New research has revealed that transphobia in the UK has left 84 per cent of trans people feeling unsafe.

The YouGov poll, commissioned by the Good Law Project and published last week, revealed that almost two-thirds of transgender and non-binary people in the country had been verbally abused in public, and almost 25 per cent had suffered physical violence.

Fifty-nine per cent of trans people also reported facing barriers in accessing general NHS care.

Conducted in the wake of the UK Supreme Court’s judgement which determined that the 2010 Equality Act’s definition of a woman related to biological sex only, the poll also asked about key issues facing trans people in the UK such as access to public facilities. More than half of those who responded said they had difficulty going into chan

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