'I'm a trans TV star, if my rights can be erased - yours will be next'
MAFS UK star Ella Morgan candidly discusses her lived experience as a transgender woman following the Supreme Court ruling earlier this year over what constitutes as a 'woman'
Ella Morgan is no stranger to making history, she became the first transgender woman to appear on Married At First Sight UK star, and continues to be an inspiring, vocal advocate for transgender rights using her ever-blossoming platform.
Ella, 31, has appeared on podcasts, where she's spoken candidly about her experience as a transgender woman and is never afraid to speak out as she continues to push for the well-needed rights for the transgender community. Something she's even more determined to do after the Supreme Court's catastrophic ruling in April that ruled the term 'woman' and 'sex' refer to biological sex and not gender identity. Now, in light of Trans Awareness Month this November, Ella has heartbreakingly discussed with the Mirror how her she now feels attacked and erased from society following that regressive ruling in April.
"We need to do more to educate people especially this year, after April, trans people are still so much – more than ever I'd probably say – under attack. We're being erased from society.
"I'm struggling to get my hormones, you're not allowed to use the changing rooms that fit with your gender, and this is all legal, whereas before people had their opinions of trans people, and where we exist, and what we should do and not do, but we could still live a life and kind of do what we wanted. Whereas now that it's become a legal thing, we have less rights.
"When you start picking on a minority, it then becomes easy for politicians and the law to follow suit and erase other minorities. They could ban abortion, they could ban gay marriage, if they can do this to a community that make up less than one percent of the population, what else can they do? If my rights can be erased - yours will be next!
It scares me. If you think that they're going to stop at just us, then you're completely wrong. That's why, Trans Awareness Month, and especially Trans Awareness Week is so important.
"There are so many different things and layers that we've worked hard on throughout the years, educating and trying to inspire people and raise awareness, and then within the space of a month, all of that was gone and stripped away, and it makes me quite sad, and frightened."
She continues: "I've always said I will go to Parliament and I will do everything I can from my end, with the amazing team that I've got, to try and change things. But we need the funds. It's not about shoving a narrative or an agenda down anyone's throat, because that's not what it is. We're trans, we're just trying to live our lives authentically, and be seen as the gender that we've always recognised ourselves as being. That's simply all it is.
"We just want to exist like everyone else. It's important that we have that month to educate people, and show people that are naive, or uneducated to it all, how bad our existence is and how bad things are for trans people. We need that, so hopefully this month of November there will be people who will become educated, and listen, and hopefully support us.
"People with the biggest responsibility are non-trans people, we need more allies now than ever. People that are at the top of media, and radio, and film, and TV, and production, and podcast, they also bear a massive responsibility, because the biggest way to educate people is through the masses, and the biggest way to educate the masses is through media.
"After the ruling in April people thought if it doesn't affect them, they turn a blind eye to it. I just find that if people don't know anyone trans, then they think, 'well, because it doesn't affect me, I don't need to worry', and I think we need to stop living in that bubble, or that world, where I could easily say certain things don't affect me, but I'm still going to support my friends."
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