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Who did Truss meet — and when did she meet them?
In the last few days the LGBT Press has highlighted a failure by the Equalities Minister to give a straight answer to the question of who she has spoken with about reform of the Gender Recognition Act. In the absence of such an answer suspicion is growing that she has not been straight with the trans community.
This is not the easiest of pieces to write because while the issue is important, it is also one that I seem to have been dragged into, secondhand, through a little bit of over-enthusiastic reporting in Pink News.
Let’s start with the allegation. According to Pink News, Equalities Minister, Liz Truss was urged to ‘come clean’ after “LGBT+ groups deny meeting the minister to discuss gender law reform”.
Quite right, too! And here comes that awkward cross-over.
Because I now have the honour of chairing Trans Media Watch (TMW), one of the groups specifically referenced in the article as not met with, despite Ministerial claims to the contrary. A number of individuals from TMW have contributed to the consultation at various stages. There is no indication that they were invited along as members of TMW, or because they are just generally acknowledged to hold some…
