Lib Dems shout that women don’t matter.
Civil war has broken out among the Liberal Democrats after Sir Ed Davey pledged to oppose official guidance protecting female-only spaces.
Earlier this month, Bridget Phillipson finally published the long-awaited advice from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). It tells businesses and public bodies to bar trans women – biological men – from women’s toilets and changing facilities.
The Liberal Democrat leader has written to Ms Phillipson to demand she withdraw the guidance, saying it was not “fit for purpose”. He said the guidance was not clear enough, did not protect trans people from discrimination and harassment, and was not “compatible with long-standing British values”.
So, protecting women from discrimination and harassment is not necessary, but protecting men who pretend to be women is necessary. Why is that exactly?
Also what are the “long-standing British values” that require pampering and soothing of men who say they are women while not requiring any such anxious concern for women?
Sir Ed’s statement drew stinging criticism from Dr Zoe Hollowood, chairman of the women’s rights campaign group within the Lib Dems.
She accused him of ignoring the views of women and prioritising the views of trans people.
“Polling consistently shows that Lib Dem voters and members believe single-sex spaces should be protected based on biological sex,” she said. “Ignoring this reality is a betrayal to women everywhere, including in our own party.”
But men like Ed Davies seem to be quite happy to betray women everywhere.
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