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Title: Stonewall's Ruth Hunt Explains Why Its Drive To Include Transgender Rights Didn'
Post by: stephaniec on December 18, 2015, 02:30:20 AM
Stonewall's Ruth Hunt Explains Why Its Drive To Include Transgender Rights Didn't Happen Until Now

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/12/18/stonewall-transgender-rights_n_8611368.html

The Huffington Post/By Jack Sommers    12/18/2015

""We get beaten up by the same people" is the campaigner Helen Belcher's blunt wording of why gay and bisexual activists should work with transgender people. But the relationship has not always been easy. Britain's largest gay rights charity admitted earlier this year it had "cocked up" for not representing the 'T' aspect of LGBT, meaning transgender."