There’s some really crucial intelligence provided by Suzanne in that article.
Firstly, behind the scenes, the TRAs in the party have been given assurances.
“But yesterday, Russell-Moyle told me that he, for one, is broadly on board. “There are parts of how the leadership’s announcement has been interpreted that I think goes further than the compromise,” he says. “I have expressed that to them.”
Second, the TRAs in the party are going to re-brand self-ID as ‘de-medicalisation’, and campaign for the GRC process to be the same as getting the back of your new passport photo signed before you send off the passport application.
“Self-ID is a poor policy name for demedicalisation, which is what I support. I want to make it clear that demedicalisation is vital.” He adds: ‘We can achieve this through a process of external verification and can be achieved with other non medical professionals (social workers, councillors etc).”
Third, they are sticking to their women do not have an automatic right to single-sex female-only spaces, facilities and services policy, as they are sticking to their case-by-case basis position/ campaign.
“Crucially, Russell-Moyle tells me, “I am also pleased that we will keep the current system of sex and gender reassignment-protected characteristics in the Equality Act, giving flexibility for people to make exclusions based on biological sex, legal sex and gender reassignment on a case by case basis using the legal principle ‘proportionate means for a legitimate aim’.”