Will Young has vocalised his help for transgender rights, calling out the Conservative authorities for stoking worry across the trans group.
The singer appeared on Channel 4 News discussing the findings within the 2021 census on the dimensions of the LGBTQ+ inhabitants within the UK, which revealed for the primary time what number of transgender folks there are within the nation. According to the census, there are no less than 262,000 trans folks within the UK, representing 0.5 per cent of the inhabitants.
Young stated that there’s a “huge amount of misrepresentation of transgender people”, notably in mild of the Conservative authorities’s proliferation of anti-trans rhetoric.
“I think that you probably can see, going back to the gay rights struggles and particularly with AIDS and HIV, I think there’s a weird disparity. I feel like it’s very difficult for trans people to tell their stories,” he defined.
“Even, for example, I’ve been looking at doing, very much with transgender people, because I am a white, middle class gay man, a documentary on what is it like to be transgender? Who can tell the stories? And very few broadcasters want to touch it. I think that’s very interesting to me.”
“There’s a huge amount of misrepresentation of transgender people.”
Singer Will Young tells @krishgm “it’s very difficult for transgender people to tell their stories” as a result of the topic has grow to be so politicised. pic.twitter.com/tbL8SLtCLJ
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) January 7, 2023
He continued: “I think transgender people think the issue has been so politicised by the Conservatives and we see it when a minority group is picked up and people try to attack them and people then become afraid of them. It really worries me.”
Broadcaster Krishnan Guru-Murthy requested Young if it was truthful to say that the problem of transgender rights is politicised “just by the Conservatives”, to which he stated: “No, it’s not fair, I agree with you. I think you see it with Labour as well, Lib Dems… I suppose I’m using the Conservatives because they’re in government. But what it does, it creates fear.”
“Yes, there is some unity with gay people and the struggle that they had, and a huge amount of empathy, and I’m constantly educating myself.”
Young additionally spoke about how he hopes the census outcomes can have a optimistic impression. “Hopefully, people are more and more encouraged to be themselves and throw off the shackles of a life that perhaps you felt you should lead. We’re all unique, just be yourself and be kind to people.”
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has reportedly deliberate to take away transgender folks from safety below the 2010 Equality Act and exclude them from a proposed ban of conversion remedy. The UK authorities can also be contemplating blocking Scotland’s new self-identification regulation that can make it simpler for trans folks to alter their authorized gender.
Young additionally not too long ago expressed his disappointment in David Beckham for his involvement within the Qatar World Cup on the idea of the nation’s notably poor report on LGBTQ+ rights, which was seen to be at odds with Beckham’s standing as a “gay icon” and LGBTQ+ ally.