recent article in the spectator.
I live in Newham and find it very strange that we have NO GAY CLUBS OR BARS . there certainly are no venues for trans or non binary evenings out or entertainment . We are a predominantly Muslim Borough as the article states in the spectator. It is however true to say that generally Muslim culture allows for People to be more accepted as trans gender rather than as gay or lesbian. An may well account for the census numbers. Not as the article likes to say that the population of the borough has not got the intelligence to know what the question on the census form was about. I actually find that quite wrong knowing most of my Muslim neighbours as I do they certainly know what the difference between what gender you where assigned at births . and how you wish to identify now. Though on a personal level my self and my partner still encounter some degree of distain from some of the neighbours . who prefer to refer to my partner as my son. Though when my previous partner died in 1999 he was so popular among the neighbours that the local imam at the time said prayers for him at Friday prayers. and many of the neighbours stood in respect as his coffin was born away from our home to his cremation .
The local council in Newham has all ways been open to and sportive of LGBTQ issues I my self use to serve on the gay advisory committee back in the early 1980s and the borough has a long history of gay pubs and night clubs from the 1960s when the docks where still operating ,even in the 90s we still had a around 7 gay venues across the borough and a the oldest gay one nightery in London Tricky Dicks at the Pigeons pub . the place is now a Tesco's. Now we have no gay venues and the only LGBTQ culture in the borough is once a year when the council run events fo0r LGBTQ History month. Not forgetting that the Kings Cross Steelers are of course based at West ham rugby club so Saturdays if your gay and like rugby as I do. An my Arthritis is not playing up to much a trip to the club is quite on the cards . As long as I can manage the walk along the green way .
All in all though I suspect that that the article may well be right that Newham cannot really have as big a population of LGBTQ people as Brighton and I cannot truly speak on the situation in BRENT as I do not live there.
for the record I am putting here the results as published for the 2021 censuses from the office of national statistics..
An it leaves me wondering why the spectator singled out Newham and Brent . particularly for comment?
Given that Newham and Brent have the highest number of women who identify as trans men. I would suggest that they may be women who are living independently from more conservative Muslim house holds and Family's,. Especially among the younger ones as that is a way they can leave home with dignity and refuse arranged marriages. Where they can not declare them selves as lesbians . It is also true that being trans which ever way it is very likely to mean you have to move away from family friends an support networks that go with that. .An it is true to say that the boroughs in question while still in London, there by offering potential support and community to relate to, also offer some of the cheapest rents in the city . I would also suggest that the census figures need to be looked at in income brackets to. As I do think this would show why the LGB group are higher in boroughs with higher rents as many of the people who identify in this way are also possible in the higher earning bracket and may even be more likely to be home owners .
Gender identity
Eight of the 10 local authorities with the largest proportion of the population aged 16 years and over whose gender identity was different from their sex at birth were in London, with Newham (1.51%) and Brent (1.31%) having the highest proportions. The two non-London local authorities with the highest proportions were Oxford (1.25%) and Norwich (1.07%). In Wales, the local authorities with the highest percentages were Cardiff (0.71%) and Ceredigion (0.70%).
In terms of specific gender identities, Brent and Newham also had the highest percentages who identified as a trans man (0.28% and 0.25%, respectively), while Barking and Dagenham had the highest percentage who identified as a trans woman (0.25%).
In Wales, Cardiff had the highest percentage who identified as a trans man (0.12%), and had the highest percentage who identified as a trans woman (0.13%).
The five local authorities with the highest proportion of the population aged 16 years and over who identified as non-binary were all outside London. Brighton and Hove had the highest percentage (0.35%), followed by Norwich (0.33%) and Cambridge (0.26%). Ceredigion (0.23%) had the highest percentage of people who identified as non-binary of any local authority in Wales.
Sexual orientation
The local authority with the largest LGB+ population among those aged 16 years and over was Brighton and Hove (10.7%). Seven of the other local authorities in the top 10 were in London, with the largest LGB+ populations residing in the City of London (10.3%), Lambeth (8.3%), and Southwark (8.1%). In Wales, the local authorities with the largest LGB+ populations were Cardiff (5.3%), Ceredigion (4.9%), and Swansea (3.4%).
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Wow if this is true its surely illegal