Overview

• The Trans Rights Alliance has nominated Steph Richards, a trans woman with a gender recognition certificate, for women’s officer on the party’s LGBT+ committee.
• Labour LGB has accused the alliance of violating internal rules by backing what it calls a "man" for the women’s officer post.
• Richards asserts she is legally female and that LGBT+ Labour’s constitution poses no barrier to her candidacy.
• Labour’s cancellation of its annual women’s conference and the committee row both originate from the Supreme Court’s ruling that "sex" in the Equality Act means biological sex not gender identity.
• The full slate of Trans Rights Alliance candidates will be voted on at the LGBT+ Labour annual meeting in North London on July 19.