Trade Unions Are Failing Women
Trade unions claim to be member-led, but when it comes to women's rights they are dancing to the tune of largely male trans activists instead of standing up for women members.
Up till now the unions have supported self-ID - a nonsense policy which, if passed into law, would have allowed men to declare they have magically 'become women' entitling these men to invade women's single sex spaces.
The Scottish Government tried to do just that of course, but they were stopped in their tracks by UK ministers and a resounding judgment from the UK Supreme Court which affirmed biological sex as the foundation stone of equality law.
Trade unions gather in Brighton at the weekend for the 157th annual congress of the TUC which I last attended in 1983 to collect the TUC Youth Award - a time when no one had heard of queer theory, children being born in the wrong body, self-ID and men claiming they are women.
So here's the kind of motion TUC delegates ought to be discussing in Brighton this weekend - one that reflects the views of grassroots union members instead of the reality-denying, anti-women stance promoted by trans activists.
TUC Emergency Motion
"Conference welcomes the recent decision from the UK Supreme Court which clarified that 'biological sex' is the foundation stone of equality law across the UK including the Equality Act 2010.
"Conference notes that the effect of restoring sanity and common sense to equality law means that:
a) a woman is an adult human female
b) a trans woman is a biological male - a man
"Conference recognises there is still much work to be done to protect women's rights even after this landmark judgment, in particular their rights to:
- single sex spaces
- fair competition in sport
- dignity, privacy and safety at work
- single sex provision for public/private services including rape crisis centres, shelters, hostels etc
