Official Labour statement on AWS

[BelaLugosisShed]

Good news, presumably?
I want to know where that leaves a certain womens officer, surely that ruling counts for every Labour post?

just5morepeas yes legally we do but the NHS, like the labour party, have slipped in self-ID in their guidance. Hence the woman who requested a female HCP to do her smear and was instead presented with a TW, and the woman on a locked female psychiatric ward who was traumatised by having to share with a TW.

'Guidance' is open to challenge where it interprets the law incorrectly.

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I'm not sure, I mean it was decades ago I read up on it but, something like "if one could reasonably expect express term A to include A+B" then the contractor would have committed no wrongdoing.
So "Woman" could be found to mean "Woman+Transwoman" when put to a test.
Worried but not hopeless!

We do have those rights, unfortunately the places that should be upholding them are more concerned with Males and their feelings.
I hope that the woman put in a secure MH ward with a TiM sues the NHS for breaking the law surrounding legal exemptions. I want to know why that Hospital thought it not necessary to uphold her sex-based rights.

We would then have to be living in a world in which someone told 'woman' would reasonably be thought to have acted properly if they assumed 'women and people with XY chromosomes and a dick' surely that's a stretch?!

Nhs guidance re transgender here www.wpath.org/site_page.cfm?pk_association_webpage_menu=1351&pk_association_webpage=3926

I know Jo Maugham professionally. I’m disappointed in him. I thought he was a critical thinker and a feminist ally.

Watch them all fall down, eh?

They all crumble.

Maybe he is both those things, but also a coward

I think it is how they get through all boys school - sort of appear to agree with the ones that are shouting, then pretend they were on the other side if that goes wrong, coz they 'didn't do it'. Avoidance of bullying and no principles.

Wow so gutted at the QC’s 180 degree turn.

He was clearly bullied into a retraction.

I see the LibDems are all over this, saying that they will continue to use self id in selection procedures and condemning Labour for ‘caving in’ to pressure
Don’t they have any Lawyers to put them straight? They are also saying that they have more Trans members of any party.

Alisder Calder McGregor is saying that the ‘group’ who are crowdfunding drove him to a mental breakdown in 2014 - it’s very bizarre.

Sigh, well that's that then. Absolutely no-one to vote for when I come back to the uk. Not that it matters, because I'm your standard, egg-bearing woman, so not worth listening to.

Not that it matters, because I'm your standard, egg-bearing woman, so not worth listening to

I suppose being ignored frees you from the obligation to participate in the process eventually.............hmmmmmm seen that somewhere.........

Alisder Calder McGregor is saying that the ‘group’ who are crowdfunding drove him to a mental breakdown in 2014 Odd and weird - some of them only got together to be added over the last week, never mind 2014 - he must be on another planet or a different life

I don’t know if he means Jennifer/Labour or Alien lizards!

Really not happy about the Lib Dem’s. Tim Farron is my MP and when I wrote to him he was incredibly cautious but seemed supportive. The problem of course is that everyone thinks Tim is against gay marriage (he’s not) so it wouldn’t be difficult for some twat to add transphobia to the list of Tim’s crimes

So, so disappointed by Jo Maugham. I guess it's very hard to stick to your guns when people are screaming you're transphobic and a bigot. It sounds like personal friends of his expressed dismay and maybe if they were women he respected, he didn't want to upset them.

Extra gutting that he wants to pass the funds on to Mermaids of all people.

Plenty of women have stuck to their guns in the face of far worse. But this issue doesn't REALLY matter to men much, that's the difference.

Jo Maugham has been fired from (I assume a voluntary) position as head of legal for a brexit campaign group.

@jmsclee
Jolyon I am the Head of The #FollowBackProEurope Movement and after this public embarrassment I'm saddened to announce we've made the difficult decision to ask you step down from your position as Head of Legal for Stopping Brexit. I hope you understand.

You can retract and apologise and pledge cash to support the people you've offended, but you're still out.

Fucking hell

Although actually that might be a pisstaker

Who knows anymore

That is hard to believe even thought it seems to be true. I never would have thought it was that bad.

Maybe they mean the public embarassment of backing down from their original position after a couple of tweets from TRAs

Maybe too optomistic

Bah, my instincts were right. It's a piss taker.

Though if he knew people had complained to his employer(even if its voluntary), that could explain the sudden change of heart and furious backpeddling

Ahh. Pisstaker makes more sense