Momentum is circulating a template motion for Labour’s September conference against the two-child benefit cap.
Leeds Young Labour has put out a statement against the two-child benefit cap https://forms.gle/vziN9KHNKmDbwxCN8
LAAA and Arise are circulating a statement of protest against the suspension from the whip of seven Labour MPs for voting for immediate lifting of the two-child benefit cap.
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/keir-starmer-reverse-the-7-mps-suspension
The Labour Campaign for Council Housing has a template motion
Labour for Trans Rights has sent out a template motion and an statement seeking signatures against Wes Streeting’s announcement that he will continue a Tory ban on puberty blockers.
The motion is not in suitable format to comply with the reintroduced “Contemporary Motions” rule for Labour conference: see below for a well-formated motion put in Stockton North CLP.
The usually-conformist LGBT+ Labour group has written to Wes Streeting to protest, and a new group, Pride in Labour, has declared itself as wanting a more combative protest.
https://www.prideinlabour.org.uk/
https://labourlist.org/2024/07/labour-trans-row-lgbt-splinter-group/
And we ourselves, Labour Left Internationalists, have launched a statement seeking signatures calling for the Labour government to give practical effect to its nominal policy for a ceasefire and reconstruction in Gaza.
Motion on trans rights submitted by Stockton North CLP
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.
(Other versions of this text have included a direct call to lift the ban on puberty blockers)