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Liberal Democrats Need to Stop Their Obsession With ‘Trans Rights’
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I’m a middle-aged man and I have a confession. I’d really like to be younger. And I feel young too. I’m very active. I exercise regularly – at levels that very few older people do. I’m in the small minority of middle-aged men in the UK who isn’t overweight. Go me! Now suppose I decided on those grounds that I will henceforth self-identify as a teenager, and on that basis I demanded access to youth clubs, a place on LibDem quotas reserved for young people, and so on? And suppose I also demanded that everyone should be obliged to treat…
Sex, Equality and the Law: Cutting Through the Noise – Explaining the Supreme Court Ruling and What’s Next
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The fringe meeting offered by the LD group Liberal Voice for Women at York Novotel on Friday evening 13 March at 8:00 pm, looks set to enliven the whole weekend. The panel members are stellar names in feminist politics: Susan Smith is one of the successful appellants in the ‘For Women Scotland’ case against the bumbling SNP ministers. They had tried unlawfully to include transwomen (holders of a separate protected characteristic) in a positive action measure intended to appoint more female members to public boards in Scotland. Susan will recount her experiences of combatting injustice before, during and since that…
