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Please help protect trans people’s right to safety. Please donate to help Good Law Project to defend the rights to safety that my colleagues and I worked to create and have enjoyed for twenty years. There is a really serious attempt to strip that protection away and I’m frankly too old to fight again.

https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/help-protect-trans-peoples-right-to-safety/

CROWDFUNDER Help protect trans people's right to safety What if the ground shifted under your feet? What if a law you'd been relying on for 20 years was under threat and you had no say? What if a campaign was making the case for a change that increased the risk you'd suffer harassment, discrimination and maybe even violence - and you were shut out of the room? We all deserve to live free from discrimination and harassment. That's not just a matter of courtesy. It's a set of protections enshrined in law. In 2004, the Gender Recognition Act was introduced as a safeguard for many trans people to be able to live freely, authentically and openly. It gave trans people the right to legally change their sex. In 2010, the Equality Act codified and updated the UK's existing equality law framework, maintaining the protections in equality law against harassment, discrimination and violence that already protected trans people as men and women. …go to site for remainder
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