Lib Dems reject ‘discriminatory and unworkable’ EHRC guidance on transgender people
Motion passed at party conference calls for new approach to implementing ruling that legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex only The Liberal Democrats have rejected official guidance by the equalities watchdog on how organisations should implement the supreme court ruling on transgender people, calling it “discriminatory and unworkable”.
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.
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