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The Government must reform the Gender Recognition Act based on self-declaration says GMB in letter to Liz Truss

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stumbledin · 15/08/2020 19:26

GMB union has today written to the Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, Liz Truss around the Prime Minister’s recent remarks to halt reform of the Gender Recognition Act which would allow people to change their legal gender by self-declaration.

The letter asks the Government to reform the Gender Recognition Act based on self-declaration and urges them to do more to tackle discrimination against trans and non-binary people.

As a trade union we pride ourselves on being welcoming to all and with rising hate crime against trans people we have a responsibility to stand up for their right to live with dignity, privacy and respect, free from fear, isolation and discrimination in the workplace and wider society.

www.gmb.org.uk/news/government-must-tackle-discrimination-against-trans-and-non-binary-people

Letter (pdf) www.gmb.org.uk/sites/default/files/TRUSS_GRA_Letter_FINAL.pdf

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beargrass · 15/08/2020 20:14

I binned my subs to this mob long before it was fashionable to do so. They've not cared about women for a long, long time. And now we see that they also don't care about children either. This position isn't one that could represent a social worker who intervened because parents were pushing their child down the affirmation path, for example.

highame · 15/08/2020 20:08

The Gender Misogynistic Bollocks, don't know of a union that truly supports women.

BaronessWrongCrowd · 15/08/2020 19:59

Well they can Foxtrot Oscar. Women's rights are not theirs to give away.

PersonWithFeelings · 15/08/2020 19:58

The GMB who are up to their eyes in scandal about sexual harassment at national union level?

Very much this

gardenbird48 · 15/08/2020 19:53

with rising hate crime against trans people - I wish the people using this phrase actually understand what it refers to - in many cases using the Hate Crime laws as a tool of harassment against people that are absolutely not being hateful - just stating basic facts. Obviously if there is some actual basis to this claim and what Joe Public would understand as hatred is being spread I would absolutely stand corrected but I would be interested in seeing some analysis of the actual content of the accusations and number of sources.

FloresTorres · 15/08/2020 19:49

The GMB who offered to do a rights advice thread on MN and then pulled it because they didn't like what was being discussed on FWR?
The GMB who are up to their eyes in scandal about sexual harassment at national union level?
The GMB who are quoting a dodgy YouGov survey as some kind of blblical truth?
Over fifty per cent of their members are women.
They stopped speaking up and supporting women a long time ago.