He also said it was 'wrong' for organisers of the LGBT event to exclude Ulster Rugby over its ban on transgender women playing in female contact rugby games.
He also said it was "wrong" for organisers of the LGBT event to exclude Ulster Rugby over its ban on transgender women playing in female contact rugby games.
Police first paraded in uniform at the event in 2017, but in withdrawing the PSNI said it had to balance "fairness, integrity and impartiality" obligations. "Their officers will still be there and are going to be there on the day and I believe they will have a stall at Pride as well." Each week, our Political Reporter Brendan Hughes pulls together some of the biggest and most important matters from Belfast and Northern Ireland that we think you’d be interested in reading.
He added: "A blanket ban doesn't respect the dignity of trans people in the way that a framework like the GAA has put in place does." It followed the Labour Party dropping a pledge to introduce self-ID if they enter government, saying that medical diagnosis upholds "confidence in the system". Mr Tennyson challenged the UUP leader, saying that self-ID "doesn't impact people's right to access single-sex spaces".
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