Orangesnake, I am assuming this means that the Lib Dem’s support self-ID for anyone who comes under the Stonewall trans-umbrella. And that where there is potentially conflict, for example the rights of women prisoners, or child protection principles, trans trumps all.
There is conflict. Even on an individual level I don’t want to have to share changing rooms with naked people with penises. I don’t want my mother with dementia to have to share a hospital ward or a care home room with someone she would consider a man. Prisons, women’s refuges, Girl Guides, Muslim students etc.
For most things I really don’t care. The person in the cafe last week may have been male or female or trans...honestly I have no idea even though I was trying to work it out. But the coffee was good and the sandwich was fine, so I will go back.
No doubt the LibDems with their fine carefully considered policies don’t consider my concerns as legitimate, and see them as on par with being racist, so plan to dismiss them altogether. However the reality of politics is that if a party dismisses my concerns I don’t vote for them. And there are more people like me, than those who are attracted by TWAW purism. (And the Labour Party is competing for that voter demographic as well.)
I live in a constituency which the LibDems see as one they could win from Labour. At the last election I explained to a charming elderly man that I was concerned about the aggressive/misogynistic tone used on the LibDem LGBT+++ twitter feed. He was unaware and promised to check. I won’t vote LibDems next time out. And perhaps the lovely canvasser will stay at home. LibDems will have the purist party they want, but they need to recognise that this will come at the expense of voter support.