Major unions boycott Labour Women’s Conference over trans ban

Labour Women’s Conference has been thrown into chaos after some of the party’s largest unions said they weren’t attending (Picture: In Pictures via Getty Images) Major Labour unions will boycott the party’s women’s conference this year in protest at the exclusion of trans women, Metro can reveal. Unison, Aslef, Usdaw, and the Musicians’ Union will not attend Labour Women’s Conference in September over the decision to ban trans women from formal proceedings at the event. The furious unions are among Labour’s largest financial backers and say the women’s event in Liverpool breaches their views on trans inclusion. Labour cancelled their women’s conference last year after the party received legal advice in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that ‘women’ in the Equality Act referred to biolog