- Conference
- 2023 National LGBT+ Conference
- Date
- 20 July 2023
- Decision
- Carried as Amended
Conference notes that in 2022, the national transgender caucus changed its name to the trans, non-binary and gender diverse network to be more inclusive of all gender identities and expression beyond the gender binary. Conference welcomes this more inclusive name for the network.
Conference further notes that our non-binary and gender diverse members make a valuable contribution to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender plus (LGBT+) Self Organised Group (SOG) and are active at branch, regional and national level because of the provision of general seats on most elected positions within the union.
However, Conference acknowledges that some of the seats on the National Executive Council (NEC) are reserved for people that identify under the gender binary, notably regional seats where there are male, female and low paid reserved seats. These seats restrict our non-binary and gender diverse members’ participation at the highest level of our union.
If we are to be an inclusive, diverse union, we need to ensure that non-binary and gender diverse members can stand at every level of our union. To rectify this, a wide-ranging consultation with other national self-organised groups (SOGs), national young members’ forum (NYMF), retired members’ committee, the NEC and national service group executives (SGEs) needs to be undertaken to continue to ensure proportionality and fair representation is maintained and properly reflects the diversity of our members.
Conference calls on the national LGBT+ committee to:
1)Work with the NEC, National SOG committees, NYMF, retired members committee and Service Group Executives (SGE’s) to explore meaningful actions that creates greater inclusion for our non-binary and gender diverse members at all levels of the union.
2)Promote the need for greater non-binary and gender diverse inclusion in our union by promoting the non-binary inclusion factsheet.
3)Promote non-binary and gender diverse identities through 2024 Year of LGBT+ workers activities.