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Hang on - Labour manifesto references single-sex exemptions

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PanemEtCircenses · 21/11/2019 11:50

Page 65 of Labour manifesto.
“Ensure that the single-sex-based exemptions contained in the Equality Act 2010 are understood and fully enforced in service provision.”

Are they actually listening?
Might I have an option beyond spoiling my ballot?
Also, misogyny a hate crime.

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PanemEtCircenses · 21/11/2019 12:08

Certain people are expressing anger about this already. Apparently it’ll make people with a penis not want to be a Labour Woman’s Officer. Shame.

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LangCleg · 21/11/2019 12:07

That's better than I thought it would be.

Single sex to them is : anyone who self identifies into the sex that takes their fancy that particular morning.

No, the manifesto is with regard to single sex exemptions in EqA. They're saying they'll make it easier to get a GRC but tighten up the limitations to the entitlements the GRC affords - so protecting refuges, rape crisis services, etc.

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PanemEtCircenses · 21/11/2019 12:03

God knows, Sydney.

But, my initial instinct is that this opens up debate on all that rather than closing it down. Perhaps I’m grasping at straws, but this feels
better than the absolute travesty I expected from “I’m Jeremy Corbyn and my pronouns are he/him”.

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GetbusywiththeFizzee · 21/11/2019 12:03

Labour and promises in the same sentence?
Don’t believe a word they say.

Single sex to them is : anyone who self identifies into the sex that takes their fancy that particular morning.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 21/11/2019 11:59

Labour had just done too much harm in my eyes - this and other issues. I wouldn't trust a single one of them to hold my pint.

SydneyCarton · 21/11/2019 11:57

Page 68 talks about GRA reform to include “self declaration” for transgender people though. How do they square the two things?

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PanemEtCircenses · 21/11/2019 11:56

I’ll definitely be asking my candidate that, Fekko.

Hang on - Labour manifesto references single-sex exemptions
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Siameasy · 21/11/2019 11:54

There’s two threads on this
If they reform the GRA what will “single sex” mean for real?

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 21/11/2019 11:53

just ask them what a woman is, and who is able to join their woman only shortlists and take up womans officer positions.

tiktok · 21/11/2019 11:51

Blimey.....keep reading :)