UK: Labour backtracks on gender self-determination Even the Labour Party has realised that the fight for trans rights may cost it a large slice of the female electorate. And it changes course on self-determination by assuring that it will defend the right to reserved spaces for women, the first among progressive parties to change course. And the Italian left? It will get there last, as usual. But it will get there
While the Italian progressives continue to hold firm on gender self-determination or self-id - Elly Schlein's programmatic point in the primaries and always at the top of the thoughts of the PD's rights manager Alessandro Zan: they will be the last to change their minds but they will change it - in view of the upcoming UK general election Labour is putting on the brakes decisively: the issue is of great relevance in the current election campaign. From the opposition Labour has always held the line of support for so-called LGBTQ rights [...]
