Our email: nl.trans.forum@gmail.com
Contact us
Feel free to reach out to us with any questions, comments, or enquiries. We are here to support and educate the community.
note: please do not include sensitive or confidential information that you do not feel comfortable sharing.
The address of our next in person forum is TBD, and will be shown here when announced.
How to contact your local council members and members of parliament
As a person registered and living in London you have the right to contact your local MP. You can write to them in regards to issues in your area, things that are affecting you or your community or if you feel you have been mishandled or mistreated by a government service.
Read more about contacting local MPs here on the uk parliament website
You can also use websites such as Write To Them that helps support your reaching out to local parliament. On this site you can use your postcode to find your most appropriate local member of council and helps begin the writing process.
Note: Write to Them is a charity run website and may not have a comprehensive list of MPs. If you cannot find the details of your MP on here please submit feedback to them to update their service
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Metropolitan Police Community Liaison Officers
The Metropolitan police Community Liaison Officers (CLO's) are a group of people who work within the Met to advocate for the LGBT+ community, assist in investigation of hate crimes, support the LGBT+ community. The people who work as LGBT+ CLOs are passionate about advocating for the LGBT+ community and have been instrumental of the solving and support of hate crimes in London. We work closely with the CLO's in North London to ensure a continuous advocacy of the community within the Met and to allow continuous communication between the community and the Met.
The North London CLO's and the NLTF are well aware that trust between the police and the LGBT+ community has been broken for a long time, for very good reason. We are working now together to try and rebuild that confidence. The NLTF is of the belief that we cant support the community without knowing the community. Much of the community is not reporting their hate crimes and so go unheard, unsolved, and often a continuous traumatic experience for that person. We hope by working with the CLO's and the community we can help repair the trust. And therefore, protect our community.
How to report a hate crime:
In the UK a hate crime is any criminal offense that is perceived to be motivated by hostility or prejudice based on disability, race, religion, transgender identity or sexual orientation. Transgender people are more likely to be targets of physical violence or sexual harassment than anyone else in the LGBT+ community. 88% of transgender people wont report their hate crimes and so statistics are notoriously hard to accurately quantify. We want to encourage people to report crimes as they happen as this helps the police know where crime is being committed more, can understand patterns and shows the government there is a real issue here.
You can report hate crimes if you are a victim or witness in multiple ways.
If there is an emergency you can contact the police on 999.
If it is not an emergency you can call 101 to speak with your local police.
You can report your hate crimes online HERE or using sites such as Stop Hate UK
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