Tories. 1/4

2010: surge in incidents of homophobia within the DWP reported

2013: voted against equal marriage

2014: LGBTQ asylum seekers forced to provide video evidence of their sexuality

2016: 147% surge in homophobic hate crimes

2017: allied with the DUP
Tories. 2/4

2017: May govt facilitates further abuse to LGBTQ asylum seekers

2019: silent-supportive on attempts to ban LGBTQ-inclusive education

2019: put in a homophobic bully as PM

2020: abandon 2018 pledge to reform the GRA
Tories. 3/4

2020: legislation on banning hormone blockers

2020: Minister for Equalities describes equality debate as "fashionable"

2021: fail to deliver on the 2018 pledge to abolish conversion 'therapy'
Tories. 4/4

Yes, it goes on like this.

The government isn't creating a hostile environment. It's *created* one. The Conservatives are not allies and they never have been, no matter which token politician they bring forward to suggest otherwise.

They are rotten to the core.
4b/4

And let's not forget this hostile environment has left the leading opposition party too much of a coward to remove a very vocal transphobe from their ranks. Let's also not pretend transphobia wasn't an issue in the party under Corbyn either.
idk/4

The SNP have their own transphobia issues, the DUP still exist, and the Lib Dem's still have Farron who wants to defend Rowling, and a leader whose leadership campaign material omitted LGBTQ references for political gain.

The whole stage has failed us. Tories most of all.
tired/4

And as expected, a complete non-answer from the aforementioned homophobic bully of a PM.

The hostile environment isn't being created. It's already here. The UK has a leader who facilitated it, and now has only empty words for LGBTQ people.

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