Party rules
The Liberal Democrats are facing a transgender row at their conference over party rules that allow biological men to take women’s posts. Gender-critical activists have launched an attempt to force Sir Ed Davey’s party to bar trans women from taking female roles.
The group, Liberal Voice for Women, will use the party’s annual meeting in Bournemouth, set to start on Saturday, to call for a vote on changing party rules, to bring them into line with April’s Supreme Court ruling. The current rules allow those who “self-identify as women” to stand for party posts set aside for women, which the activists say dilutes the chance that biological women can reach the top of the party.
What do you mean “which the activists say”?! Of course giving women’s posts to men dilutes the women’s chances to reach the top of the party! What else would it do?!
The vote will be put before conference on Saturday, but it is understood that trans rights activists will try to get it cancelled to avoid embarrassment. This is despite a YouGov poll showing that three-quarters of Lib Dem members do not support the party’s stance on allowing gender self-ID.
But they’re just members. They need to sit down and shut up and let the bosses give all the women’s party posts to men.
In May, Sir Ed said he accepted the Supreme Court ruling, but unlike Labour, he has done nothing to change the party’s rules.
Because it’s only women who are harmed so it doesn’t matter.
Zoe Hollowood, chairman of Liberal Voice for Women, said: “We hope that the conference will vote this time as traditional liberals and allow women to speak about updating our quotas.
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The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has urged public bodies to comply with the Supreme Court ruling, and its guidance to be published soon will underline this.
Labour has already changed its rules to comply with the judgment, meaning women’s jobs cannot go to trans women.
Dr Hollowood said: “The EHRC has been clear that organisations need to get on with implementing the ruling and not wait for their guidance. It is now time at conference to make sure the Lib Dems do just that.
“We cannot continue to be derailed by a vocal and extremist group in the party, who tend to dominate these proceedings at conference.”
As they dominate so many things. Men like to dominate.
I rather like Ed Davey for taking the p*** out of Elon Musk, and I do vote for them because they are the least worst option in our First Past the Post system, but their stance on this really hacks me off.
You do know you’re welcome to say “piss” here, right? Given how foul-mouthed I get away with being?
How would Davey feel if someone else in the party decided to “identify as” its leader?
I don’t know why people do that. I can understand that they don’t want to write “piss” in full anywhere their mothers might see it, but the solution to that is not to write “piss” at all. Writing it as “p***” is completely pointless, as everyone knows what it stands for.
Charlotte Bronte in a preface to Wuthering Heights:-
“The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent people are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does – what feeling it spares – what horror it conceals.”
Good for Charlotte Brontë. Interesting that she would say this so long ago.
I hope we are all profane and violent people here!