Transgender Group to Boycott Pride London 2009 March and Rally

[auntysarah]

TransLondon, London's largest support group for trans, genderqueer and other gender-variant people has announced that the organisation is to boycott the Pride London 2009 parade and rally over what its members see as negative stereotyping of trans people by the Pride board, a lack of representation, and ongoing disappointment over the poor way Pride dealt with their own stewards refusing entry to the female public toilets at last year's rally to a number of trans women, at least one of whom was then sexually assaulted on being made to use the male toilets.

The full text of their press release and reactions from other LGBT groups can be found on TransLondon's website.