LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

In the meantime, over a hundred thousand people are living with HIV in the UK still, and thousands are thought to be infected but unaware.

We have work to do to achieve the world we know is possible - thank you to everyone helping us get there. (2/2)

A graphic for World AIDS Day 2025 featuring a large red awareness ribbon over a world map in soft red tones. The Liberal Democrats logo sits at the top. Below the date, four illustrated people stand together smiling, each wearing or holding a red ribbon to show solidarity.

Today is World AIDS Day. We have come a long way since the horrors of the 1980s, which triggered a wave of homophobia which has its echoes today.

HIV is now routinely treatable and for the first time there is the prospect of a world without AIDS too. (1/2)

Thank you to @mariecgoldman.bsky.social, @cajardinemp.bsky.social, @lizbarkerlords.bsky.social and other @libdems.org.uk MPs and Peers who have been working with the APPG on this. It's vital to keep up work on this, particularly now an end to AIDS is possible.

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Thank you for this, @mariecgoldman.bsky.social, and to the dozens of @libdems.org.uk MPs who have already signed her letter. We've been hearing distressing accounts of this sort of exclusion happening already.

The EHRC guidance needs to be rejected and rewritten if it's not good enough.

Thank you, @joshbabarinde.bsky.social 🧡

If you're a member of the LGBT+ Lib Dems, you should have received your ballot email (from OpaVote) for our contested Executive elections, for 1x Policy Officer and 10x Ordinary Executive Members. Do check your Updates/Promotions/Spam folders - you have until 6pm on Friday 05/12 to cast your votes!

Thank you, @joshbabarinde.bsky.social for pressing the government on today's appalling leaked EHRC proposals. It is both sickening and predictable that they should leak on Transgender Day of Remembrance. Thank you for committing the @libdems.org.uk to standing up for our rights.

Today is a day to remember those we have lost in the fight against bigotry and hate. We will always remember their names, and let us never stop fighting in their memory. Transgender Day of Remembrance

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. It hits particularly hard this year - a powerful reminder of why we fight, and a moment to reflect on those no longer with us.

May they rest in power.

Thank you for fighting for trans people, Christine 🏳️‍⚧️

....that should have been spent on campaigning.

We continue to advocate for changing the law to reverse the effects of the FWS decision. We are also working across the party to develop constitutional proposals to bring back suspended quotas, esp. the LGBT+ quota, to the fullest extent possible.
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...and that the only viable alternative in the face of legal threats would be to suspend gender quotas, despite this being completely against our values. The attempt to instead third-space trans people has wasted a huge amount of staff and volunteer time and effort, not to mention money...
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...and those threatening to sue clearly care about trans exclusion and not women’s liberation.

Several months ago, well before the elections, we advised the party that we supported the existing trans-inclusive gender quotas...
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Statement on the Suspension of Trans-Inclusive Quotas 19 Nov 2025 "We are disappointed that, due to legal pressure from transphobic campaign groups following the For Woman Scotland decision, two eminently reasonable quotas in our party's election regulations have been suspended. These suspensions are profoundly anti-queer, anti-trans and anti-feminist, and those threatening to sue clearly care about trans exclusion and not women’s liberation. Several months ago, well before the elections, we advised the party that we supported the existing trans-inclusive gender quotas and that the only viable alternative in the face of legal threats would be to suspend gender quotas, despite this being completely against our values. The attempt to instead third-space trans people has wasted a huge amount of staff and volunteer time and effort, not to mention money that should have been spent on Liberal Democrat campaigning. We continue to advocate for changing the law to reverse the effects of the For Women Scotland decision. We are also working across the party to develop constitutional proposals to bring back the suspended quotas, particularly the LGBT+ quota, to the fullest extent possible." LGBT+ Liberal Democrats Executive Comittee

We are disappointed that, due to legal pressure from transphobic campaign groups following the For Woman Scotland decision, two eminently reasonable quotas in our party's election regulations have been suspended. These suspensions are profoundly anti-queer, anti-trans and anti-feminist...
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Eastbourne MP Josh Babarinde proposes in House of Commons Eastbourne Lib Dem MP Josh Babarinde says he "couldn't be happier" after he popped the question.

Huge congratulations from us to @joshbabarinde.bsky.social and Connor! We *think* this was the first ever proposal by an MP actually in the chamber! 💛🏳️‍🌈

A huge thank you to @charleyhasted.bsky.social and @lukeallanld.bsky.social for being our Co-Chairs in 2025, and congratulations to Lucas North for being elected Chair for 2026.

Thank you as well to @joshbabarinde.bsky.social and to @mariecgoldman.bsky.social for addressing our AGM so well today. 🧡

Trans Awareness Week November 13−19 2025 marks Trans Awareness Week. It is a time to listen to and act on the voices of transgender and non-binary people, celebrate their contributions and resilience, and recognise the ba...

The @libdems.org.uk submitted proposals to allow trans people to correct their birth certificates back in 1998. Now, as then, we stand with trans people and are determined to fight for equality and liberation for all.
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This is a particularly timely Transgender Awareness Week. Thank you to all the trans members of @libdems.org.uk - we see you, we appreciate you, and we're sorry for the grief you go through in the name of our party. We are hugely encouraged by the swell of support for you this year.
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Congratulations to our Honorary Vice President @joshbabarinde.bsky.social on being elected Party President of the @libdems.org.uk. We're delighted to see this result and look forward to continue working closely with him to achieve liberation for all. 🧡

Candidates for 2025 Internal Elections LGBT+ Lib Dems and allies standing in the triennial internal party elections

Voting in the Lib Dem internal party elections closes today at 14:00.

We encourage as many party members as possible to vote - we have some recommendations for who to vote for, too. 👇

Thank you all. 💛

Statement from LGBT+ Liberal Democrats: The Co-Chair of the LGBT+ Liberal Democrats recently had the opportunity to meet with the barrister who issued the legal advice underpinning the Returning Officer’s decision to make the party’s gender quotas trans-exclusionary. The KC had advised that, after nominations for the internal elections closed, no legal avenue would remain available for either keeping gender quotas trans-inclusive or suspending them. Other legal experts take a quite different view, and this raises concerns about the party’s position. LGBT+ Liberal Democrats: • Thank the candidates and AOs that stand alongside us in this struggle. • Believe that it is completely unacceptable that the decision to modify gender quotas was delayed until after the close of nominations, restricting the party's options according to their own legal advice. • Believe that UK law must be changed to restore the rights of trans people, in line with the original intent of the Equality Act 2010, as described by its drafters, and in line with the Goodwin v UK (2002) decision. • Welcome efforts by trans and non-binary members and their allies to test the party's position via the party’s internal appeals processes, and, if necessary, through legal action. We await the full detail of today’s FAP decision. • Will work across the party over the coming weeks and months to develop constitutional proposals that secure trans-inclusive gender quotas and ensure trans-exclusionary gender quotas can never again be imposed. LGBT+ Liberal Democrats remain committed to fighting to secure the liberty and dignity of trans and non-binary people in the UK, and to fighting to uphold the will of Conference within our own party.

The last two weeks have been a tough one for @libdems.org.uk members, through no fault of their own.

We're grateful to the huge number of members, internal election candidates, and fellow Affiliated Organisations like @libdemwomen.bsky.social who have stood alongside us.

Statement below:

On this day of solidarity we extend our love and unconditional support to the intersex community, here in the UK and around the world. The LGBTQIA+ community must stand together with you and empower you to make your own choices for your lives.

November 8th 2025 Intersex Solidarity Day Background: Intersex flag flying

Today is Intersex Solidarity Day.

Intersex people are a distinct and uniquely vulnerable minority who face specific issues in life.

Lib Dem policy, as passed this Spring Conference, calls for a ban on medically unnecessary, non-consensual treatments or surgeries for intersex infants and children.

The RO has no authority to rewrite the Constitution of the party. It is now vital that all @libdems.org.uk members, not just trans ones, revoke the party's right to use their sex-assigned-at-birth data, which they can do easily here:
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Screenclip of an email from the Returning Officer to candidates in the Lib Dem internal elections, setting out how gender and sex-assigned-at-birth data interact with the new "interpretation" of the gender quotas. The email includes a table showing how different combinations of gender and SAAB data will interact with the diversity quotas, showing that candidates the party knows to be non-binary or trans will be included in the Article 2.6 quota rather than the gender quota in Article 2.5.

The RO in our internal elections has sent this update round. It is nowhere near good enough: trans and non-binary candidates should never be third-spaced in this way. The gender quotas in Article 2.5 of the party Constitution should be implemented as-written - or suspended if they can't be.
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I know it’s hard but… please stay It’s been a difficult time in this party recently. I’ll admit that. Those of us who are trans and non-binary have been vilified not just in the media, but within our own party too. I understand why so...

Our Membership Development Officer, Onyx Rist, writes in @libdemvoice.org today 🧡👇

Thank you, Chris. It's to our party's shame that you had to write this in the first place. 🧡

Reflecting on a week as a trans Lib Dem councillor Last week has been hard and the subject of a lot of soul searching. I’m a Lib Dem for a lot of reasons. I believe in the values of liberalism and appreciate how the party approaches the nuance of thos...

Excellent and sobering piece in @libdemvoice.org today by Cllr. Chris Northwood. All @libdems.org.uk members should read it. 👇

Huge congratulations to our allies in the Netherlands @d66.nl - a highlight of the autumn so far! 💚