The RO in our internal elections has sent this update round. It is nowhere near good enough: trans and non-binary candidates should never be third-spaced in this way. The gender quotas in Article 2.5 of the party Constitution should be implemented as-written - or suspended if they can't be. 1/2

Our Membership Development Officer, Onyx Rist, writes in @libdemvoice.org today 🧡👇

Excellent and sobering piece in @libdemvoice.org today by Cllr. Chris Northwood. All @libdems.org.uk members should read it. 👇

Huge congratulations to our allies in the Netherlands @d66.nl - a highlight of the autumn so far! 💚

Someone asked us if the events earlier this week around quotas affected our endorsements in the @libdems.org.uk internal elections. This was our answer.

Are you a 🔶 @libdems.org.uk member? If so, you get a vote in the party's internal elections, but it's a long ballot. Our recommendations on how to vote are here - some excellent candidates standing. 👇

If you're a candidate in the @libdems.org.uk internal elections, or ever have been, please revoke the party's right to use or hold your sex assigned at birth. We have a handy form: 👇 lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...

Please sign our open letter to the @libdems.org.uk party asling for the awful decision over diversity quotas to be scrapped. 👇 lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...

LGBT+ Liberal Democrats condemn our party's decision to base internal gender quotas on sex assigmed at birth. This trans-exclusionary decision is an attack on one of the most vulnerable groups in our society. 1/4

Thank you for this, Marie. 🧡

📢 If you're a member of LGBT+ Lib Dems, please check your emails for an email from us. If you think you should have received one but haven't, please get in touch via the link below, and our lovely MDO can sort you out. 😊 If you didn't receive an email but would like to, you can join up too! 👇

Thank you to @tomgordonld.bsky.social, Lib Dem MP, for speaking up for Trans+ people.

Thank you, Tom - you're quite right. Thank you for all your work as the Lib Dem MP on the Joint Committee on Human Rights. 🧡

The Human Rights Commissionner weighs in, appropriately in National Hate Crime Awareness Week. His letters are worth reading.

Quite a bloody cheek, this, given the UK has the most hostile regime towards healthcare for young trans people and their families in the world (www.gov.uk/government/s...).

We thought the Brighton Centre looked much better when the @libdems.org.uk had our conference there a year ago.

Ming Campbell was one of the most influential Lib Dems of the last few decades - his opposition to the Iraq War inspired a whole generation of Lib Dems to join, and his allyship on LGBT+ matters was always both strong, and appreciated. He was also remarkably kind. We will miss him.

YES! Chris is a fantastic councillor and advocate for her community. It's a thoroughly deserved award, and good to see HQ having no truck with any nonsense about it. Well done, Chris!

For those who pay attention to UK politics, the Liberal Democrats and #LDConf A bunch of TERFs tried first thing this morning to impose a transphobic policy on our internal elections (they wanted to exclude trans women from the gender balance criteria) They failed, spectacularly.

Glad to see that @libdems.org.uk Conference had no more patience for hate on the agenda than it did last time. We, and Conference, saw that amendment for what it was. Thank you to everyone who voted.

The arrest of four people after this incident is an outrageous affront to the freedom of expression enjoyed by UK citizens. It is a human right we all enjoy and is protected in law. 1/2

Yesterday, we received an email from a Daily Mail journalist asking us to comment on the attempt by a trans-exclusionary group to change our party's rules. For the avoidance of doubt, or misrepresentation of our position, we reproduce our response in full here... 1/4

Thank you @wendychambld.bsky.social and the many other @libdems.org.uk MPs who are signing this letter. Room for more signatures! 👀

Thank you, @charlotte-cane-mp.bsky.social and @lisasmartmp.bsky.social. 💛

The ECHR is a British creation that protects all. It's shocking that other parties such as the Tories and Reform talk about leaving it, rewriting it or watering it down, Liberal Democrats stand firm

A huge well done to Rebecca for her work on this, and thank you for JPAC to listening to her concerns. While the NHS is complaining of blood donation shortages, it should not be inventing barriers for LGBT+ folks who are willing to donate.

"On a national level, I think the only party that is walking the walk when it comes to LGBTQIA+ rights are the Liberal Democrats." - an Independent councillor. There's always more to do. Thanks to everyone helping us and the @libdems.org.uk do it. 💛 www.attitude.co.uk/main-stories...

If you have wondered why trans people (and many others) were so upset by the supreme court ruling earlier this year, this article from Sarah Brown explains it well: www.libdemvoice.org/why-are-uk-t...

Go, @readinglibdems.bsky.social! Great to join you for the day!

Today we celebrate 12 years since the @libdems.org.uk passed the Same Sex Marriage Act, with some lovely photos of our married and engaged Plus members. Including our Chair, Charley, who’s getting married in October, and our Honorary Vice President, Adrian, who celebrates their 10th anniversary.

Five years ago, the murders of David, James and Joe shocked Reading, and the world. They were kind, popular members of our community taken from it far too soon. Today, Reading remembers them. Each of them made Reading that much better, and they are deeply missed. Love from us to all who knew them.

Thank you to the 379 MPs, including 63 @libdems.org.uk MPs, who voted to uphold bodily autonomy today, and the rights of some of the most vulnerable women in society.

Thank you to Rebecca for writing this. There's a (deliberate) disconnect between how trans+ folks and their close allies, and how cis people more widely, are experiencing this. We in the LGBT+ Lib Dems are working on how we can close that gap and bring the reality home to the wider community.

This is an important article. Congratulations to Victoria on being voted #1 on the Independent Pride List too.

On the 7th of June, 1954, Alan Turing died. He was discovered the following day. His birthday would have been the 23rd of June. He had opted for chemical castration following his conviction for homsexuality and indecency. Now, of course, we celebrate June as Pride Month. 1/3

I certainly wasnt expecting a response from the Women and Equalities Select Committee on a Saturday. I think they may suffering from a high volume of communications.

It's Pride month - and we need to protest by @caronmlindsay.bsky.social www.libdemvoice.org/its-pride-mo...

It's Pride Month 2025 - wherever you are, we hope you have a safe one. 🧡🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ People have rightly been asking what we mean when we say we @libdems.org.uk need to 'do better' or 'step up' as a party. There's no such thing as 'done' of course - but this is what we're pushing for currently. 1/2

"It’s clear the fight for LGBTQ+ equality must go on - and I’m determined that Liberal Democrats remain at the forefront of that fight." @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk - read more: www.libdems.org.uk/news/article...

Liberal Democrats will keep fighting until we can finally build a society where everyone is free to be who they are.

Things you won't read about in The Times. Or hear broadcast from Her Majesty's yacht. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

IF OUR BODIES AREN'T OUR OWN, WHOSE THE HELL ARE THEY? Kids Pregnant people Trans people Disabled people People the government doesn't like Everyone deserves bodily autonomy. Gillick competency, the principle of consent, and laws against torture protect us all. Resist EVERY effort to change that.

It's worth noting that the last Labour government issued an apology for imposing precisely this treatment on Alan Turing.

It's 2025, not 1952. That a current UK government - and a Labour government at that - is seriously proposing this should send a chill down the spine of everyone who values civil rights and understands history. This should have no place in a civilised society.

'A council under new control by Reform UK has taken down an LGBTQ+ Pride flag at its headquarters. Liberal Democrat councillor Ellie Hopgood condemned the decision and said it was a "disrespectful, mean-spirited act" ahead of Saturday's Pride in Armed Forces event in Durham.'

Delighted that over half of @libdems.org.uk MPs have signed @cajardinemp.bsky.social's Early Day Motion on making sure parties step up on #transrights, including the Chief Whip, Deputy Leader and Home Affairs spokes. Looking out for more, of course. 👀 And thanks to @elliechowns.bsky.social too. 🙂💛💚

If you have been stopped, challenged or harassed when using a single-sex space (such as toilets or changing rooms) since the UK's Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act. We need to hear from you. Let us know at: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo25 #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ

Leading with young people. Ahead of the Conservatives. Labour tracking downward. It's good to see #LibDems on the up - and it's surely no coincidence that parties that haven't been pushing toxic culture wars nonsense are doing badly with young people. Which is why we need to be even clearer. /1

'We carve out a niche for ourselves Left of Centre...in the sense that we stand for personal freedom against authority...in the sense that we believe there's too much poverty...too much cruelty, in the sense that we want and mean to have a wide dispersal of property & power' (Jo Grimond, 1958) 🔶️

A takeaway from this debate - pretty much all the supportive MPs quoted their constituents as to why they support trans rights. We are cutting through Keep writing to your MPs. If you wrote last month, write again. Write to your MP until you can’t type anymore. Make our voices impossible to ignore