Equality for the Transgender Community

Part of 2. Questions to the Leader of the House – in the Senedd at 2:26 pm on 28 February 2018.

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Photo of Julie James Julie James Labour 2:26, 28 February 2018

Well, absolutely. I'm sure the Member knows that the Gender Recognition Act is not devolved to Wales, but we welcome the UK Government's plans to reform the Act, and we've been engaging, at an official level, with those plans.

All our stakeholders tell us of the increasingly negative media and social media attacks our trans communities are facing. We don't like the damaging narrative at all, and we've been working with trans people to address the barriers they face in equality. We fund a number of organisations, which we have specifically asked to be aware of the trans issues. We fund Victim Support, for example, and we've been working with them to make sure that our training is in place for everybody who is involved in our Supporting People programmes so that they have specific training. We've been rolling that specific training out for specifically that reason. We're very, very much aware that we've a long way to go, but we are in the process of working on a number of initiatives, in conjunction with the community themselves, to make sure that we get the very best outcomes for trans people in Wales, in all our communities.