Labour Suspends its ‘Instant Woman’ Member

Labour Suspends its ‘Instant Woman’ Member

The row in the Labour Party over ​’transgender rights’ has taken a new escalation with news that the Party has suspend​ed​ ​an ​who has dared to challenge​ Labour’s gender self identification policy.​​

Lewis said he had decided to stand for the role, which Labour rules say can only be held by a woman, in order to draw attention to Labour’s policy of self-definition, where a person is recognised as a woman if they define themselves as such.

“I self-identify as a woman on Wednesdays, between 6.50am when my alarm goes off and around midnight when I go to bed,” he told the Spectator. “My priority here is to inform the CLP, and maybe some other people, about what this policy means, about what happens when you say that someone’s gender depends only on what they say and nothing else.”

A ​Labour ​Party spokeswoman said the Party was “committed to upholding the principle of affirmative action for women” but added that obvious abuse of the process would not be tolerated.

“Anyone attempting to breach Labour ​P​arty rules and subvert the intention of all-women shortlists, women’s officers or minimum quotas for women will be dealt with via our established safeguards, selection procedures and disciplinary measures,” ​she said.

The ​Labour ​Party recently suspended a number of campaigners who vociferously opposed the policy of allowing ​‘trans women​’ ​to be permitted to be ​on all-women shortlists, including several who had crowdfunded a legal challenge to the policy.​