Jane Fae has been in touch with Tara Hudson’s family and has written a harrowing piece for Gay Star News about what life is like for Tara inside Horfield Prison.

Elsewhere Pink News has the story of an elderly trans woman who is being denied her pension because she didn’t think she needed a Gender Recognition Certificate and so is being treated as a man by the government.

I’m seeing lots of trans people on social media who are very traumatized by the whole thing because they can see this sort of thing happening to them. Personally I’m not doing too bad because my birth certificate does say I’m female. However, I also have personal experience of being victimized by a government bureaucracy that tried me and found me guilty of a crime they won’t even explain to me, let alone allow me to defend myself on.

So here’s what worries me. It is entirely possible that some future government could decide to rescind the Gender Recognition Act and insist that all trans people should go back to living in the gender they were assigned at birth. I don’t think it is likely, but it isn’t impossible either. When I hear politicians saying that they want to scrap the Human Rights Act, this is the sort of thing I expect to come afterwards.