Lib Dem conference big vote on supporting women's rights tomorrow

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Vote tomorrow at the conference with major implications

Lib Dem conference ‘descends into culture wars’ with trans vote
Party wrong to debate pro-trans proposals that will ‘be weaponised against us’, say campaigners

Published 20 September 2026 6:45pm BST
The Liberal Democrats have been accused of “taking a sledgehammer to women’s rights” by debating proposals for more “inclusive” rules on single-sex spaces.
The party will vote on Monday on a proposal to scrap new guidance banning transgender women, who are born male, from female toilets and changing rooms at its annual conference.
The plans are set out in an emergency motion selected by Lib Dem members, which will also force the party to take a firm stance on whether “trans women are women”.
Liberal Voice for Women, a Lib Dem group campaigning for sex-based rights, warned the policy would be pushed through by a conference “stacked with activists” and force the party “back into the culture wars”.
The backlash threatens to embroil the Lib Dem conference in a transgender row for a second year running, despite Sir Ed Davey insisting on Saturday that he led “the most united party in British politics”.
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Sorry, I've lost track.

Jude is talking about parliament and government.

'Culture of handwringing and permissiveness at the top (in Libdems)'
'Hold HQ to account'
'be civil, disobey'

Brave to voice those two choices, we all know it will be the latter

Zoe Hollowood

;in 2026, are women allowed rights? Rights to safety, dignity, the right to say no?'

Trans claims have run out of road. Realism has prevailed in the public mind.

I'm voting this fellas way.

Interesting. Increasingly unsure what the difference between the Lib dems and the Geeens is.

'let's consider the implications of including males into women's spaces. Darlington nurses allowed to use women's changing rooms, talking about 'Rose' and the case

'You are not my concern' to a vicitm of CSA asking for female single sex care.'

Zoe is great, but she is also fast, I cannot keep up!

'There's more than one way to be a man'

'conference, we have women'#s rights, privacy, dignity, safety. On the other hand, yhou have the feelings of some men. May be an awkward conversation

if we pass this motion we are telling women they are 2nd class citizens and handing Reform an easy win'

Muted applause. Shitebags.

Zoe was amazing, absolutely to the point, clear and bold.

At least they don't seem to be shouting them down, progress of sorts.

I missed whoever this is, talking in support.

I suspect conference going to support this stupid, fuckwit notion.

The commentary sounds like the lib dems are building a massive pyre and then throwing themselves onto it

Well, yes, but honestly, it's too late. They are high on their own farts.

Zoe is now being castigated for 'misgendering' Rose Henderson.

I don't know who this fuckwit is but I am out of patience.

Hell mend you, Libdems.

I despair

I can't watch anymore. It's unbearable. They're a lost cause.

Vote now. Overwhelmingly in favour.

Motion carried.

And we take another step forward on the path to a Reform government.

Ffs

Thanks for the commentary thus far anyway.

The end of the lib dems?

I 'm assuming that most of you know the work of Dr Zoe Hollowood, but if you don't, you might like the cut of her jib

Ah, I see from the OP's update that she (ie: ZH) is heavily involved.

Splendid.

Crazy, absolutely mad, with a completely captured crowd.
Jennie something was really really angry
Surely not the best candidate to 'summate' or whatever the term is.
Thought she was going to blow a fuse