‘ We need to continue the fight … let ’ s join the winter of solidarity ’

“We need to continue the fight … we can’t let our hard-won rights” be stripped away. That was the central message from UNISON president Andrea Egan today, when she addressed the union’s LGBT+ conference in Edinburgh. Saying that she had been privileged to attend the union’s trans ally training, she told delegates that the subject was “close to my own heart”, particularly since her nephew started to transition three years ago. “Education is key to countering transphobia,” she noted and said that she was hoping to ensure that all members of the national executive council also did the trans ally course. “We have a collective responsibility to encourage everyone to do the training … and to continue to fight for a ban on conversion therapy and to reform the gender recognition act.” More generally, the president said that the “Tories are on a renewed war path,” with services already struggling, with schools having to cut off the heating and “councils facing a £3billion shortfall. “In recent days, we’ve heard that two councils, Kent and Hampshire, fear going bankrupt,” she said, noting that all that adds to the lack of vital services for LGBT+ people. In a damning indictment of the state of the UK, she said that doctors are treating record numbers of malnourished patients, children are attending school with damp uniforms as their homes have nowhere to dry them, and head lice is rampant. “We need inflation-busting pay rises,” she sta...
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