Stockton North CLP passes trans rights motion!

Stockton North CLP has passed a motion on trans rights and puberty blockers

Stockton North CLP has passed this motion on trans rights and puberty blockers. You can read the text below. The important thing now is to make sure that it passes priority ballot on the first day of conference, so it can be heard on the conference floor. If you are a delegate, or you know your delegate, please make sure that they vote for trans rights motions during the priority ballot.

You can read the text of the motion below. Please consider passing this model motion, or writing a similar motion yourself. The deadline for motions is rapidly approaching on September 12th.

Conference notes:

• That previous Labour governments introduced policies which protected the rights of trans people, including the 2004 Gender Recognition Act and the 2010 Equality Act. On 12 July Wes Streeting signalled a permanent puberty blocker ban.

• Hate crimes against trans people have risen by 186% in the last 5 years, according to ONS statistics.

• Average waiting times to access healthcare at the majority of NHS gender identity clinics at least doubled between 2018 and 2023, with many waiting more than five years for their first appointment.

• The UK’s system of gender recognition is difficult and degrading to navigate, with a European Commission study of 2020 finding that the UK is the second most difficult country in Europe for trans people to legally transition.

Conference resolves:

• To condemn the growth of divisive and demonising rhetoric about trans people in society, and express our solidarity and support for the trans community.

• To affirm that trans women are women, and trans men are men.

• To call on our new Labour cabinet to commit to reducing waiting lists to access gender identity clinics to the NHS 18 week target.

• To call on our Labour cabinet to ban all forms of conversion therapy including a ban on this practice being carried out against transgender youth.

• To adopt a definition of transphobia, based on the definition advocated for by TransActual and Labour for Trans Rights which is already used in transphobia training for CLPs.