The Guardian has just published this. An extract:
Senior figures in the party – including Jeremy Corbyn and Harriet Harman – are strongly supportive of the clarification in policy. A spokeswoman for Harman, the former deputy leader of Labour, said she backed the affirmation that trans women should be able to stand for all-women shortlists without needing a gender recognition certificate. Corbyn said at the weekend: “The position of the party is that where you have self-identified as a woman, then you are treated as a woman.”
But it is understood some Labour MPs are anxious to make sure that there are some safeguards written into the policies to stop, for example, a men’s rights activist attempting to stand as a woman to test the legalities. [J4MB emphasis. The Labour party is dismissing even the possibility that trans women might be men’s rights activists. Outrageous. So having a penis and testicles, a big bushy beard, and a booming voice – basically, being Brian Blessed – won’t make you ineligible to be on a Labour all-women shortlist, but being an activist on behalf of men will? What bizarre times we live in. Why would a man vote for the Labour party today?]
Coming soon, to a Labour all-women shortlist near you:
Justice for Men & Boys 
“Some Labour MPs are anxious to make sure that there are some safeguards written into the policies to stop, for example, a men’s rights activist attempting to stand as a woman to test the legalities. ”
Yes of course, because we wouldn’t want to test the law using free and fair arguments in open debate would we?
Much better to keep it all decided away from public scrutiny and awkward questions.
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i would really love to see a challenge from a genuine trans person who would also be in favour of equal rights for all( not that dodgy cowboy party that calls itself feminism). would be great to watch the labour party squirm in the limelight as they try to disqualify a trans person over a feminist..
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Totally bizarre. Could only have appeared in their house magazine for fellow nutters. Labour richly deserves what awaits them.
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Well of course Hattie would, seeing as her husband won in a all women shortlist seat.
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Simple answer. No all women shortlists.
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i really hope that this issue is giving the labour leadership a severe case of the runs over this..
because we all know what happens next?
the labour party will have to have an all LGBT shortlist to carry on with their virtue signalling, rather than acknowledge the best short list ever to use in these circumstances. a gender/sexuality/disability/religious neutral merit shortlist.
I would seriously like a tick mark next to every candidate on the ballot slip to indicate that their candidacy was submitted on any kind of shortlist, and that failure to do so ( on every single ballot paper) is an automatic dismissal from the job( with a ban for five years from politics).
But then I guess that so many political parties are more interested in NOT serving the people that they want to elect them.
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Imagine how they would react to a party on the far right introducing all-white shortlists. They would roll out all the reasons that their own all-woman shortlists are immoral and absurd.
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