TUC Congress passed a welcome motion opposing the EHRC Code of Practice, which threatens to ban trans-inclusive women’s conferences or committees or groups.

Even in Trump’s USA, unions continue to be loud and proud about organising their women’s conferences as trans-inclusive! Even Trump has not dared to try to stop them!

It will be a terrible thing if our labour movement becomes more trans-exclusionary than Trump’s USA.

Labour for Trans Rights have circulated a draft motion for general Labour conference. Support it in the priorities ballot if it is not ruled out of order.

Some delegates to women’s conference plan to challenge the exclusion of trans women. Support their right to have their say.

Labour Women United have a pro-trans-rights slate for National Women’s Committee. Support them!

Islington South CLP has been told by London region that a motion it passed in March 2026 calling for a trans-inclusive women’s conference is “out of order” because it supposedly clashes with the law.

Yet the City of London Corporation says that Hampstead Women’s Ponds will remain trans-inclusive.

Pass motions in CLPs calling for the government to change the law to ensure that trans people can participate in society in their own gender.

Older Labour members should remember the April Ashley case. In 1961-2 a Tory press campaign drove Ashley out of her “women’s” jobs (modelling women’s clothing, actress), and in 1970 her rich husband was able to their marriage annulled to save the expense of divorcing her. Even then, even Tories did not demand that Ashley be forced to wear “male” clothes or re-adopt a “male” name.

Over decades attitudes liberalised. In 2013-5 the Museum of Liverpool had an exhibition, “Portrait of a Lady”, celebrating Ashley’s stand for trans rights.

Now we have a backlash. Remember the more liberal views you probably had when young, and make Labour resist that backlash!