'Trans rights do not erase women's rights'

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Trans rights supporters rally over the draft code of guidance to the Equality Act produced by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission.  Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We're trying to live our life and we're not a threat, we just want to live in society like anyone else would.

00:07Trans rights do not erase women's rights. We are not taking their spaces, we are using the spaces we belong in.

00:13We are not kicking women out of bathrooms to go to urinate, we just exist and our rights do not come at the cost of women's rights.

00:20It affects every part of your life, it affects your work life, it affects your social life,

00:24it affects other people as well, thinking that they can treat you as lesser and maybe attack you or discriminate against you.

00:31It sends out a really, really bad message.

00:34I've come out because I'm the mother of Alice Lippmann, a young trans woman who died by suicide three years ago

00:40and I know firsthand how difficult she found it then to use public spaces out of fear and anxiety for how people might treat her

00:49and I'm here because I'm absolutely terrified for the trans community, what's being demanded of them.

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