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Lib Dems reject ‘discriminatory and unworkable’ EHRC guidance on transgender people (www.theguardian.com)
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The motion, passed overwhelmingly at the party’s annual conference in Brighton, makes the Lib Dems the first of the big three parties in parliament to call for a new approach to implementing last year’s ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex only. The Greens have previously done so.

That's good. Labour is notably late here.

The Supreme Court ruling is wrong anyway. That said, it just means the Equality Act needs an amendment to make it less unclear that women includes trans women, but apparently no one has done that yet.

It's quite telling when someone, including supposed activist organization Stonewall, insists you should follow the law. Activism is all about not bending to unjust laws and rulings. Being publically gay was illegal until fairly recently in Britain. Did they just say "oh well, guess we can't be gay"? No. Of course not.

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[–] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It beggars belief that Labour didn't just out right come out and say, "that's the law but it is wrong and we will move heaven and earth to change it". Labour.

Fuck me.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 week ago

    Well, no party apart from the Greens have outright come out in support of trans people before now, sadly, and I'm not sure that any of them have outright challenged the Supreme Court ruling.

    Individual Labour, Lib Dems and Green MPs have come out against the EHRC guidance, but the Labour government under Starmer blocked a debate that would have allowed the guidance to have been formally rejected.

    The Lib Dems legitimately are, in aggregate, pretty good on this issue. The Greens are too. That said, I haven't seen any new bills or ammendments yet to actually resolve this issue. I hope they are in the works.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    It doesn't address their important issues like "doing what Israel says".

    Is there any way to use former Eurovision winner Dana International, who is both Israeli and trans?

    "Not fixing this miswritten legislation offends Israeli former Eurovision winner Dana International which means not fixing it is antisemitic and therefore must be top priority for the current 'Labour' party"

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    • [–] 9 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    That can’t be right - just yesterday people on Lemmy were saying the Lib Dems don’t have any principles and don’t stand for anything!

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 week ago

    On my other post, no less!

    Yeah, I think they have been fairly wishy washy on things so far. They do feel like an "MPs do their own thing" party so far, but maybe they're trying to change?

    Maybe they've been like this for a while but they've not gotten much air time so it's hard to tell.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    "they don't have any principles" very often means "they don't have principles I agree with". People are kinda bad at understanding principles they don't agree with, which makes it difficult to see when people are working according to them.

    This means that the lib Dems, whose main principle is liberalism which people on Lemmy generally don't agree with, get it in the teeth.

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    • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Maybe Labour can finally do something about this obvious injustice.

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