Motion
- Motion title
- Progress LGBT+ liberation now
- Session
- 2020-2021
- Meeting link
- Interim Congress
- Meeting date
- 13 February 2021
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- 6
- Motion text
Wider society presumes people identify their gender with the sex assigned at their birth and are straight.
LGBT+ people remain largely unreflected and sometimes vilified in mainstream media.
Arguments around academic freedom are used to silence, dispute and condemn LGBT+ identities.
Covid19 related restrictions have shrunk our social world negatively impacting on LGBT+ lives e.g. being confined in unsupportive homes, outness, isolation from support networks, lengthened medical waiting lists. Shelving gender recognition reform has had further negative impact.
Legal recognition that Equality Act 2010 covers non-binary people from the moment of self-declaration is welcome.
Congress resolves to
1. Explore, establish and support innovations in UCU LGBT+ work progressing gender identity including GRA reform
2. Dismantle the exclusivity of cis and hetero normativities in all UCU work
3. Develop branch action plans challenging the use of academic freedom arguments against LGBT+ people
4. Promote and campaign for LGBT+ liberation, visibility, mental health, well-being and education
- Proposing body
- LGBT+ members' standing committee (LGBT+MSC)
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Equality committee
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2021/C/02-13/081/6