Do you recognise that it was an oversight not to include the health inequalities of trans Londoners in your health inequalities strategy and will you be rectifying this in your next strategy?

Thank you for the Committee’s continued championing of trans Londoners. My Heath Inequalities Strategy (HIS), and the recently published implementation plan focus on the social, economic and environmental issues which drive differences in health. A great deal of the HIS supports trans Londoners, including policies and programmes around mental health and HIV prevention and treatment. The HIS is a strategy for all Londoners, and it is not possible in such a broad-ranging strategy to specifically identify all groups with protected characteristics. The HIS was and continues to be informed through engagement with Londoners from many different backgrounds, including trans and non-binary Londoners. This includes roundtables held to inform “Beyond the Data One Year On” and throughout the pandemic as part of the London Community Response Survey. I also engage trans stakeholders through my Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group which includes specific expertise on trans issues, including relating to health.