Have only just seen this:
At its annual conference starting on Tuesday 23rd May, PCS – Public and Commercial Services Union, the largest civil-service union – is planning to debate motions that denigrate gender-critical civil servants and the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
The motions seek to commit the union to a political stance about legalising gender self-ID, and to slip gender identities into government policy via a data system for civil-service HR data. Meanwhile, as the media have already reported, there is a motion calling for BDSM (Bondage, Discipline, Sadism and Masochism) training for civil servants.
https://sex-matters.org/posts/freedom-of-speech/should-a-civil-service-union-promote-harassment-and-discrimination/
I'm assuming they are talking about this:
• UK Law does not contain the concept of “Sex
based Rights” but operates from a standpoint of
equal rights
• The Equality Act 2010 lays out very clear rights to
exclude people with the protected characteristic
of Gender Reassignment where it is a proportional
means to achieving a legitimate aim, and that these
provisions are an exception, not the rule, to be
applied on a case-by-case basis.
This conference believes:
• Biological reductionism is harmful to all women
and forms the basis of many patriarchal notions of
biology as destiny.
• The suffragettes fought for equal rights, and against
the sex-based rights of men, and this is the basis of
modern progressive feminism.
• Sex is not binary and to say so excludes people with
differences of sexual development amongst others.
This conference further believes:
• The SEEN promotes a regressive ideology which
seeks to be exclusionary and is detrimental to the
rights of all women.
• The stated aims of SEEN will promote division and
exclusion in the workplace, and could create an
unfounded atmosphere of fear towards people with
the protected characteristic of gender reassignment
This conference calls on the NEC:
• To express our concerns to the Cabinet Office
regarding its support for the establishment of the
SEEN
• To produce and circulate a branch bulletin
confirming the legal position that the protected
characteristic of sex includes legal sex, and the
proper application of the provisions of the Equality
Act 2010 regarding the exclusion of people with the
protected characteristic of Gender Reassignment
according to the EHRC statutory guidance
• To produce and circulate a members’ bulletin
reaffirming PCS support for Trans inclusion in
the workplace, the understanding that Trans
rights and women’s rights are not in opposition,
our commitment to the Public Sector Duty, and
opposition to exclusionary ideologies that reduce
the complexities and reality of our identity and lived
experiences to the biological characteristics of sex
alone.
A43
Covers E176, E177, E178
DWP Bradford (047002)
HMRC Glasgow (200119)
https://sex-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/PCS-MOTIONS-BOOK.pdf
Does anyone know what happened?