Sorry - that’s new info for me! Still, there should be as many WO as there are constituencies, so we’re looking at two TW out of 650. Each branch can theoretically have a WO but it’s likely only the biggest branches do (plus a few smaller branches with particularly committed WR’s activists living in them. Might see if I can make the position exist at our next AGM).
(These positions are elected btw, but unpaid, and the elections are decided purely on how many members turn up for the vote. Women, of course, find it harder to attend political meetings because they usually happen on weekday evenings and women are statistically more likely to be child wrangling or caring for elderly relatives in their ‘free’ time).
Lily M’s position will be voted on again at the next AGM for LM’s CLP, perhaps even sooner, depending on whether LM decides to make LM’s new student residence LM’s main address or not.
For the record, I absolutely believe transpeople have the right to political representation, and I would support any motions/campaigns that formalised that within the party (ie, having seperate trans officers at CLP level rather than being lumped in with LGB officers, after all, the issues are not the same) I just don’t think that the political issues that affect women-as-an-oppressed-class are the same ones that Transwomen face. In addition, adding TW to women-only shortlists does nothing for trans representation in parliament overall (because transmen and non-binary people are excluded).