Blog: Why reform of the Gender Recognition Act is essential

Just for a little while during lockdown, the cacophony from UK’s anti-trans media quietened. A few weeks without a scare-mongering headline or ill-informed comment piece was a little respite for a community battle weary from the ceaseless task of defending the most human of rights – our right to be valid, our right to be men, to be women or to be free from the binary.
Then came along JK Rowling (15 million Twitter followers) and government minister Liz Truss. What would unite the Har