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Politics July 29, 2026

Major Unions Boycott LabWomen Con over Trans Ban

Major Unions Boycott LabWomen Con over Trans Ban

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Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers her speech at the 2025 Labour Party Conference on the 29th of September 2025 in Liverpool, United Kingdom. (Photo: Getty Images)

In a shock move, major unions have decided to withdraw their support for Labour Party's Women's Conference.

Labour's Women's Conference has become a flashpoint of controversy as the party is accused of creating a legal grey area that undermines trans rights.

Several of the party's largest unions have confirmed in a statement that they will not be attending the Labour Women's Conference.

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 25: Bridget Phillipson, Secretary of State for Education Minister for Women & Equalities, speaks during the Labour Party Conference 2024 at ACC Liverpool on September 25, 2024 in Liverpool, England. This is Labour's first conference since they were returned as the governing party of The UK and Northern Ireland by voters in the July election, ending 14 years of Conservative rule. They won with a landslide majority of 172 seats, and 412 in total. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Amidst the backlash against the party, the Women's Conference will continue as planned.

The party had promised to include trans women in its policies, but has now excluded them entirely from their formal events

Labour has faced criticism for not making their policies fully inclusive of transgender rights, a fact that has caused consternation within the party.

Transgender activists have warned that the Labour Party's Women's Conference is in danger of being seen as 'victim-blaming'

DURHAM, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 11: A general view of people attend the 140th Durham Miners' Gala, known simply as The Big Meeting on July 11, 2026 in Durham, United Kingdom. The Gala continues a tradition first established by the Durham Miners' Association in 1871 which was once sustained by the wages of the miners themselves. The Gala now survives through collective donations by 'the marras' (friends), long after the coalfields which shaped this region have closed. Each year, more than 200,000 people gather in Durham in what remains the world's largest celebration of community and trade unionism and internationalism. It is more than a commemoration of the coal industry; it is an act of remembrance, where banners, brass bands, families and former mining communities reaffirm a shared history of labour, solidarity and collective struggle. The 2026 Gala carries particular resonance, marking one hundred years since the 1926 General Strike and the miners' lockout. In a landscape transformed by de-industrialisation, the Big Meeting stands as a reminder that memory is not only preserved in monuments or archives, but carried forward by those who continue to walk these streets together. (Photo by Simone Jimena Rudolphi/Drik/Getty Images)

Labour Party's Women's Conference is set to take place as planned, despite the controversy surrounding the conference,

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