Lib Dems reject ‘discriminatory and unworkable’ EHRC guidance on transgender people
Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, holds a Q&A session at the party’s autumn conference in Brighton. Photograph: Phil Lewis/SOPA Images/ShutterstockView image in fullscreenEd Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, holds a Q&A session at the party’s autumn conference in Brighton. It calls for a revised code, plus a dedicated cross-party parliamentary committee “to review how the law should better protect trans people’s rights”.Proposing the motion, the party member Lucas North condemned the EHRC guidance and noted a rise in anti-trans hate crimes.
- ▪Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, holds a Q&A session at the party’s autumn conference in Brighton.
- ▪Photograph: Phil Lewis/SOPA Images/ShutterstockView image in fullscreenEd Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, holds a Q&A session at the party’s autumn conference in Brighton.
- ▪It calls for a revised code, plus a dedicated cross-party parliamentary committee “to review how the law should better protect trans people’s rights”.Proposing the motion, the party member Lucas North condemned the EHRC guidance and noted a
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Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, holds a Q&A session at the party’s autumn conference in Brighton. Photograph: Phil Lewis/SOPA Images/ShutterstockView image in fullscreenEd Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, holds a Q&A session at the party’s autumn conference in Brighton. Photograph: Phil Lewis/SOPA Images/ShutterstockLiberal Democrat conferenceLib Dems reject ‘discriminatory and unworkable’ EHRC guidance on transgender peopleMotion passed at party conference calls for new approach to implementing ruling that legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex onlyPeter Walker Senior political correspondentMon 21 Sep 2026 14.58 EDTLast modified on Mon 21 Sep 2026 15.00 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleThe Liberal Democrats have rejected official guidance by the equalities…
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