Green mayoral candidate Zoe Garbett was out in Stratford speaking to women and non-binary people about their experiences of safety or unsafety on the transport network.
Ms Garbett has pledged to treat misogyny as a hate crime if elected as mayor of London.
Ms Garbett has pledged to treat misogyny as a hate crime if elected as mayor of London.
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00:00 Yeah, so I'm here as the Green Party candidate for Mayor of London and I'm here with some
00:03 candidates who are standing for the Assembly and we're just talking to women and non-binary
00:09 people about their experiences of safety or unsafety on the transport network and just
00:14 getting their ideas about what would make them feel safer and talking about my plan
00:17 for the city.
00:18 Yeah, so we're hearing lots of things from people today, things as simple as better signs
00:23 and navigation so people can get around, but also people just feeling safer in that they've
00:27 got people that they know they can turn to if anything goes wrong and what I'm shocked
00:32 to have found out is that the Met does not record when a crime has been motivated or
00:36 worsened by the hatred of women, sometimes referred to as misogyny, so that means that
00:41 when a crime is committed against a woman, the police aren't actually recording if that
00:45 was motivated by hatred against women and that's what I think the Met need to be doing,
00:49 they need to be reporting that, looking into it, making sure that they're then addressing
00:55 it, because if you're not counting it, you're not taking it seriously enough and you're
00:58 not addressing it, so that's one of the most important differences I think that I'd make
01:04 as the Mayor of London.
01:05 Yeah, so trans and non-binary people are subjected to some of the worst discrimination and hatred
01:09 in our society, I'm very proud of standing up for the rights of trans people, I've worked
01:14 in the NHS about improving trans people's access to healthcare, because of the discrimination
01:19 that they experience in society and within healthcare, it makes their access to healthcare
01:24 really difficult and therefore their health worse, which is something that I care really
01:27 passionately about, so I think this is about listening to people, it's about addressing
01:30 that discrimination in wider society, it's about training our staff better so they are
01:35 looking out for people and that trans and non-binary people know that the wider community
01:40 has their back and that staff are willing to step in and help them and I just think
01:46 it's, yeah, it's this whole approach about an inclusive London.