THE Ipsos LGBT+ Pride 2023 study, which polled over 22,000 respondents, revealed that while most Britons agree that trans people experience discrimination, opinions on the support for treatment that is gender-affirming are less uniform.
Ipsos conducted interviews with a total of 22,514 persons in 30 different countries between February 17 and March 3, 2023.
Every continent was represented, with Africa being noticeably under-represented. The UK sample was sufficiently large to be regarded as representative of the overall populace.
This comes just after the most recent rating by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Association revealed that the UK has fallen to 17th position in terms of its acceptance of queer individuals.
In terms of attitudes towards anti-trans discrimination, 64 per cent of Brits think that trans individuals experience moderate to severe discrimination in their societies.
This is compared to the 19 per cent who disagree. Notably, this occurs at a time when hate crimes motivated by transphobia are growing quickly.
In general, the UK respondents’ support for pro-trans measures was among the lowest in the countries surveyed.
POLITICIANS must be careful how they speak about transgender individuals to avoid them being “targeted in an inappropriate way,” according to a minister.
When discussing a petition from 110,000 individuals asking for the Equality Act to be revised so that the terms “man” and “woman” officially denote biological sex and not “sex as modified by a Gender Recognition Certificate,” Minister for Women Maria Caulfield urged MPs to use language carefully.
Caulfield told the Westminster Hall debate: “We do have to be careful that we are making assumptions that one of the reasons that women want single sex space is because they feel of a predatory nature of trans people.
“That isn’t the case. For the vast majority of women, they just want to be with other women.
“But we do need to be mindful of our language and tone so that trans communities do not feel they are being given labels or targeted in an inappropriate way.”
The proposed change would “remove legal protections for trans people, an already marginalised group,” according to the competing petition, which has over 139,000 signatures.
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