Political party responses to the Cass Review

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I've seen a number of comments from various Labour sources and from the PM.

But utter silence from the Lib Dems, Greens & SNP.

Can anyone direct me to their statements?

Here's the archived Green statement.

web.archive.org/web/20240416154240/www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2024/04/16/green-party-statement-on-the-cass-review/

Very intrigued to see what they eventually put out.

They have form for acting independently of the main party, but are highly influential. They control the main party in practice.

Here is an image of the Green Party of England and Wales's response - measured and reasonable I would say _ but it only appeared on the party's website for about an hour and was then taken down. Earlier the party's LGBTQ+ group had posted its own review of the report on X/twitter but their X account has been taken down by X since for breaching their rules, but in what way we don't know. The first few words remain on the link if you search for it on google, and from those it appears to have been a rant against the report. I searched just now for the LibDem offical response. There was a hit for it but the link led to a dead end, so has that been taken down too?

Scottish Labour now pushing to implement the Cass Report in Scotland. Big implications for Scottish and internal Labour politics: www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5057294-scottish-labour-back-implementing-cass-report-in-scotland

I've got a gender critical PPC to vote for! There's an SDP candidate standing in my constituency on a gender critical platform.

With all the Cass stuff currently in the headlines and the SDP candidate making this a battleground area for the election, I've emailed the Lib Dem and Labour PPCs to get a sense of what their personal views are. I would be happy to vote for a candidate whose personal views don't align with the party because that's the only way you actually get change (plus the vote for SDP would really just be a protest vote). This constituency is fairly true blue but Lib Dems are in second. They shouldn't give away any votes at all if they want to have a chance of swinging it.

Interesting to see this start to emerge as a battleground area for the election...