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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
World
Paul McAuley

Where new PM Liz Truss stands on LGBTQ+ issues

New Prime Minister Liz Truss has a mixed track record when it comes to LGBTQ+ issues.

It appears as if the Brexit-backing right-wing politician 's fight for equality only extends to some letters of the acronym as opposed to the community as a whole. While she has voted in favour of same-sex marriage consistently since 2013, she has also publicly expressed how she doesn't believe trans women are women and how gender-affirming care shouldn't stretch to minors.

Despite for the first time none of the "great offices of state" being held by a white man, with Suella Braverman as home secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor and James Cleverly as foreign secretary, many in the LGBTQ+ community feel this progression will not lend itself to their own community.

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