(1) @VictoriaPeckham Last night the LibDems debated a 'business' motion about management of its conference. Ostensibly it was about respecting trans people & their pronouns & bathroom facilities. Of course it wasn't about that at all.

(2) It was a trap intended to render future debate about women's sex based rights impossible & make it easy to expel feminists & their supporters from the party. When taken together with last week's party definition of transphobia with its accompanying discipline policy,

(3) it is now a 'crime' to believe that trans women are not the same as biological women & unbelievers face compulsory re education or expulsion. Monday's otherwise uncontentious motion included the phrase,

(4) "Trans women are women . . " which opponents were told was integral to the motion & could not be removed by a separate vote. This sets the stage for expelling any party member who believes the words of the party's own constitution's preamble that state:

(5) "we reject all prejudice and discrimination based upon . . . sex or sexual orientation". It will no longer be possible to campaign within the party for women's sex based rights under the 2010 Equality Act to be balanced & protected vis a vis trans women's rights,

(6) because the party's considered position is that they are the same. In other words, it is no longer possible to differentiate between people with male bodies & people with female bodies, so there can no longer be any sex based rights.

(7) Members who say otherwise will be re educated or expelled. This is a terrifying & totalitarian position for a supposedly liberal party to adopt & completely undermines its position as a woman friendly organisation.

(8) Women are potentially under threat from trans women or men who may pose as trans women in sport, prison, changing rooms, rape shelters, etc. Currently exemption protections are provided for in the 2010 Equality Act.

(9) Women, don't expect the LibDems to defend your sex based rights in future. You have been thrown under a bus by the party. The party's trans policy has been adopted to accommodate extremists & is not in line with the views of many prominent trans people, including

(10) @DebbieHayton & @BuckAngel who accept that they retain the biological sex they started out with. This situation was an avoidable car-crash but the party establishment has its fingers in its ears.

(11) I have been a Liberal & Liberal Democrat since 1966 because I care about human rights, all human rights, not just the rights of one group. The rights of different groups require respect & a solution that is mutually agreed. This is a dark day for my party.