Blessing Olubanjo

Blessing Olubanjo is standing against Camden Council’s decision to have four trans-coloured road crossings that celebrate the discredited Tavistock Clinic.

Camden Borough Council is facing legal action over a transgender pedestrian crossing which celebrates Tavistock Clinic, a gender identity clinic found by the Cass Review to have ‘systematically failed’ vulnerable children.

If the Council fails to take action by removing the crossing, Mrs Olubanjo, who is a long-time Camden resident and a member of the Christian Peoples’ Alliance Party, will seek a declaration of unlawfulness, through Judicial Review proceedings.

The crossing, located at Tavistock Clinic and Marchmont Street, are painted in the colours of the transgender pride flag (blue, pink and white). It was installed by the Council in November 2021 to mark Transgender Awareness Week and ‘in honour’ of The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust (Tavistock clinic).

The council has since tried to bury and distance the crossings’ association with the controversial clinic.

Blessing Olubanjo said: “I brought this case because I believe in fairness, freedom of belief, and the proper role of public institutions. As a Christian and a taxpayer, I should not be made to feel excluded or marginalised by political symbols in public spaces.

“This crossing sends a message that only one viewpoint is welcome, and that’s not right in a truly democratic society. I’m standing up not just for myself, but for everyone who feels silenced or sidelined by discredited harmful activism forced on the public by ideologically captured local authorities.”

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