We need to end the hostile environment, not create a moral panic against LGBT asylum seekers
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Thanks to @chrisn.xyz and @eddavey.libdems.org.uk for this. It's been a hard year, and we have work to do. But we're in the fight, and we're proud that the @libdems.org.uk are in it with us. Trans rights are human rights. 🧡🏳️⚧️
The Minister must ensure that the new guidance is workable and inclusive. The Liberal Democrats will accept nothing less. It must lay out how it will protect the dignity, safety and rights of all, and ensure that trans people are not prevented from participating in public life because there are no facilities that they can safely use. It is also essential that the guidance is subject to full parliamentary scrutiny. It must have a full debate and free vote. Marie Goldman Women & Equalities Spokesperson
To deal with the unacceptable legal limbo that many trans people are in, I encourage the Minister to appoint a Joint Committee of MPs and peers, on a cross-party basis, to conduct post-legislative scrutiny of both the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the Equality Act 2010. The Committee should take evidence from affected communities, including trans people, and propose any amendments or new legislation that it sees as necessary to ensure that existing rights are protected. Marie Goldman Women & Equalities Spokesperson
It is sadly an all-too-common theme throughout history that vulnerable minorities—in this case a minority that makes up less than 1% of the UK’s population—are scapegoated for society’s ills. Protecting the rights of women and ensuring dignity and inclusion for trans people are not competing objectives. Both are essential to a fair society. It is basic British decency to afford that. The Liberal Democrats believe as such and that is what we will continue to call for. Marie Goldman Women & Equalities Spokesperson
Thank you to @mariecgoldman.bsky.social for her speech yesterday in the Commons. The dignity and rights of trans people must be ensured in this guidance, and she is right when she says that trans rights and women's rights are not and will never be competing objectives.
Reposting this today. Be safe, and know that you're loved, particularly if days like today are a challenge.
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Happy Easter from us to everyone celebrating, wherever you are. 🧡
Thanks to Tanya for writing this, and to Lib Dem Voice for publishing it. 🧡 🏳️⚧️
TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY It's time to UPDATE THE EQUALITY ACT Make it fair for Trans+ people The background is a picture of our signature 15+ metre Trans Pride Flag as part of a Pride parade through a town centre, with the LGBT+ Liberal Democrats' rainbow bird-of-liberty logo above.
It's Trans Day of Visibility, and it's time to update the Equality Act! 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
We believe it should do what its drafters intended from the start. Sign our petition here 👇
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#transrights #tdov #ea2010 #equalityact #LibDems
Caron will be absolutely fantastic on this hustings panel. Best of luck to her from us. 🧡
In 2004 a 10-year-old trans girl in my school socially transitioned. She went from tortured, cowering classroom ghost to confident, happy high achiever almost overnight.
The only things she changed…? The things Phillipson wants to ban:
Her name & pronouns.
Phillipson REALLY doesn’t get it.
Major celebrations like Eid and Christmas can be tough for LGBT+ folks, being with family they might not be out to or might not want to be out to.
There's some really vital support available. If you or someone you know is struggling this weekend, the @nazandmatt.bsky.social has help signposted. 👇
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Eid Mubarak to everyone celebrating Eid-al-Fitr and the end of the month of Ramadan. We hope everyone celebrating has a happy and blessed Eid. 🧡
If you're going to be at the @libdems.org.uk #LDConf this weekend, we'll be at Exhibition stall 1, right by the main entrance. Come and say hi!
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Huge thanks to @eddavey.libdems.org.uk for joining @jolyon.goodlawproject.org and others on the Trans Mission stage to reaffirm the @libdems.org.uk party's long-standing and fundamental support for Trans+ rights. 🧡
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We submitted a couple of amendments to motions at @conference.libdems.org.uk in York this weekend. One was picked - one wasn't. Unfortunately, it was the one about how we actually implement all the good policy Conference passes. We in the @libdems.org.uk need to have a chat about how we do better.
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LGBT+ Lib Dems back calls from Lib Dem MPs to propose amendments to the Equality Act that protect trans rights, and ensure that trans people have a voice in that process. Lib Dem MP Marie Goldman is right when she says trans rights and women's rights are not in competition. This has to be agreed cross-party, so please contact your MP and back the Lib Dems in asking for amendments to protect trans rights now.
Dear Minister for Women and Equalities, Re: Ongoing practical implications of last year's Supreme Court ruling Following the recent High Court decision concerning the challenge brought by the Good Law Project to EHRC interim guidance, I am writing to express my disappointment at the continued uncertainty surrounding the practical implications of last year’s Supreme Court ruling. While the Court has ruled on the question of standing in this case, it is clear that the wider issues remain far from settled. Trans, non-binary and intersex people continue to face profound anxiety about what these developments mean for their daily lives. Meanwhile, employers, service providers and public bodies tell us they still lack clear, workable direction about their responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010. This persistent uncertainty benefits no one. It risks leaving trans or gender non-conforming people worried about being excluded from facilities they have used for years, and organisations exposed to confusion, legal risk and unnecessary cost. You have repeatedly stated that trans people remain protected from discrimination. Without clear guidance, however, that statement offers little reassurance to those directly affected.
I urge you to bring forward new, workable, and inclusive guidance as a matter of urgency, and to lay any new EHRC code of practice before Parliament so it can be properly scrutinised and debated. There must be a rigorous democratic process, including a free vote, to assess whether the proposals genuinely ensure dignity, safety and inclusion for trans people while upholding the rights of women. I also urge you to appoint a joint committee of cross-party MPs and peers to conduct post-legislative scrutiny of both the Gender Recognition Act and the Equality Act 2010, takinh evidence from communities who have been impacted including trans people, which will propose any amendments or new legislation it sees as necessary to ensure existing rights are protected. The Liberal Democrats are clear that everyone deserves to feel safe, respected and free to be who they are. Protecting the rights of women and ensuring dignity and inclusion for trans people are not competing objectives; both are essential to a fair society. Your Department must now provide leadership and certainty to achieve that balance. I would welcome an update on your timetable for publishing revised guidance and laying it before Parliament, and would be grateful for the opportunity to meet to discuss these matters further. Yours sincerely, Marie Goldman MP, Liberal Democrats Spokesperson for Women and Equalities.
Trans rights and women's rights are not and never have been in competition. Thank you to Marie Goldman for this excellent letter and your work on this.
Excellent letter, @mariecgoldman.bsky.social - thank you and @libdems.org.uk for your work on this. 🧡
Today on International Women's Day we celebrate all women and the effort that still goes into fighting for the rights of all women, no matter their orientation or identity.
#InternationalWomensDay | #InternationalWomensDay2026
Transmisogyny directly hurts not only the lives of trans women, but it comes to hurt cis women as well, now cisgender athletes will have to pay for testing to "prove they're cis" due to transmisogynist policy. www.thetimes.com/sport/athlet...
Busy at the @pluslibdems.bsky.social and @libdemwomen.bsky.social stall at @scotlibdems.org.uk conference!
Susan Murray MP with Lib Dem Women and Plus leaflets
Lovely to have @mpsusanmurray.bsky.social visit the @libdemwomen.bsky.social, @pluslibdems.bsky.social stall yesterday
Thank you Christine 🏳️⚧️
In the meantime, over a hundred thousand people are living with HIV in the UK still, and thousands are thought to be infected but unaware.
We have work to do to achieve the world we know is possible - thank you to everyone helping us get there. (2/2)
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Today is World AIDS Day. We have come a long way since the horrors of the 1980s, which triggered a wave of homophobia which has its echoes today.
HIV is now routinely treatable and for the first time there is the prospect of a world without AIDS too. (1/2)
Thank you to @mariecgoldman.bsky.social, @cajardinemp.bsky.social, @lizbarkerlords.bsky.social and other @libdems.org.uk MPs and Peers who have been working with the APPG on this. It's vital to keep up work on this, particularly now an end to AIDS is possible.
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Thank you for this, @mariecgoldman.bsky.social, and to the dozens of @libdems.org.uk MPs who have already signed her letter. We've been hearing distressing accounts of this sort of exclusion happening already.
The EHRC guidance needs to be rejected and rewritten if it's not good enough.
Thank you, @joshbabarinde.bsky.social 🧡
If you're a member of the LGBT+ Lib Dems, you should have received your ballot email (from OpaVote) for our contested Executive elections, for 1x Policy Officer and 10x Ordinary Executive Members. Do check your Updates/Promotions/Spam folders - you have until 6pm on Friday 05/12 to cast your votes!
Thank you, @joshbabarinde.bsky.social for pressing the government on today's appalling leaked EHRC proposals. It is both sickening and predictable that they should leak on Transgender Day of Remembrance. Thank you for committing the @libdems.org.uk to standing up for our rights.
