‘Labour backed me as a woman – now I’m banned from their women’s conference’

Steph Richards said she is devastated she won’t be able to attend after Labour treated her like a woman before the Supreme Court ruling (Picture: Steph Richards) A women’s health campaigner and former local Labour women’s officer has been banned from the party’s women’s conference because she is trans. Steph Richards is ‘gutted’ to have been effectively labelled a man by the party which she said once selected her as a candidate from an all-women shortlist. The activist, who served as CEO of an endometriosis charity, also says the conference will miss out on her vital expertise on women’s health challenges. Labour voted last year to exclude trans women from taking part in formal proceedings at the women’s conference in Liverpool this September following the Supreme Court ruling on sex last