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Labour party plan to ensure women's posts are for women only.

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ArabellaScott · 19/05/2025 22:06

And activists are not happy.

'The proposals to restrict trans members’ engagement in internal democratic procedures - including by blocking trans women from standing in All Women’s Shortlists, excluding them from National Women’s Conferences, and preventing them standing as Women’s Officers'

www.prideinlabour.org.uk/post/joint-statement-in-response-to-leaked-nec-paper

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Imnobody4 · 19/05/2025 23:08

Sorry I'm going down memory lane.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/784edb8a-02e1-11e8-9de1-e6776d524215?shareToken=abfb4897a5f7c2edf1c887630fbfe369

Jennifer James, 51, a Labour activist, set up the campaign this month to fund a legal challenge to the decision to open all-women shortlists up to “all self- defining women” regardless of their legal gender.
Two days after setting up the group, the names of Ms James, a former physics teacher from Liverpool, and dozens of other supporters appeared on a list compiled by members of a closed Facebook group called Labour Against Transphobia. The group is run by Aisling Musson, a political science student at the University of York and disabled students officer at the university’s students union. Its members include Angela Rayner, the shadow education secretary, and Wes Streeting, Labour MP for Ilford North.

Labour suspends activist in transgender row

The founder of a crowdfunding campaign to bar transgender women from all-women shortlists has been suspended from the Labour Party after her name appeared on

https://www.thetimes.com/article/784edb8a-02e1-11e8-9de1-e6776d524215?shareToken=abfb4897a5f7c2edf1c887630fbfe369

SionnachRuadh · 19/05/2025 22:54

Memo to Labour:

Listen to what Nadia Whittome is saying. Then do the opposite.

It's not rocket science.

WorriedMutha · 19/05/2025 22:42

Let the bun fight begin.
The cancer needs flushing out of Labour. A good scrap will force the cowards off the fence.

eatfigs · 19/05/2025 22:27

Too little too late.

Circumferences · 19/05/2025 22:25

Ugh

Mad Madigan takes me right back.

This person peaked me more than anyone.

I'm grateful to the labour party for their possibly empty words because we will have to see. They are not exactly reliable at the moment.

bellinisurge · 19/05/2025 22:23

Popcorn at the ready

Imnobody4 · 19/05/2025 22:22

Grief, this takes me back. 2018 when I left the Labour Party.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43962349.amp

'But Lily Madigan, who became Labour's first transgender women's officer in December, said she welcomed their departure as anyone holding such views did not belong in the party.'

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Labour: Row over inclusion of trans women in all-women shortlists - BBC News

Labour disputes claims 300 members have quit in protest at transgender women being included in all-women shortlists.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43962349.amp

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ArabellaScott · 19/05/2025 22:12

'A Labour Women’s Declaration spokesperson said: “We are of course pleased that the party is finally aware that it must comply with the Equality Act. However, cancelling our conference for fear of protests against a women’s event, is not the answer.”
“We feel it would be a knee jerk reaction to cancel. We call on the NEC to consider very carefully such an incendiary action as cancelling the single major policy-making conference of the party which focuses on issues affecting women.
“We are shocked that hundreds of women in the Labour Party might be prevented from meeting at conference because the NEC would prefer to disadvantage all women rather than to exclude the very small number of trans-identified men who may wish to attend the women’s conference.'

from link above

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ArabellaScott · 19/05/2025 22:07

'LabourList has seen a paper circulated to members of the party’s national executive committee, which warns of a “significant risk of a legal challenge” – as well as “protests, direct action and heightened security risks” if the women’s conference goes ahead as initially planned in Liverpool this September on the basis of attendee self-identification.'

https://labourlist.org/2025/05/labour-women-policy-conference-shortlists-all-trans-rights-sex/

Party to delay women’s conference and exclude trans people from women’s officer roles over Supreme court ruling – LabourList

Labour is set to indefinitely postpone its national women's conference and limit  women's officer roles and all-women shortlists to biological women while it reviews its…

https://labourlist.org/2025/05/labour-women-policy-conference-shortlists-all-trans-rights-sex/

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