UNISON has a membership that is around 75% female, yet its response to a legal ruling about women being unlawfully required to share changing rooms with a male colleague leads not with women’s rights – but with trans rights.

What exactly is being defended here? The right of trans people to fair treatment at work – which no one disputes? Or the right of males to access women’s changing rooms – even when women object and the tribunal has now ruled that forcing this is unlawful?

A trade union’s first duty is to protect its members’ legal rights at work. Female members might reasonably ask: who is UNISON actually standing up for?

It’s standing up for the men in dresses.

New hard-left Unison leader Andrea Egan has suggested that banning trans women (men in dresses) from women-only spaces was like banning women with blue eyes or women with blond hair.

To be a trade union leader nowadays, with only activists bothering to vote in leadership elections and turnout often below 10% – Egan was elected with 7% – you just have to mouth the latest left shibboleths and you’re in. No thought required. She’s also a big fan of “Your Party”.

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