Leaving with EU will not improve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual rights.
The biggest problem trans people are facing when transitioning is the ridiculously long waiting lists to be seen by a Gender Identity Clinic. This is due to staff shortages. Remaining in the EU allows people to move freely across Europe, which means that the NHS have more of a chance of hiring people from across the continent. When I went to a lecture hosted by the Charing Cross clinic, their new, much needed surgeon was German.
An understaffed and over worked clinic can not fully meet the needs of it's patients.
If we leave, UK citizens will not be entitled to free healthcare in other EU countries. Personally, I wish to travel and migrate around Europe, so if I settle down in, say, the Netherlands, I can not receive free care in their clinics.
Why should I receive free health care? Because I am human and I believe that health care fees are an abomination.
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership may very well disassemble the NHS, and the Conservatives, as we know, are behind that movement, whereas a lot of Europe is against the idea.
A new privatised health care system could mean a lot of trans people would have to suffer with out medical treatment... The suicide rate is high enough, thanks.
Our LGBT rights are milestones ahead of other EU countries. The EU wants us to lead others towards a safer and more accepting environment for the LGBT community all over the continent. How brilliant would that be?!
We're all human.
Leaving the EU gives our government the power to toy with our human rights, and looking at the government we currently have... I don't trust them with mine.
All this being said, vote for what matters to you. It's just important that you do vote.
The EU is not perfect, but currently I firmly believe that staying in is best for, not just the LGBT community, but this entire country.
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