"Returning males into vacancies expressly reserved for females would be unlawful,"
"self-identify as men or non-binary people, and self-identify as women or non-binary people respectively"
"The law hasn't changed but the Supreme Court has ruled that the 'TERFs' (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) were right all along: sex in the Equality Act means biological sex."
"As we see the political landscape shift further and further right, it is more important than ever that we hold on to our values and not let our conference, our voice as members, be used to legitimise bigotry in the name of a small and extremi"
Liberal Democrat members voted against an amendment that would have replaced gender-based quotas with quotas based on biological sex, preventing trans women from standing for roles reserved for women. The motion was proposed by Liberal Voice for Women at the party conference in Bournemouth and referenced a recent UK Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act. The party constitution currently requires that at least 40% of federal bodies and committees self-identify across genders. LGBT+ Liberal Democrats and other members criticised the amendment as a sham and warned against using the conference to legitimise transphobic views.
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