On March 30 at 3 am, the Conservative Member of Parliament Jamie Wallis came out as a trans person.
He explained that recent traumas, including being blackmailed over his gender identity and raped, had recently prompted him to share his true self with the world.
The whole house stands with you, and we will give you the support you need to live as yourself, Boris Johnson said in the House of Commons on Wednesday.
—Jamie Wallis MP (@JamieWallisMP) March 30, 2022
Activists and academics told Insider that they were not hopeful that this would be possible in a country led by Prime Minister Johnson.
On the International Transgender Day of Visibility, the government reversed its commitment to ban conversion therapy for trans and non-binary people. The decision was described asappalling by the LGBT Foundation.
Lui Asquith, the Director of Legal and Policy at Mermaids, a UK charity working to support trans children and teenagers, told Insider that it was an extraordinary moment. We are working with an anti-gender government. This is a very dark day for the LGBT community.
The prime minister's position was to "ostracise" trans people, according to a Conservative MP in Boris Johnson's government.
—LGBT Foundation (@LGBTfdn) April 1, 2022
The UK's first trans MP would not be a turning point for the government without seeing concrete action from the government.
She said the relationship with gender was expressed in a 48 hour news cycle in which Boris Johnson cracked jokes about trans people at a dinner party, a trans MP came out, and then a leaked document showed the repeal of conversion therapy legislation.
The former council candidate for the Labour party told Insider that he was not optimistic about the changing attitudes towards trans rights.
The solidarity for the trans community will last a couple of days.
He is concerned for Jamie's mental health, just knowing what some of these politicians are like, and how some of them are likely going to throw him under the bus for the sake of a vox pop.
Almost half of trans people have considered suicide.
The rate at which trans people are outed when their identity is revealed without their consent is part of what is so damaging to trans people's mental health.
In his coming-out statement, he revealed that someone had blackmailed him, told his father about his gender dysphoria, and demanded $500,000 for their silence.
Finn Mackay, a senior sociology lecturer at the University of the West of England, said that Johnson's government had fanned the flames of this culture war, making for a challenging environment for LGBTQ people in the UK.
The government helped scrutinize focus on trans people who are just trying to get on with their lives.
There is a lot of pessimism about the direction of the trans narrative, but there are identifiable political allies.
The UK has been involved in a debate over trans rights for a long time.
On International Women's Day, a debate in the House of Commons was hijacked from a discussion on women who have lost their lives to femicide, and women in Ukraine at particular risk from war.
Rapes committed by men who present themselves as women were highlighted by Sir Bernard.
Speaking in the House of Commons on March 23, Prime Minister Johnson said that when people want to make a transition in their lives that they should be treated with the maximum possible generosity and respect.
—Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) March 19, 2022
The Conservatives, lagging in the polls, are looking for ways to regain the lead from the Labour party, led by Sir Keir Starmer. Targeting gender-critical issues, identity debates, and woke-ism is a way to fire up the party's base.
The Conservative MPs gathered for a dinner in central London. Keir Starmer said that people were assigned female or male at birth, and Johnson joked about it. Reports say that Wallis was in the room.
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