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Labour’s policy on the Trans issue

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Whitewavemark2 Tue 25-Jul-23 17:29:14

Anneliese Dodds

We need to recognise that sex and gender are different – as the Equality Act does. We will make sure that nothing in our modernised gender recognition process would override the single-sex exemptions in the Equality Act. Put simply, this means that there will always be places where it is reasonable for biological women only to have access. Labour will defend those spaces, providing legal clarity for the providers of single-sex services.

I am not hugely knowledgable about this area, but it seems a sensible policy.

Grantanow Sun 13-Aug-23 08:39:44

By 'small minority' I meant any group of self-appointed, noisy activists pretending (in the correct sense of the word) to represent a particular cause.

Doodledog Sun 13-Aug-23 08:41:01

Thanks. Yes, I agree grin

DiamondLily Sun 13-Aug-23 08:42:47

varian

Perhaps anyone transitioning should use the disabled loo. Would that solve the problem?

Not if you're disabled, and waiting to use it..

Doodledog Sun 13-Aug-23 09:20:16

Yes, it’s as though everyone should move aside for those who want to use the loos for the opposite sex. Women, babies, the disabled - who am I missing out here? Oh yes - men! They get to keep their urinals and separate facilities whilst men saying they are women force their way into ours.

varian Thu 17-Aug-23 18:01:12

Trans folk are a small minority. I have only ever met two.

I am so glad that none any of my family or close friends are trans.

It is not an easy place to be. But trans folk are human beings like you and me and so deserve basic respect and human rights - which should surely include some measure of accommodation within our society.



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Galaxy Thu 17-Aug-23 18:05:11

Women are 51 % of the population.
It's often not easy to be a woman particularly if you have been raped and sexually assaulted.
Women are human beings and surely deserve some measure of accommodation within society.

Doodledog Thu 17-Aug-23 18:30:11

Transpeople are accommodated in society. They have the same rights as everyone else, plus protection under hate crime legislation and the EA.

Those who live quietly under the radar are likely to be accepted by all but those who dislike any difference. It is those who force their way into women’s safe spaces, who threaten and intimidate feminists and insist on changes to the way women are defined who are the issue. The ones who refused to even debate with us, who call us TERFs and cancel opposing voices. There is no reason I can see why such undemocratic and violent people should be accommodated.