and representatives...
Lord Nash: On the 7th July 2016 the Government responded to the Women and Equalities Select Committee inquiry on transgender equality. In this, we committed to publishing an update on progress against “Working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality: Moving Forward (2011)”; and “Advancing transgender equality: a plan for action (2011)”. The Government also committed to producing a...
