NOT SAFE TO BE ME
An Open Letter to Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Dominic Raab and the UK government
By Trans Activism UK
The following outlines our mission statement for the upcoming protest to be held at Parliament Square on the 29th of June 2022, starting at 12PM.
On 16 May 2021, the government made an announcement headed by the Minister for Women and Equalities Liz Truss, alongside Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, that the UK were due to host a global event between 29th June - 1st July 2022, inviting countries around the world to discuss the UK’s work on LGBTQ+ rights, and what the UK could teach other nations going forward.
This event was later cancelled due to backlash from the LGBTQ+ community and an overwhelming majority of UK LGBTQ+ organisations. This was due to ongoing attacks on the LGBTQ+ community which included an unwillingness to implement a comprehensive conversion therapy ban that included protections for the trans community, strife with exploitable loopholes, and a negative and violent anti-trans and overall anti-LGBTQ+ environment that is being fostered by senior government officials. The UK government has failed to deliver on key promises which include implementing the aforementioned ban, their promised substantial reform for the Gender Recognition Act, and the failure to make moves towards the depathologizing of LGBTQ+ and trans medical care.
This however is not the only failing committed by the UK government. Minorities from across the UK have been impacted by an unsafe environment cultivated by our elected officials, from Muslims being attacked by our own Prime Minister with immature bigotry such as calling Muslim women “letterboxes”, to Black people being disproportionately targeted by the police under a government that claims not to be systematically racist, to migrants who have escaped harrowing situations being deported to Rwanda where their lives are at risk and the stark rise in anti-Semitism in the UK with the highest numbers of hate incidents reported in the last year.
Below we further outline how and in what ways it is not safe to be yourself in the UK for many minorities and how current and past affairs have impacted people and their lives, and in response to the UK’s proposed Safe To Be Me conference, we are protesting and letting the UK and the government know,
IT IS NOT SAFE TO BE ME.
LGBTQ+ rights in the UK have been negatively impacted by the rise of hate being perpetuated by the mainstream media, UK government officials and anti-LGBTQ+ organisations, and other marginalised communities have faced a similar impact, many of whom intersect multiple identities and minority groups. While this protest was organised by a group of trans activists, we recognise that the trans community is far from the only community for whom the UK is currently unsafe, and we want to make it clear that intersectionality, and standing alongside other minority groups facing hate, harassment, and legal fights, is vital if we are ever going to improve the state of inequality in the UK.
Hate is not experienced in a bubble. Black and Brown queer people face hate and barriers not experienced by many in the LGBTQ+ community. Autistic trans people face unique barriers to healthcare access. Disabled sex workers face unique barriers in accessing support they should be entitled to. So many minority groups, and intersectional groups, here in the UK are facing their own unique struggles, and deserve to be heard and to feel safe in the UK.
The UK needs to reckon with the fact that many of its institutions enact discriminatory practices that harm many of our most vulnerable community members, particularly those from intersectional backgrounds.
Police often use unnecessary violence, over-policing, and undue suspicion against BIPOC members of the community, particularly Black men, as ways to criminalise peaceful existence through bigoted generalisations. They also often treat neurodivergent people as inherently suspicious due to basing their system of assessing guilt being based on neurotypical behaviours and will treat harmless self-regulatory behaviours as inherently dangerous. Many minority groups in the UK are assumed guilty rather than innocent as a starting position, and as such, they perpetuate the very same bigoted beliefs they initially acted on.
However, the police are far from the only UK institution that has issues of discriminatory practices baked into their day-to-day operation. Black women in the UK regularly have their pain ignored by doctors, who will de-prioritise taking Black women’s reported symptoms as seriously, compared to White patients with the same issue on paper.
The Gender Clinic service in the UK discriminates against neurodiverse trans people, assuming for example that autistic people are less capable of understanding and consenting to transition, or that people with ADHD might just be experiencing a period of low impulse control, and using that as a barrier to delay access to a care system that already features huge multiple-year waiting lists for care.
From assumptions that disabled people are faking their disabilities, to structures set up to deny various communities in the UK upward mobility, the UK needs to confront the fact that multiple minority groups face structural discrimination from services we are meant to be able to rely on in an emergency.
This discriminatory behaviour is further evidenced by the handling of reporting on minority lives by the UK press. The press is routinely complicit in perpetuating harmful misinformation, often to the detriment of minority groups and those most vulnerable in society, with minimal oversight, regulation, or accountability.
From the UK media’s regular spotlighting of anti-mask and anti-vaccine rhetoric during a global pandemic, leading to a less safe society for the immunocompromised, to the BBC stating that they would platform flat earth views if they became a popular belief as a justification for their platforming of anti-trans hate groups, this has been an ongoing issue in the UK for decades with no signs of stopping, despite evidence of the harm that it causes.
Whether we’re looking at the fearmongering regurgitated in the 90s by newspapers implying that vaccines were potentially linked to the development of autism, to the 2000’s media fear-mongering of migrant communities, the UK press routinely highlights perspectives they know are incorrect for personal gain and uses minority groups as a rotating cast of villains on whom to blame society’s ills, and this cycle cannot continue. We hardly need to mention the similarities in today’s transphobic reporting that shockingly mirrors the demonisation of the gay community in the 80s, with AIDS fear-mongering and the painting of queer men as predatory child abusers.
Gypsy, Roma & Traveller (GRT) communities are protected under the category of ‘race’ in the Equality Act 2010. However, they have been routinely treated as second-class citizens by a government that has done little to stem the UK’s history of discrimination towards GRT citizens. The Conservative’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill directly enables lawful harassment and discrimination of a protected group, endangering their homes and their safety.
Though it is technically legal to be a sex worker in the UK, legal protections and general protections for this vulnerable group are basically non-existent, with the UK not allowing sex workers to work together to build a safe environment, forcing sex workers into isolation. They also face police brutality and discrimination with police regularly raiding homes and harming a vulnerable group with arrests for self-regulating their safety.
Sex worker discrimination goes deeper than government and police discrimination with discrimination coming from crucial societal establishments such as banks and financial systems, schools, digital discrimination and deplatforming, and of course media and societal stigmatisations.
The UK routinely misuses statistics and unfounded surveys and data from hate groups to deny issues affecting minorities. This can be seen when government officials such as the former Health Secretary misused Covid data during a global pandemic, to fear-mongering using fictitious or biased data to stir up anti-migrant sentiment. Another example is the BBC using a statistically flawed survey from a known anti-trans group which was neither quantitative nor qualitative.
The government has lied about the NHS using incorrect statistics, a service which the majority of people in the UK rely on. The truth is that the current state of healthcare impacts vulnerable minorities, causing suffering amongst our communities and even deaths either from lack of healthcare, suicides from long wait times or government negligence.
The UK has progressively over the past few decades increased the complexity of barriers standing between disabled people and their access to healthcare and financial support needed to survive. From the gutting of funding for NHS services, to the Department for Work and Pensions pushing out ever more strict and discriminatory requirements preventing access to support services. Disabled people in the UK are increasingly spending their lives on lengthy waiting lists, precariously close at any time to having their only source of income pulled with little recourse.
Disabled people in this country cannot marry without risking losing that income because of their partner’s income, and have their lives turned into constant paperwork battles just to receive basic support, and this needs to change.
We’ve known since the start of the pandemic that Covid inequality has impacted BIPOC people and communities disproportionately in the UK. This should not be a surprise, as historically the UK has a long-standing history of worse healthcare outcomes for BIPOC communities.
BIPOC communities are disproportionately working jobs in the UK which could not be done remotely, received higher rates of scepticism and worse care in hospitals, and were not given adequate consideration in the government’s approach to “opening up” the country “Post-Covid”.
From discrimination persisting within the NHS to a lack of proper financial support for those who needed to miss work after a positive Covid test result, proper steps were not taken to ensure that BIPOC communities were protected from receiving unequal health outcomes during a national health emergency.
Bisexual, pansexual and mspec individuals are also subjected to difficulties accessing healthcare, with many people reporting that healthcare professionals do not understand their specific health needs, and that they face inappropriate curiosity during medical appointments. The lack of education and visibility of issues that mspec people face means that the discrimination that they experience is often overlooked both inside and outside of queer communities.
A big topic of conversation in the UK right now is the ban on conversion therapy. The ban fails to be truly effective and inclusive due to only covering a limited selection of queer folks, and containing easy to manipulate loopholes. However, a matter that is not widely discussed is the lack of protection for Asexual people who are at great risk of domestic as well as religious conversion practices, and even “corrective rape”.
The UK has downplayed the harm inflicted on Intersex people, with the House of Commons claiming, in 2016 that “intersex medical interventions” were a thing of the past and denying to the UN that same year that we even had such practices for Intersex children. This is an outright fabrication, as proven by Intersex organisations and even the NHS, who in the same year provided statistics that resulted in the UN committee expressing concern at, “medically unnecessary surgeries and other procedures on intersex children before they are able to provide their informed consent, which often entails irreversible consequences and can cause severe physical and psychological suffering, and the lack of redress and compensation in such cases.”
The next year the UN called on the UK to abolish all legislation and practices that would allow any form of forced intervention or surgery. Five years later and the UK still has not done this.
In 2015 Intersex status was specifically included in the protected characteristic of sex in Jersey to protect Intersex people from discrimination. The UK has not followed suit.
Several countries in Europe allow Intersex people to change their sex marker on identification documents on a basis of self-identification. The UK does not.
To summarise it is NOT SAFE TO BE ME. It is NOT SAFE for many communities and people in the UK to not only exist but also to thrive, for more reasons than we can possibly list. The UK, its institutions, its mainstream media and its government have been continually failing the people it has sworn to serve. Recently the government announced amendments to the Human Rights Act, a vital piece of legislation protecting our rights. This serious attempt at removing the protections the Human Rights Act provides will set a dangerous precedent and will be used to discriminate against the UK populace. Further evidence that it is not safe in the UK is the several reports and equality indexes published in recent years that show that the UK is drastically regressing in its protections and provisions for the safety of its citizens, with this hostile environment primarily impacting minority groups.
Reports show the highest ever recorded anti-Jewish hate in 2021 for London with a rise of 37% from the previous year. UK bodies who monitor racism in the UK reported that race and nationality-based hate crimes rose by 73% in 2021, with a 12% rise in racially aggravated offences recorded. Further damning evidence for the UK, while the government declares that it is safe in the UK for people to be themselves, is the ILGA Europe’s Rainbow Map & Index 2022 publication that reports the UK was the country with the most dramatic drop in the index, losing 11% of its points and falling from 10th to 14th place in a year, which marks our third year running of a decrease in points.
In highlighting all this we hope that this statement and protest urges UK bodies, the media, government officials, and individuals in the UK populace to re-evaluate their positions and do more to protect those most vulnerable in our society, to ensure we are moving towards an equal society rather than falling behind, to combat the rise of hate and violence in the UK and to make sure it is genuinely SAFE TO BE ME, in the UK.
I sign this letter to offer my full support and solidarity in calling for the government to acknowledge their failings and put in place better practices to ensure the safety of marginalised communities in the UK.
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Felix F Fern (Trans Activism UK)
Shaira Bambi Choudhury (Trans Activism UK)
Laura Kate Dale (Trans Activism UK)
Amelia Adam Decruz (Trans Activism UK)
Niamh Simpson
Libby Baxter-Williams, Biscuit
Saba Ali
Mark Summers casting director
Eva Echo (Head of Communication & Engagement at Birmingham Pride, Crown Prosecution Service hate crime LSIP member)
Jack Lynch
Jamie Wareham, Founder and director, QueerAF
Barry Boffy, Inclusion & Diversity Thought Leader
Dr Natacha Kennedy
Sian Amekuedi
Adi Daly-Gourdialsing
Sacha Coward
Olly Pike
Dr Phoenix Andrews
Ejel Khan (Coordinator) Muslim LGBT Network
Chris Jae
N McAdam
Lo Shearing, Bi Survivors Network
Deenah al-Aqsa (Journalist/Programmes Officer for Hidayah LGBT)
Prof. Stephen Whittle, OBE, FAcSS
Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants
Florence Schechter, Director and Founder of Vagina Museum
Damian Fisher
Nicola Rose - Stephs Place UK
Hafsa Qureshi
jane fae, Chair - Trans Media Watch
Mo N (IT Officer, Hidayah LGBT+)
Osman Mohammed (Outreach Officer, Hidayah LGBT)
Kay Challis
Hannah Quigley
Holly Warde
Finn White
Michael Beckwith
Joseph Adams B.Sc. (Hons) - Civil Servant and PCS Union Rep
Aiko
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James Hart
Michael Armstrong
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Peter Shillito (Radio Presenter/Cat 107.9)
May Keable
Hannah Phillips
Katy Montgomerie
Jamie John King
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Nicola Buckland
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Sofia Marinos - UWE Bristol Student
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Hayley Sherriff
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Rachel O'Connor
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Callum Singleton
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Tess Stenson
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Toni Jacobs (Derby Pride)
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Edward Claydon
Beth Gould (Trans & Non-Binary Physicists)
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Emma Taylor
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Kyle Prêle
David Devereux (Tin Can Audio)
Johanna Tooze
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Lee Price
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Asher Gibson
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Matthew Jennifer Tinn
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Toya Harvey
Jerry Stillman
Kat Orr (NHS, queer, angry)
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Gavin Marshall
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Raina Henlan, Freelance Writer
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Anita Datta
Sophie Le Blanc
Stephen Gibson
Claire Prosho, Founder, Claire's Trans Talks
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Oli Kennedy
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Richard Paris
Rachel-lee Mackenzie She/They (LGBT+ Liberal Democrats)
Francis Collas
Cassie Saltmer
G Young
Nicki Barratt
Róisín Pitman - Security Services
Katnya Piper
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Ross Crook
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T. Palmer
Shea Coffey Medway Pride Radio
Craig Anderson (HotScots Football Club)
Samantha P (ally to the trans community)
Alexis Chilvers (Epsom & Ewell CLP LGBT+ Officer)
Roz Kaveney. Writer
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Reuben Wells
Miranda Willan
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Rieko Kaminari
Bee Bradley
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Dawn Chen-Yang Li Assoc CIPD
Sarah Jones
Danielle
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Melissa Langridge (NHS Worker)
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Adele Rogers
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Fae Cain Fáelan
Ioannis Ntanos
Charles
Sophie Bradshaw
Sophie Parker
Raven D
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Alexandra Harvey
Alfie Sterne
Rosie Bye
Fergus Brazier
Jess Hawkins
Sharon Shaw (she/her, neurodivergent queer parent)
Debbie Catherine Jones
Neil Huntingdon
Jaydie Holmes
Isabel Birds
Alexander Manson
David Allsopp
Dr Jack Lopez Medical and Social Anthropologist, University of Bradford UK
Chloe McCarthy
Anna Chivers
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Melissa Stoney
Eamon Hirano
Jessica Lauren
Alice Fawcett
N. Humberstone
Scott Sabourin
Clare Shep
Claire green
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Anne Isabella Coombes
Tara M
Duck Todd
Steve Keith (Founder, The Queer Student Awards)
Joshua Smith
David Prince
David Hope
Lisa StJohn
Sophie Morgan Knapman
Alex Ziegler
Allison McKenzie
Hannah Moore
Simon Hodges
Felix Steel
Jemima Bates
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Gaibriéil Munn
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David Douglas James Chan
Julian Corlett UNISON
Phoebe Jordan
Jennifer Blundell
Jessica Aston
Cayden Beadle
Kathryn Bristow
Joy Cruickshank
Jamie Angus-Whiteoak Professor Emeritus at The University of Salford
Jamie Coombes
Peter Fearn
Nic Turner
Rachel Reese
Richard Boulton
Faith Elisabeth Lilley
Katie Fenn
Daisy T - GenderPride.co
Katie Neeves (Founder of Cool2BTrans)
Martin Ellis
Alice Nuttall
Luke Williams
Edward Sweet
Michael Dyer-Evans
Avril Clark (Co-Founder TRUK)
Alex Morgan
Ben Wilson
Lucy Clark (Founder TRUK)
Stephanie G
Viridian
Adam Bell
Caelan Rooney
Rachel Sally Browne
Allie Howard Cooper (They/Them)
Mark Whiley
Willow Herring (Polarity works)
Mr Roy C Isserlis
Ria Patel
Carrie Marshall
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Ashleigh Milton
Andrew Gray
jay hutchinson
Owen J Hurcum
Jordan Boulton
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Danielle Morgan
Laura Leigh LFB Retired
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Abigail Bell
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Patricia Brynolf
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Flora Barratt
Hannah Costello
Raelo Morris
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Jack Sullivan
Jake Thompson
Phoenix F. O'Neill
Matthew Scott
Sean Levy
Emma J
Lucy Barnes (She/Her/Hers)
Elio Fantini- former BCYC LGBTQ rep
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Jamie Thomas
Blake Clarke
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Clive Greenhalgh
Andrea K Simpson
Jamie Bloomfield
Scarlett James
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Emily Wright
Chloe Michelle Turner
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Imogen Solly
Kelly Wright
Maggie Jones retd Specialist Nurse
Jasmine Thompson (Transgender)
Lila Bhattacherjee
Sophie Martins
Douglas Clements EngTech
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Marina Tapley
Sheena Ferguson
Sarah-Helen Snow
Rebecca Smithson
George Blake
George Boon
Mil Hodgson
Katie Lydon
Alessa Catterall (SNAP Leadership Panel)
Julia Valentine
Thea Hincks
Steven
Chris Riley
Nikki Lindsey
James Collins
Hywel Jeffcott
Evie Rose Ansell
Andrew Jackson
Connor Groves
Tess Wrigley
Cal Blagbrough
Andrew Simpson
Amy Fitzgerald
Theo Dixon
Billy Radbourne
Andromeda Kerova
Fern Bailey
Emma Crawshaw
Kira Herdman
Hywel ap Dafydd
Julie Montoya
Ginella Williams (Counsellor & Director TRUK Listens CIC)
Rebecca Alice Hills MChem
Christian van den Bosch
Lydz searle (Access 27 Ltd.)
David Lavelle-Hill
Hannah Carter [she/her] (Access 27 Ltd.)
Wayne owen
Shaun Handy
Ms R. Cronin
Dr LJ Potter (therapists against conversion therapy and transphobia)
Drayce Beckett
J. Woodworth
Tia Dodgson
Catherine Robson
Diana Croce
Andrew McGrae
Mel Harris
Thomas King
Hannah Rutherford
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Paige Morison
Autie Camilleri
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Michael R. Hurlimann
Megan Whitlock
T Hurlock-Norton
Natasha Feinstein
William Smith, Therapist/Counsellor
Jaime Lidgard
Callum Rowland
Louise Pemberton
Bima Loxley
S Park
May Banks
Andrew Rivers
Callum Bagshaw
Kris Black LLB (Hons)
daisy horn
Lisa Price
Dawn Hindle
Laurie M. Atkinson Psychotherapist
Mark Mahon
Ezra John Woodger
Michelle-Louise Burrows
Alistair Paton
Billy Wassell
Dylan Lewis-Creser, Secretary of LGBTIQA+ Greens
Joseph W Mandry
Issy Parnell-Tomasetti
Sal Creber
Jett Nyx
Faith Stone
Rae French
Tim Hogan
Jamie Moss
Ian Roode-Orlin
Harper Dafforn
Rose Schmits
George Cheal (The Bonsai Treehouse)
Dylan Thomas
Faith Hughes
Elliot Parrott
Chris Thody, Gardener, Bradford
Katy Perkins
Vince Hayward
Luke Walker
Lena Collins
Luc Thomas
Paige Warden
Rohit Kumar
Liz White
Lesley Fannin
Carrey Hlustik
Sam Tate
Ciar Moore-Saxton
Beth Mary
Caterina Lai Cullinane
REMY W-S
Geoffrey Rae
Mx B Eiles
Wayne Croft
Rebecca Milton, University of Kent
Jack Smith (xe/xem)
Kieran Shiach
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Sam Perrett
Rowan
Katy Sardeson-Coe
Callum Downs
Éabha Neburagho
Justin Sheppherd
Sophie Asbery
Dominic Salvia
Cory Hubbard
Will Cooke
Alice Shelley Forbes (of northumbia, tyne and wear.)
Lucretia Rigley
Harvey Jones, BA(Hons)
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Alistair Gilmour
Sam Cannon
Sorrel Eyres
Lucy Stardust Booth
Christopher Steel
Jessica Trevan
Emma Leahy
Al Levin
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Ase Faun Davey
amandine de schaetzen
Eris marigold
Nathan Saucier
Leigh Crawford - Ally
Branwen Blackshaw BA (Hons)
Christy Tomlin
Chris Northwood, Manchester Liberal Democrats
Darragh O’Neill
Kit Campbell
Jem E MacKenzie
Mike Brooks
jamie lawton
Morgan Attwood
Matilda Tempest
Luke Le Moignan
Jemima Elliott
Harvey Elton
Peter Scott, Web Developer
Joe Murphy
Virgil Darkshire
J Heath
Christine Jayne Finch, Therapies for Life Counselling
Rebecca Jones (Liberal Democrat)
Daniel Ostrowski
Sophie L (@RexogamerS)
Rob Wilkinson
George Holt
Chris Eason
Simon Jones
Evelyn Staniforth
Lauri Howes (NHS worker)
Jon Jones
Emma Hacking, counsellor
Reverie Menniss
Carla Stevens
R Hadley
Blue Avery Wheeler
James Moorehead
Chris Ross
Isaac Pearce
C Strydom
Elisabeth Campbell
Cassidy Sunset
Craig Fisher
Antonio Vincentelli
Ian Prince
Martin Dixon
Orion Barker
Claire Murray
Emily Austin
River Holmes
Luke Chapman
Elinor Nixon-Davingoff
A.Chaplin
Leslie Francis Walker
Natalie Wicks
Graham Collins
Emma Rose
Dani Llewellyn
Violet
Evi
Andie Davidson (Chair of Trustees, Clare Project, Brighton)
Paul Newark
Cynthia Woods
River Cotterell
Fiona Collier
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