LGBT+ Labour Suspends AGM inmitten von Befürchtungen wegen rechtlicher Schritte gegen Transkandidaten, die für Frauenrollen kandidieren
https://labourlist.org/2025/07/news-labour-lgbt-agm-suspends-trans-rights-women/
Von denyer-no1-fan
LGBT+ Labour Suspends AGM inmitten von Befürchtungen wegen rechtlicher Schritte gegen Transkandidaten, die für Frauenrollen kandidieren
https://labourlist.org/2025/07/news-labour-lgbt-agm-suspends-trans-rights-women/
Von denyer-no1-fan
8 Kommentare
If sex doesn’t matter for the role, surely the role should be open to anyone of any gender to apply for. If the members want to vote someone in, then isn’t that all that matters?
Considering labour is losing LGBT+ people in droves to Greens and Lib Dems I should think they’d be happy anyone was running, not threatening legal action
Simple solution: remove any gender requirements for any role.
That way there can be no question of discrimination or failure to apply the rules.
>It came after a new group, called the Trans Rights Alliance, backed a large slate of candidates in the elections, including chair and women’s officer.
Huh, that’s convenient… In response to trans people organising to try and actually have a voice in the politics that affects them, it’s now a legal risk to let them run for the positions that would allow them to have an impact.
Does no one’s serious see the absurdity of having ‘women’ only lists in order to increase or ensure the representation of women … that are filled with people born male. You can say we shouldn’t have them *at all*. But the idea that filling these positions with trans women fulfils the aim of increasing the representation of women (born female) is somewhat ridiculous. Would we really claim with a straight face that ‘women’ were fully and equally represented if the whole parliament were biologically male?
The number of trans people in the Labour Party cant be more than a tiny fraction of the membership and getting people to stand for positions of responsibility is hard enough anyway. Yet anti-trans fanatics demand we treat this molehill as a mountain range.
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Hopefully one positive outcome from this (fairly ridiculous) argument about identities is the end of reserved positions for particular demographics. If you let anyone stand for women’s officer, there is no legal case for discrimination. And let’s be honest, this kind of organisation is never going to elect a man to it anyway, even if one was brave enough to stand, so it wouldn’t even change the outcome.