If sex doesn’t matter for the role, surely the role should be open to anyone of any gender to apply for. If the members want to vote someone in, then isn’t that all that matters?
ConnectPreference166 on
Considering labour is losing LGBT+ people in droves to Greens and Lib Dems I should think they’d be happy anyone was running, not threatening legal action
Rulweylan on
Simple solution: remove any gender requirements for any role.
That way there can be no question of discrimination or failure to apply the rules.
Darq_At on
>It came after a new group, called the Trans Rights Alliance, backed a large slate of candidates in the elections, including chair and women’s officer.
Huh, that’s convenient… In response to trans people organising to try and actually have a voice in the politics that affects them, it’s now a legal risk to let them run for the positions that would allow them to have an impact.
Mkwdr on
Does no one’s serious see the absurdity of having ‘women’ only lists in order to increase or ensure the representation of women … that are filled with people born male. You can say we shouldn’t have them *at all*. But the idea that filling these positions with trans women fulfils the aim of increasing the representation of women (born female) is somewhat ridiculous. Would we really claim with a straight face that ‘women’ were fully and equally represented if the whole parliament were biologically male?
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If sex doesn’t matter for the role, surely the role should be open to anyone of any gender to apply for. If the members want to vote someone in, then isn’t that all that matters?
Considering labour is losing LGBT+ people in droves to Greens and Lib Dems I should think they’d be happy anyone was running, not threatening legal action
Simple solution: remove any gender requirements for any role.
That way there can be no question of discrimination or failure to apply the rules.
>It came after a new group, called the Trans Rights Alliance, backed a large slate of candidates in the elections, including chair and women’s officer.
Huh, that’s convenient… In response to trans people organising to try and actually have a voice in the politics that affects them, it’s now a legal risk to let them run for the positions that would allow them to have an impact.
Does no one’s serious see the absurdity of having ‘women’ only lists in order to increase or ensure the representation of women … that are filled with people born male. You can say we shouldn’t have them *at all*. But the idea that filling these positions with trans women fulfils the aim of increasing the representation of women (born female) is somewhat ridiculous. Would we really claim with a straight face that ‘women’ were fully and equally represented if the whole parliament were biologically male?