
Local people at the Trans Rights rally held in April this year in response to the Supreme Court ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex. The current mayor, Becca Horn, is at the front in a pink jumpsuit.
Hastings says NO to transphobia
Over 1,100 people have signed a petition proclaiming that ‘Hastings is Proudly Trans inclusive – Let’s Keep it That Way’. Erica Smith reports.
The petition was started by local residents who were sad and angry to read an article in Hastings Independent Press that repeated misleading, inaccurate and derogatory points about trans people. The timing of the article – coming a month after the hugely successful Trans Pride Hastings and just a week before Hastings Pride was particularly divisive. Continue reading…