LGBTI Manifesto 2016

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HOW WE WILL ACHIEVE

EQUALITY FOR LGBTI PEOPLE

Scotland has come a long way in creating a more equal society for the LGBTI community,

particularly with the passing of equal marriage legislation, but we have further to go to be trulyinclusive. Labour wants a Scotland where being LGBTI is no barrier to getting on in life.

LGBTI People and Opportunity

There is still signicant discrimination in

Scotland being experienced by LGBTI

people. We cannot allow this to continue

and must challenge attitudes right acrossScotland to end stigmatisation and

prejudice.

Our plan

• We will ensure that LGBTI equality is not

simply a cause in Scotland, but challenge

LGBTI inequality internationally, particularly

with those countries Scotland trades with.

• We will ensure that the professionals whowork with our young people can provide

support, tackle bullying and respond to

homophobia, biphobia and transphobia. We

support the Time for Inclusive Education

campaign. We will provide a strategy which

will underpin this ambition, deliver an update

to the Toolkit for Teachers, and set out clear

standards detailing how best to meet their

needs and support LGBTI young people.

• We will support the inclusion of LGBTI issues

in consent and relationships education inschools.

• We will ensure that all young people,

regardless of location, will have access to

consistent sex education which considers

LGBTI relationships and sexual health.

• We will ensure that training and skills

development across all industries is open to

LGBTI people without fear of discrimination.

LGBTI People and Public Life

Scotland can be proud of its record

in Parliament of LGBTI leaders and

positive attitudes towards LGBTI policy

- making. However, on the ground thereis signicant work to be done to address

issues of under-representation.

Our plan

• We will ensure all elected ocials in

Parliament and in local authorities are

trained on understanding LGBTI issues.

• We will conduct national research on public

attitudes to the LGBTI community to assistpolicy making.

• We are committed to delivering public

services which support and engage with

LGBTI communities, staed by professionals

who are responsive to health needs.

• We will support and advocate LGBTI

role models in public life to inspire and

encourage young LGBTI people.



LGBTI People and Justice

A third of LGBTI people feel unable to

report a hate crime to the police. This

illustrates a lack of faith in our justice

system which we must change. We must

ensure we are fullling our duty to every

individual in Scotland and ensure our

legislation is inclusive of the needs of all.

Our plan

• We will train police and frontline sta

on unconscious bias and how to tackle

homophobia and transphobia.

• We will support third party hate crime

reporting centres.

• We will support LGBTI organisations to

run a national campaign to encourage

people to understand what a hate crime

is and how to report it.

• We will ensure that mixed sex couples

also have the ability to have civil

partnerships so that we have true

marriage equality in Scotland.

• Scotland’s young people who wish to

seek legal recognition of the gender they

live would be entitled to do so from the

age of 16 under Scottish Labour.• We will adopt a zero-tolerance approach

to hate crime, particularly that which

is motivated by religion, race, sexual

orientation and gender identity.

LGBTI People and the Economy

Our economy needs to work for everyone

and a key part of that is ensuring our

workplaces are fully inclusive.

1 in 4 LGBTI people have experienced

discrimination in the workplace and

60% do not feel comfortable being open

about their sexuality at work.

This must change.

Our plan

• We will promote and encourage

businesses and the public sector to have

full diversity on their boards.

• We will work with LGBTI organisations

to encourage employers to take part in

LGBTI training.

• We will support LGBTI business role

models to tackle negative attitudes in the

workplace.

• We will encourage organisations and

commercial companies to use more

inclusive language when asking about

gender identity on forms and online

systems.



LGBTI People and HealthDiscrimination and prejudice can have an

adverse eect on an individual’s mental

health. We need a healthcare system

that understands this and can provide

early intervention and support for LGBTI

people. We need an NHS t for the 21st

century that can meet the needs of LGBTI

individuals.

Our plan

• We will give frontline sta and mental

health workers will be given LGBTI

specic training.

• We will ensure LGBTI issues are

included in Scotland’s mental health

strategy.

• We will improve waiting times with

new targets for Scotland’s gender

identity services.

• Review the 12 month waiting period

for gay men to donate blood.

• We will change the law to provide

legal recognition for people who do

not identify as men or women and

remove the psychiatric diagnosis

requirement from legal gender

recognition process.



Printed & Promoted by Brian Roy, Scottish General Secretary, Scottish Labour Party, 290 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4RE

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