Trans debate rages around the world, pitting LGBT+ community against itself
By Hugo Greenhalgh
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
As British politicians wrestle with Brexit, Britain’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community – like others around the world – is grappling with a potential split of its own.
Can the coalition of allies, which traces its roots back to the early days of gay liberation in the 1960s, survive in its current form?
Caught in the crossfire between trans activists and feminists over the nature of what it is to be a woman, calls for a break-up of the longstanding LGBT+ alliance back to its constituent elements are starting to emerge.
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