Lorelai

What were your thoughts on the GRR Bill?

“What we got on the table and what we have campaigned for is very different. Trans activists, over the years have always been advocating for self-identification, the right to self-identify as male, female, non-binary. But the Scottish Government watered it down. We're not even getting the right of self-identification, per se, we're just getting it a little bit easier. We still have to apply for a gender recognition certificate, but it's much more easier.”

How did you feel when the bill was vetoed by the UK Government?

“Now what we are getting is Rishi Sunak’s government blocking it with the section 35 order, that's kind of fucked up. The Tories are inherently transphobic. What we were getting was mere scraps. And even then, you're denying us that, that shows how much you hate us that even that one shred of autonomy we would have had over our lives you are not giving us. I personally feel it is a very exhausting state, we fought so long and hard to at least get some sort of recognition and yet we’re still being denied.”