At a Labour Conference fringe event for LGBTQ+ activists on 28 September, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party said the government is guilty of creating a “campaign of hate” at the expense of transgender people. “Hate crimes have been soaring, bullying, discrimination, anti-LGBT hate,” Rayner shared. “There is a mental health crisis that is hitting our LGBT communities especially hard. “I have to say that there is a campaign of hate coming out of this government. “Ministers are looking at vulnerable people, they’re looking at our trans community, they are looking at people’s identities and they see it as an opportunity to divide people.