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Dr Heather Peto has resigned as co-chair of LGBT+ Labour, citing transphobia. Peto alleges that other officers in LGBT+ Labour “directly discriminated” against her and that, while co-chair, she was excluded from important decisions by “cisgender officers [who] thought they knew more about transgender issues […] than I did”. The veteran Labour activist quit LGBT+ Labour, a party-affiliated group that has campaigned for equality since 1975, on 28 January, just three days after the launch of new campaign group Labour Trans Equality, which she co-sponsored. Moreover in her resignation letter, seen by PinkNews, Peto describes the launch of the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights (LCTR) in February 2020 as a “warning shot” to show LGBT+ Labour “it could not rely on being the exclusive representative of transgender Labour Party members and their allies”. She also reveals that “grievances” led to “this split”. ....
Exclusive Since devolution, Scottish Labour has only elected one openly LGBT parliamentarian, Kezia Dugdale, a record activists have said is not to be proud of LABOUR’S LGBT+ group is aiming to suspend its devolved Scottish wing amidst a dispute over whether it can nominate or endorse candidates in elections. The move, from the England-dominated branch, has been read as an attempt to overrule the party’s internal devolution and silence Scottish voices ahead of the Holyrood party’s leadership election. The Scottish wing had endorsed and promoted several MSP candidates before a letter sent out on Hogmanay by the London group said those candidates should “not claim to be endorsed or nominated by LGBT+ Labour or our subsidiaries . as this is not the case”. ....