As quick as a flash Stephen Morgan writes to Liz Truss Continue Reading Stephen Morgan The MP For Portsmouth South Supports Trans Rights
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Steph Richards (she/her) is a 74-year-old human rights activist, intersectional feminist, and recipient of a 2023 Inspirational Women of Portsmouth Award. Holding a Gender Recognition Certificate and "post op", she is the founder and Chair of Translucent.Org.UK, which was named LGBT Organisation of the Year at the 2022 National Diversity Awards. Steph was also shortlisted as a Positive Role Model for Gender at the 2025 National Diversity Awards. Steph’s leadership spans political, healthcare, and community advocacy. She served as the Women’s and LGBT Officer for the Portsmouth Labour Party (2021–2024), co-founded the Women’s Action Network (Portsmouth), and is a former CEO of a women’s health charity. A passionate champion for women's healthcare, she possesses extensive expertise in baby loss awareness, actively defends UK abortion rights and is a member of "Women Against the Far-Right". Calling out VAWG, Steph has researched and written about 125 women and girls killed by a man. A prominent voice in national media and debate, Steph has been featured live on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Anti Social, Good Morning Britain, Times Radio, LBC, GB News, and Channel 4 News. In 2023, she debated trans human rights alongside Harvard biologist Dr. Carole Hooven at a prominent US university event.
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In Pride Month, Despite The Setbacks – Be Proud To Be Trans! Continue Reading Opinion. Do Not Get Down… Get Proud!
Coming out is far from easy for a transgender person, and I would compare it to coming out as a gay person forty years ago. Even today, of course, some gay people in the UK (for a variety of reasons) cannot come out even though society, in general, accepts gay people as a norm. Julia Serano (my favourite trans author) suggests it is easier to come out FTM than MTF. I tend to agree with the points in her book “Whipping Girl” that some men detest “former men” who reject the “dominate gender” and that some women can’t understand…
Many MP’s from all sides of the political spectrum have called out to Liz Truss in regards to her statement on the 22nd of April.But surely no one has done it better than Zarah Sultana the Labour MP who represents Coventry South. I can only describe her response as perfect! My research suggests trans suicide rates are higher than what she quoted but perhaps Zarah aired on the side of caution so to ensure no TERF group could point the finger and say what she was saying was not accurate. On receipt of her letter surely Liz Truss can not ignore…
If I had sat up all night I could not have written a better letter Continue Reading 10th June 2020 Zarah Sultana; MP For Coventry South And Her Perfect Letter.
Womens places belong to both cis and trans women. Continue Reading Stephen Morgan MP For Portsmouth South Calls Out To Liz Truss
The Liz Truss speech on the 22nd of April has, of course, sent a tidal wave of despair around the trans and allies’ communities, but the definition of ‘women’s places’ has still to be defined.Now to be fair, I can understand some of the TERFS concerns. If my daughter were in prison, I would be concerned if some nut had worked his way into a female jail saying he was a trans woman when he was not. And the same would apply in a women’s refuge. Some men abuse women, and in these circumstances, it is correct that a woman…
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Is three job Liz Truss really able to handle all of her workload? Continue Reading Opinion: Boris, Don’t Cis and Trans Women Deserve Better Than This?
There has been lots of “bad press” against trans women prisoners in recent months. The Daily Mail, (and others) have been very vocal on this issue. It started with Rory Stewart, once a Tory minister but who was subsequently expelled from the Conservative party saying that trans woman prisoners had attacked prison officers. On the 22nd of April 2020 Baroness Mc Donagh from the House of Lords asked a written question (HL3198) saying this:To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many sexual assaults have been carried out by trans prisoners against women prisoners and prison officers in prisons in each year since…
