Reid-Smith (ed), ‘Brexit: The LGBT Impact Assessment’, 2018

Category: Reports
Source: Academic
Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Gender Identity, Intersex, Refugee/Asylum, LGBT+
Place: United Kingdom
Year: 2018
URL: <a href="https://www.gaystarnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/LGBT-RIGHTS-AND-LEAVING-THE-EUROPEAN-UNION-REPORT.pdf">https://www.gaystarnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/LGBT-RIGHTS-AND-LEAVING-THE-EUROPEAN-UNION-REPORT.pdf

Tris Reid-Smith (editor in chief), Jonathan Cooper OBE, Peter Dunne, Anya Palmer, Keina Yoshida (authors) ‘Brexit: The LGBT Impact Assessment’, 2018, Gay Star News.

Gay Star News commissioned leading lawyers in LGBTI human rights to write Brexit: The LGBT Impact Assessment. They conclude that the European Union helped deliver many of the rights and protections that gay, bi and trans people in the UK enjoy today. And they say that leaving the EU will leave British LGBT people vulnerable if a future government is less supportive. Currently the EU locks the UK into protecting people on the basis of sexuality and gender identity. And it provides gay, bi and trans people with a legal route to appeal if the UK doesn’t treat them fairly.

The report also shows the EU has helped drive UK LGBTI rights forward, particularly in the last two decades. It asks how the government could do that alone, and whether progress will slow once we leave the EU?