‘The Trans Rights Alliance has put forward Steph Richards, a transgender woman in possession of a GRC, as its candidate for women’s officer’

The Scottish Greens have ditched their quotas as they were based on gender, not sex, and they refuse to acknowldge sex as a defining characteristic. "“As a proudly feminist party which recognises that trans women are women, and that non-binary people exist and are valid, it was never an option to adopt gender balancing measures which would erase these identities."

Feminist my arse.

www.holyrood.com/news/view,scottish-greens-abandon-genderbalance-quotas-after-supreme-court-ruling

I bet some bonkers CLP is planning to test that rule right now.

Other men, obvs.

Mixed sex shortlists aren’t illegal, but any that was just women and “trans women” would be open to challenge from men.

How can a mixed sex short list be illegal?

Pretty sure those are illegal.

Call me cynical but I get the feeling that we just won't see the use of all women short lists from now on. Just lists that happen by pure coincidence to contain actual women and trans women.

The extreme activists had already decided though that Starmer had abandoned them.

This is really just further fuel to that fire.

There are going to be some almighty tantrums…

Thats... pretty unequivocal. I'm actually kind of staggered!

Yep!

Wow, only took 8 years to get there!

Well, looking at this link, it seems like this is significant.

https://labour.org.uk/resources/supreme-court-judgment-faqs/

Can we operate an All Women Shortlist (AWS) for our upcoming selection process?

The Party can use single sex shortlists lawfully only when biological women are underrepresented among the Party’s current cohort in the relevant legislative body. For example, the AWS provisions in the Rule Book may only be applied in local government selections where the Labour group is not currently comprised of a majority of biological women.

Can we include trans women in an AWS?

The Supreme Court judgement has clarified that all-women shortlists must be single sex. This means that only biological women are eligible to apply for selections run on the basis of the AWS provisions in in the Rule Book.

Exactly @TheOtherRaven all “trans” all the time.

No no no this goes:

You have a trans officer (who is trans)

You have an LGBT+ officer (who is trans)

and a women's officer (who is trans)

Mysteriously, all three will be male.

And be interested in NOTHING at any time other than themselves trans issues.

And this is somehow supposed to be ok.

This is just a re- run of 2018. This time its going to play out differently.
https://www.thetimes.com/article/784edb8a-02e1-11e8-9de1-e6776d524215?shareToken=da5e5d70c221a5566aff4a73fedcc82f

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 a “secret hit list” submitted to party officials.

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. She says that she supports greater representation of transgender people but that that should not mean fewer places for those born female.

If they are a Trans group within labour, the majority if not all the members of which will be trans, wouldn't it be perfectly legal to have a post of "Transwomen's Officer" only open to TW and "Transmen's Officer" only open to transmen?

Why would they not just do that?

Hmmm,🤔

Not just women, the best women, better at womaning than actual women who keep doing it wrong. 🙄

Relentlessly bang on about their transness is A OK, but don't forget using a gender neutral toilet would be outting!

I wonder how many times we have told them this would come and the longer they stuck their heads in the sand and their arses in the air, the worse it would be when it happened?

No, no sympathy whatsoever here either. Actions say a lot more than the waffle does and the actions have not valued or cared about women in any way.

I feel a bit sorry for the Labour Party having to deal with this.

Just joking! I might have done at one time but now I have no sympathy whatsoever.

They cancelled (sorry ‘postponed’) their own women’s conference rather than deal with this head on. And now here we are.

I went to a music event recently and the headline artist was trans. The event was not in any way related to trans rights and I didn't even know they were trans before I went as I was purely into the music. They had to bang on at the end about trans this and trans that and I was just thinking...shut up, it's irrelevant.

I miss Emma Barnett on Woman’s Hour.

I remember them being sure to make a point that endometriosis wasn’t in any way a women’s issue because men got it too, both “trans men” and actual men 🙄

Smuggy McSmugface.