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TRADE UNION representatives at the TUC LGBT+ conference today heard that the government should introduce a “simplified, free, statutory” gender recognition process.
Shadow women’s and equalities minister Charlotte Nichols told delegates that Labour would “resist any attempts to roll back hard-won rights” and were “committed to updating 2004’s Gender Recognition Act in order to introduce self-declaration for trans people.”
A statement debated by delegates said that in the two years taken by the government to respond to its consultation on the Act, trans people had been “forced to continue with a lengthy, humiliating, and expensive process to change their gender.”
A packed fringe meeting at the National Education Union conference heard from Iranian teachers, campaigners and journalists
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR