i’ve just been having a laugh at the wording of this paragraph - an extract from the London Plan -:

“The London Plan recognises that the benefit of growth must be targeted to address the needs of groups who historically have had difficulty in gaining access to them. These groups are people with disabilities, older people, children and young people, women, black and minority ethnic groups, refugees and asylum seekers, gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and trans-people”

that sounds like just about everybody then! lemme see - who have they left out? only non-disabled young straight white men? [if you fall into that category i suggest you start a petition/have a demonstration in front of the GLA or something like that. you might spot my ' and what about the pigeons?' placard.]

do you think next time i have to tick those boxes that classify us homo sapiens into so many categories i can tick “trans-people” - i rather like the sound of that. maybe we could start a trend, mystify the statisticians with the sudden increase in no’s of ‘trans-people’.

( now none of this is a dig at ken and his plan just in case that’s what you were thinking. i like the use of the word ‘historically’ as well - just in case someone thought that being unable to access services easily was something biologically determined..or some nonsense like that..)

p.s. maybe i won’t get away with swiping this pic off the GLA site..i’d better say this is courtesy of the GLA. i just thought it went so well with this posting, i couldn’t resist..