UCU: Fighting political attacks on LGBT+ people

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes political attacks on LGBT+ people, e.g:
1. Boris Johnson (6/4/22) attacking Gillick competence.
2. Sajid Javid (April 2022) attacking gender-affirming care and comparing it to child sexual abuse cases in Rotherham.
3. Nadim Zawahi (20/4/22) suggesting teachers should ‘out’ trans children to parents.
4. Nadine Dorries (21/4/22) stating trans women should be excluded from women’s sport.
5. EHRC’s guidance (4/4/22) which undermines Equality Act (2010) protections for trans people using single sex spaces, such as toilets.
Congress believes the comments above:
a) use LGBT+ people as a wedge to stoke division, undermine and further marginalise LGBT+ people;
b) aim not to protect but to pathologise trans people and present LGBT+ people as untrustworthy and undeserving of autonomy.
c) seek to ‘protect’ trans people from themselves.
Congress resolves UCU will counter these political attacks on LGBT+ people using all tools at its disposal including branch organising and media visibility.