Party hopes to ‘shift the dial’ on fraught debate ahead of decision on Gender Recognition Act
There was an invitation to allow for discomfort and a reminder that there was no such thing as a stupid question, as the Women’s Equality Party (WEP) began what has been described as Britain’s largest direct consultation of women on self-identification for transgender people.
Acknowledging on Wednesday night that the issue divided its membership, the WEP has borrowed from the citizens’ assembly model used in Ireland to reach consensus on abortion law, in order to “shift the dial” on a seemingly intractable and often toxic debate.
