For women of all backgrounds
Labour issued this in 2018, but it’s grabbed people’s attention today.
What does Labour’s Statement on All Women Shortlists, women’s officers, and minimum quotes for women say?
Labour has a proud record of championing equality for women of all backgrounds, including BAME women, LGBT+ women, disabled women and working class women. The use of All Women Shortlists, women’s officers and minimum quotas for women is a key aspect of this.
The Labour Party’s All Women Shortlists are open to all women, including self-identifying trans women. Similarly, women’s officers and minimum quotas for women in the Labour Party are open to all women, including self-identifying trans women.
So actual women can lose places to men who claim to be women. If Labour decides to really be “proactive” about it their shortlists and quotas could be all men who claim to be women instead of actual women.
Also, next paragraph –
The Labour Party is committed to upholding the principle of affirmative action for women. Anyone attempting to breach Labour Party rules and subvert the intention of All Women Shortlists, women’s officers or minimum quotas for women will be dealt with via our established safeguards, selection procedures and disciplinary measures.
I don’t understand what they mean by that. Are they talking about women attempting to breach Labour Party rules and subvert the intention of All Women Shortlists, women’s officers or minimum quotas for women? Or are they talking about men doing so by pretending to be trans? The inability to know which it is just underlines how incoherent the ideology is.
Incoherent and extremely coercive; brilliant combination.
Incoherent and extremely coercive bullshit.
They probably mean to refer to David Lewis.
“ A male Labour activist has been suspended following an attempt to expose flaws in the party’s policy of allowing self-identifying trans women to stand on all-women shortlists.
David Lewis, who said he planned to stand for a women’s officer position in Basingstoke, claimed he identified as woman “on Wednesdays, between 6.50am when my alarm goes off and around midnight when I go to bed”.
It follows a decision by the party’s National Executive Committee to renew Labour’s commitment to transgender rights in its rule book and continue to allow self-identifying trans women to be eligible to stand on all-women shortlists.
The 45-year-old told the Spectator his application had been accepted by his local party in Basingstoke under the party’s guidelines on self-identification.“
And why shouldn’t it be, in accordance with their own definitions?
Is there an “all Mythical Creatures List? Because maybe I can move to Basingstoke and run on the “Gryffons” list? I like Gryffons. They are purty! /sarc LOL
Brian, I assume that that’s all subsumed into the Womens’, Transwomens’, Nonbinary, and Otherwise Identifying List, no? There are men, and then there’s Everyone Else. Surely you can run on that list, and take a position away from a woman. You even get to keep your male pronouns, because you can be a he-gryffon!
Well if David Lewis is what they meant by it, the question becomes how do they know? How do they know David Lewis is attempting to breach Labour Party rules and subvert the intention of All Women Shortlists, women’s officers or minimum quotas for women when other men doing the same thing is exactly what they are cheering on? How do they know the difference?
Ah, the poor low IQ types running Labour now did not think the older women would walk away? Funny how so many people think that old women are sitting around crying for attention from idiots and misogynists. Keep pushing pro-male and ONLY pro-male policies and women will walk away, hobble away, crawl away, drive away, ski away, dog sled away, mobility scooter away, skateboard away……you get the picture.
“ Labour has a proud record of championing equality for women of all backgrounds, including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic women, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Men who identify as women and + (?) women, disabled women and working class women. The use of All Women Shortlists, women’s officers and minimum quotas for women is a key aspect of this.
The Labour Party’s All Women Shortlists are open to all women, including men. Similarly, women’s officers and minimum quotas for women in the Labour Party are open to all women, including men.”
There, made it clear what they really mean.
Men are just another subset of women.
If they actually wanted true diversity, they’d keep the women’s lists and quotas for women, then add a second set of lists and quotas for trans-identified individuals; these would be applied to other ‘cis’-male dominated appointments.