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‘Hostile environment’: Truss and Badenoch criticised as three LGBT advisers quit

Jayne Ozanne was the first to resign from the government’s LGBT advisory panel, saying equalities ministers Liz Truss and Kemi Badenoch were ignorant on key issues.

Henry Goodwin by Henry Goodwin
2021-03-11 10:31
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Liz Truss and Kemi Badenoch have been accused of vilifying the trans community by a government LGBT adviser who – along with two colleagues – quit their posts, accusing ministers of creating a “hostile environment” for LGBT people.

Jayne Ozanne resigned from the government’s LGBT advisory panel on Wednesday, criticising equalities ministers Liz Truss and Kemi Badenoch for being ignorant on key issues.

She was followed by James Morton, a manager at the Scottish Trans Alliance, who said he had been “very concerned for serval months that Liz Truss and her junior ministers are not committed to LGBT equality”.

“It doesn’t appear that they’re doing anything useful or helpful for trans people, in terms of government policy,” he added.

It emerged on Thursday that Ellen Murray had also quit the panel, after reportedly accusing the government of “hostility” towards LGBT people.

'I felt we weren't being listened to.'

Former Equalities adviser @JayneOzanne resigned from her post after a lack of a ban on conversion therapy.

She says the UK government has created a 'hostile environment' for LGBT+ people.

Watch GMB 👉 https://t.co/6iQ6ebeOEQ pic.twitter.com/aDeet3mnCn

— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) March 11, 2021

‘Ministers for inequality’

Ozanne, who describes herself as a gay evangelical Christian, said that long-standing Tory pledges to take action to end the controversial practice of conversion therapy only referred to sexuality and not gender identity.

“Sadly there has been never any mention of protecting our trans friends who are twice as likely to be offered and to be forced to go through conversion therapy,” she told Good Morning Britain.

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“I fear it’s this government’s attitude to the trans community that is right at the heart of this. They need to embrace the trans community and protect them rather than vilify them which, I’m afraid, both Liz Truss and Kemi Badenoch seem committed to doing.”

In an earlier interview with ITV, she revealed Truss and Badenoch were known in the LGBT community as the “ministers for inequality” – and said she had become “increasingly concerned about what is seen to be a hostile environment for LGBT people among this administration”.

Tory MP Caroline Nokes, who chairs the Commons Women and Equalities Select Committee, said she was “disappointed” the government was “rowing back” on legislation to ban conversion therapy.

“Listening to @JayneOzanne on @GMB this morning about her experience of so-called conversion therapy,” she wrote on Twitter. “I am so disappointed that government rowing back from legislating to ban it, last July we were given the impression it would be done.”

Listening to @JayneOzanne on @GMB this morning about her experience of so-called conversion therapy. I am so disappointed that Government rowing back from legislating to ban it, last July we were given the impression it would be done.

— Caroline Nokes MP (@carolinenokes) March 11, 2021

‘Deep concern’

The high-profile resignations came as a group of nearly 20 LGBT+ organisations have reportedly written to Badenoch to express their “deep concern” at her response to calls to ban conversion therapy.

Signatories to the letter – co-ordinated by Ozanne and including campaigner Peter Tatchell and the organisation Stonewall – accused the minister of inaction after the Conservative Party’s pledge in 2018 to eradicate the controversial therapy.

It is sad Jayne felt she had to resign. The trust and support of the LGBT+ community cannot be taken for granted. We are calling for protection for *all* lesbian, gay, bi and trans people – and nothing less than a legal ban on conversion therapy will do. https://t.co/pDhOsAIsZ7

— Stonewall (@stonewalluk) March 10, 2021

They said they “fail to understand why – after nearly 1,000 days – coming forward with meaningful legislation is taking so much time”.

The BBC reported that the signatories also wrote that they were “extremely troubled” after the minister made no mention during the debate of protection for trans people, despite this group being “the most likely to be at risk”.

A government spokesman said on Wednesday: “The Government is committed to building a country in which everyone, no matter their sexuality, race or religion, is free to live their lives as they choose.

“We have repeatedly made clear that we will take action to end conversion therapy and we are working to bring forward plans to do so shortly.”

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