twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1542825291273363456?s=20&t=cGbkq-bi6icR8osxjKW-Pw
“The Labour Party will:
Ban all conversion therapy
Protect and uphold the Equality Act
Require employers to create workplaces free from LGBT+ harassment
Bring in tougher sentences for LGBT+ hate crimes
Modernise the outdated Gender Recognition Act.”
It says a lot that after months of criticism about a lack of identifiable policy, one of the first concrete statements from Labour is on this subject.
What do they mean “workplaces free from LGBT+ harassment”? Isn’t there already protection under the law from harassment due to sexuality or gender reassignment? And why should one protected characteristic attract higher sentences for hate crimes than any other? Finally of course they throw in the dear old “we will protect the EqA” without seemingly any consideration of whether this is consistent with (eg) reforming the GRA (and no details of how it will be modernised, I see).
Meanwhile Wes Streeting tweets “my lifetime I’ve seen, been part of, and benefited from, the onward march towards LGBT equality, but those who would turn the clock back are visible, well-funded and organised.” Who could he possibly be taking a pot shot at?