‘Targeting trans people and migrants isn’t where oppression ends – it’s where it begins’

As anti-trans and anti-migrant sentiments deepen under Keir Starmer’s Labour, Pride Month must be about resistance, not rainbow capitalism and toxic positivity, Ayman Eckford – a member of Rainbow Migration’s Refugee Advisory Panel – writes exclusively for PinkNews.

When I arrived in the UK six years ago as an asylum seeker, I was stunned by how LGBTQI+ friendly the country seemed. Compared to Ukraine and Russia – where I had previously lived – it felt almost like time travel.

I’ve known I was trans since I was four years old. But it was only here, in the UK, at the age of 24, that I finally felt safe enough to come out.

Since then, much has changed. The political climate has shifted. Laws have shifted.

In 2015, the annual

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