Amelia Hansford

Alastair Campbell has claimed senior BBC officials are “in the JK Rowling camp” when it comes to trans rights, following claims the organisation has a ‘pro-trans’ bias. The 68-year-old journalist and former Labour strategist claimed he has often had “stand-up rows” with a large portion of the broadcaster’s senior staff, who he says share ‘gender-critical’ views. It comes after BBC director general Tim Davie resigned over a leaked internal memo accusing the BBC of misleading viewers by editing a speech by US president Donald Trump. Ex-BBC advisor Michael Prescott also claimed in the memo that the BBC was pushing a […]

New research has revealed that transphobia in the UK has left 84 per cent of trans people feeling unsafe. The YouGov poll, commissioned by the Good Law Project and published last week, revealed that almost two-thirds of transgender and non-binary people in the country had been verbally abused in public, and almost 25 per cent had suffered physical violence. Fifty-nine per cent of trans people also reported facing barriers in accessing general NHS care. Conducted in the wake of the UK Supreme Court’s judgement which determined that the 2010 Equality Act’s definition of a woman related to biological sex only, […]

The Polari Prize has announced it will “pause” its 2025 awards competition following controversy over its inclusion of author and self-proclaimed ‘TERF’ John Boyne in its long list. In a statement issued on Monday (18 August), organisers of the LGBTQ+ writing award confirmed that this year’s proceedings had been put on hold in the wake of the backlash, which has seen other nominated authors withdraw from the competition. Public backlash was ignited earlier this month after the Polari Prize included Earth, the latest novel from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas author Boyne, on its long list. In July, Boyne described himself as a “TERF” – […]

More than half of citizens in China believe LGBTQ+ people should be treated with dignity, which flies in the face of some of the country’s restrictive laws. Responding to a survey on attitudes towards LGBTQ+ people in China, 53 per cent said queer people should be accepted in society. A similar number felt same-sex couples should be able to marry, while 46 per cent said they would personally attend a same-sex wedding. 48 per cent believed gay couples would make capable parents. Published by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, the study also showed that respondents who knew […]

Europe’s top human rights commissioner has urged the Slovak Republic to reconsider a bill that would strip legal recognition of trans people from law. Proposed amendments to Slovakia’s Constitution would allow the central-European country to disregard international human rights laws to preserve its “national identity” and to answer what it calls “fundamental cultural-ethical questions.” One of the proposed amendments that attempts to answer these questions is a declaration that recognises “only the sex of male and female,” essentially denying that trans, non-binary, or intersex people exist.  Another amendment, if passed, would restrict adoption rights to only allow married heterosexual couples […]