The Times- Decline in support for trans women using refuges

 Decline in support for trans women using refuges

Greg Hurst, Social Affairs editor

The Times

There has been a fall in public support for transgender women using single-sex spaces, a survey for the equalities watchdog has found.

The proportion of adults who believe trans women should be able to use refuges for women fleeing domestic violence has dropped by 10 percentage points since 2016 after feminist campaigners raised objections over trans rights. There was also a small decrease among women supporting trans women using female lavatories in public places. In 2016 72 per cent were comfortable with it compared to 66 per cent in the survey.

The findings come after the government delayed the outcome of a long-awaited review of the steps a transgender person must take to win legal recognition of a change in gender and a new birth certificate in England and Wales.

Boris Johnson is expected to rule out changes to the process, set out in the Gender Recognition Act 2004. An announcement was due last month. Mr Johnson has said the government would respond “over the summer”.

Liz Truss, the trade secretary and equalities minister, has said she will clarify the circumstances in which transgender people may be excluded from single-sex facilities and women’s refuges. The Equality and Human Rights Commission survey of 5,860 adults, found 51 per cent comfortable with trans women using a woman’s refuge, while 24 per cent felt uncomfortable and 22 per cent offered no view. In a similar survey in 2016, 61 per cent were comfortable.

Overall public opinion remains supportive of transgender people, with 82 per cent feeling they were not prejudiced against them.





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