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Title: Putting the T into LGBT
Post by: stephaniec on September 20, 2015, 04:29:16 PM
Putting the T into LGBT

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/13772062.Putting_the_T_into_LGBT/

Swindon Advertiser/Marion Sauvebois / 10:03 Sunday 20 September 2015 / News

"AFTER decades spent living in fear, Swindon's transgender community has broken its silence in a bid, at last, to put the T in LGBT.

"WE want to be treated like human beings," declares Jeremy Farmer rising from his seat, his fellow 'trans' activists nodding in agreement.

While great strides have been achieved in championing lesbian, gay and bisexual rights in recent years, the transgender community has remained widely marginalised from society and even, to a lesser extent, within the LGBT movement itself. "