More than 100 organizations, including Gay Star News, have shown support for the UK’s trans community in a full-page advertisement in Wednesday (17 October)’s Metro newspaper.

‘We are proud to stand alongside you in the fight for trans equality’ the ad reads. ‘We support your right to be yourself and you deserve to be treated with dignity and respect in all parts of daily life.’

Organizations backing the ad include political parties, the Welsh government, Tesco, P&G, Channel 4, the National Union of Students, and Amnesty International. It was organized by leading LGBTI rights organization, Stonewall.

‘We will keep on playing our part to make that happen and we send you our support and strength in the face of the hostility directed at you’ it also says.

The Metro last week ran an ad promoting transphobia. The ad, published by Fair Play For Women, questioned whether ‘someone with a penis is a woman’ and referred to transgender women as ‘male-bodied people.’

‘Say NO to Sex Self-ID’, it urged.

The UK’s government is currently taking public consultations on reforms to the Gender Recognition Act (GRA).

Trans campaigners want to end the current law that forces trans people to consult a doctor before changing the gender on identity documents.

Public consultations end on Friday.

‘Unwavering support’

‘We, along with partner organizations, have created this advert to show our unwavering support for trans

equality’ a statement by Stonewall said on Wednesday.

The organization said they’ve seen an increase in hate towards trans people in the last year.

‘We’re proud to stand with our trans family, colleagues, customers, and friends and we will keep working, together, until we achieve equality for trans people everywhere’ they said.

Gay Star News is proud to take this opportunity to reiterate its support for trans people worldwide.

‘Asymmetric assault’

Last week’s anti-trans ad was widely denounced. The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority investigated complaints it had caused widespread offense.

British political activist Christine Burns said it was an ‘overwhelmingly asymmetric assault’.

‘The time for sitting on the fence in the ‘war on trans’ is over’, she said in a Twitter post.

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