Mick Hartley

Meanwhile – are we surprised? – Unison is going all out with the trans agenda. From the Telegraph – Trade union accused of betraying women by pushing trans-rights agenda:

A trade union has been accused of betraying women by debating a pro-trans motion while an NHS nurse fights her employer to protect single-sex spaces.

The motion is expected to be debated as Sandie Peggie, a nurse, continues with her employment tribunal against both NHS Fife and Dr Beth Upton, a male-born doctor who identifies as female who was permitted access to women’s changing facilities.

Ms Peggie claims she faced discrimination and harassment as a result of being forced to use female facilities in Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, with a colleague she considers male, which the health board and Dr Upton deny.

However, the Unison motion, put forward by the union’s Camden branch, asserts that “trans women are women and trans men are men”.

It goes on to denounce the idea that allowing trans women to access female spaces will mean women lose rights and claims women have “a vested interest in standing alongside our trans comrades”.

Unison’s national women’s conference, to begin in Edinburgh on Thursday, is expected to pass a call to produce a “myth-busting factsheet” which would “counter the idea” that trans and women’s rights are ever in conflict….

One delegate attending the conference, a social worker, said it was “shameful and naive” to deny that self-ID policies could put women at risk.

“It saddens me that Unison, which has 75 per cent female membership, has as its first motion at its women’s conference one that seeks to undermine Equality Act protections for women,” the worker, who did not want to be named, said.

“Letting men who choose to identify as women have unfettered access to single sex spaces, as in the Peggie case, is a clear example of trans rights being in tension with women’s rights.

“The other issue here is attempts within Unison to shut down discussions of this issue. Women who are concerned that our rights are under threat are being silenced, forced to whisper in the shadows. It is Orwellian.”

The unions – last bastion of the old-school macho male left. Women, know your place.