Delegates pledge to fight back against rising tide of transphobia

UNISON’s LGBT+ conference opened in Brighton this morning, and on Transgender Day of Remembrance, at the end of Transgender Awareness Week, the first day’s business was dominated by the need to fight back against increasingly strident transphobia, including campaigns that are being funded by the far right.
Delegates first watched a video presentation from Francia Blanco, the international representative for SINTRADOTRANS, a union of transgender domestic workers in Nicaragua, who spok