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Labour council ‘breaking law’ after hoisting pro-trans flag

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IwantToRetire · 30/06/2025 18:42

A council has been accused of breaking the law after erecting a trans-inclusive Pride flag outside its town hall, The Telegraph can reveal.
Hackney London Borough Council has hoisted the Pride flag each February and July since summer 2020 to mark LGBT+ history month and London Pride.

However, activists and Christian lawyers claim the Labour-run authority, led by Caroline Woodley, the mayor, is breaching the Local Government Act because flying the flag is a “political statement”.

Article in the Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/28/labour-council-breaking-law-hoisting-pro-trans-flag/

Can be read in full at https://archive.is/j03jK

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POWNewcastleEastWallsend · 30/06/2025 20:37

Quote from article:

Maya Forstater, the chief executive of human rights charity Sex Matters, added:

“Dismissing people who complain about flags or waving this away as a ‘culture war’ completely misses the point. These symbols are not harmless messages of ‘inclusivity’.

“The Progress Pride flag represents a highly contentious belief. It is Hackney council’s job to serve the whole community, in line with the Equality Act, not to signal its support for the claim that ‘trans women are women’.

“Flying this flag sends a highly political and ideological message to every resident of Hackney, not to mention those council workers at the front line in the leisure centres, libraries and youth clubs where the law about single-sex spaces and services needs to be upheld.”

Good point.

MarieDeGournay · 30/06/2025 20:37

I remember ages ago there was a discussion about flags, and I recall that there is actually legislation [well, rule-y kinda things] about what flags may be flown from public buildings.
I'll see if I can find it again.

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IwantToRetire · 30/06/2025 20:37

ScholesPanda · 30/06/2025 20:28

Aren't councils run by politicians? So you'd sort of expect them to be political?

Have you checked the law about the right of local councils to align with political campaigns?

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ScholesPanda · 30/06/2025 20:28

Aren't councils run by politicians? So you'd sort of expect them to be political?

Orangemintcream · 30/06/2025 19:48

Tbh I don’t care what flags they fly as long as they obey the law.

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