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The Guardian - UK
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Gaby Hinsliff

The PM sees votes in a culture war over trans rights, but this issue must transcend party politics

Protesters outside Downing Street demand a ban on conversion practices for trans people.
Protesters outside Downing Street demand a ban on conversion practices for trans people. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Last Sunday saw one of the biggest protests outside Downing Street in years.

It wasn’t over Ukraine, or the soaring heating bills some fear will eventually push us into social unrest, or even the growing crisis in British hospitals. It was over what should have been a small, if sensitive, legislative change improving a relative handful of lives, which has somehow been blown up into the kind of mutually destructive culture war that burns everyone it touches. And thereby hangs a tale about how not to fight the next general election, for all our sakes.

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