This Council Resolves:
- To recognise and affirm trans men are men, trans women are women,
non-binary and genderqueer people's genders are valid, and trans rights
are human rights.
- Facilitate and strongly encourage all council staff and Councillors to
attend training to learn about the challenges faced by trans people.
- Fly the trans flag on the International Trans Day of Visibility (31st
March), International Non-Binary People's Day (14th July) and Trans Day
of Remembrance (20th November)
- Write to the Secretary of State for Health and Adult Social Care to call
for the government to:
· Provide the funding and resources necessary to increase the
capacity of and improve access to trans and non-binary
healthcare, including expanding gender identity services and
reducing waiting times.
· Develop strategies to recruit more clinicians to become gender
identity specialists across all relevant disciplines and train staff
across the NHS on issues affecting trans and non-binary people.
· Commit to effectively and regularly consulting trans and nonbinary
people and groups in the design and delivery of trans and
non-binary healthcare.
- To work with all four Bristol MPs to help coordinate joint cross-party
initiatives within parliament to bring forward a full ban on conversion
therapy that includes gender identity.
- To continue supporting the improvement of services in Bristol to be
fully accessible to trans and non-binary people, working with recognised
trans-inclusive services and not taking advice from or awarding contracts
to organisations that promote an anti-trans agenda or propaganda.
- Conduct an audit of Council services to ensure they are as accessible as
possible to trans and non-binary people.
- Look into what we can do as a Council as an employer to support
further those who identify as trans and non-binary and to protect them
from transphobic harassment within their roles.
- To ensure there are accessible gender-neutral toilet facilities throughout
the City (including within Council buildings) and to ensure there are
menstrual care dispensers and sanitary bins in all toilets, regardless of
gender. This includes municipal-run toilets and toilet facilities under its
Full Council – Agenda
‘Community Toilet Scheme’.
10. Encourage schools to follow expert legal guidance outlined by the
Good Law Project. That it will consider publishing a ‘Trans Inclusion
Toolkit’ for our schools (as available in Brighton). That it will act on any
known instances of anti-trans literature or propaganda being sent into our
schools. That it recognises that beliefs such as that of ‘gender critical’ can
be protected, however this does not provide the right to express those
beliefs and will not allow this as a lever for hate speech and bullying in the
school estate.
11. To write to the Home Secretary calling for:
● An action plan on tackling LGBTQIA+ Hate Crimes within the UK.
● Prevented deportation of LGBTQIA+ refugees to Rwanda and a
review into applications for LGBTQIA+ refugees claiming asylum
status within the UK.