LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@pluslibdems.bsky.social
The Liberal Democrats party body for gender and sexual minorities. Campaigning for equality. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Promoted by LGBT+ Lib Dems, 66 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6AU.
👉 lgbt.libdems.org.uk
👉 lgbt.libdems.org.uk
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Statement from us on today's ruling:
"As LGBT+ Liberal Democrats... we don't think Britain is the sort of country where people should have to show their 'papers, please' in order to use the loo. ...we do not support efforts to legislate in ignorance to enforce conformity."
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"As LGBT+ Liberal Democrats... we don't think Britain is the sort of country where people should have to show their 'papers, please' in order to use the loo. ...we do not support efforts to legislate in ignorance to enforce conformity."
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Thank you, @joshbabarinde.bsky.social 🧡
Gay MP perfectly explains why EHRC’s ‘shocking’ guidance on single-sex spaces is ‘unworkable’
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/ehrc-guidance-trans-josh-babarinde-lib-dem/?utm_content=1764164402&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/ehrc-guidance-trans-josh-babarinde-lib-dem/?utm_content=1764164402&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Thank you, @joshbabarinde.bsky.social 🧡
If you're a member of the LGBT+ Lib Dems, you should have received your ballot email (from OpaVote) for our contested Executive elections, for 1x Policy Officer and 10x Ordinary Executive Members. Do check your Updates/Promotions/Spam folders - you have until 6pm on Friday 05/12 to cast your votes!
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
If you're a member of the LGBT+ Lib Dems, you should have received your ballot email (from OpaVote) for our contested Executive elections, for 1x Policy Officer and 10x Ordinary Executive Members. Do check your Updates/Promotions/Spam folders - you have until 6pm on Friday 05/12 to cast your votes!
Thank you, @joshbabarinde.bsky.social for pressing the government on today's appalling leaked EHRC proposals. It is both sickening and predictable that they should leak on Transgender Day of Remembrance. Thank you for committing the @libdems.org.uk to standing up for our rights.
November 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Thank you, @joshbabarinde.bsky.social for pressing the government on today's appalling leaked EHRC proposals. It is both sickening and predictable that they should leak on Transgender Day of Remembrance. Thank you for committing the @libdems.org.uk to standing up for our rights.
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. It hits particularly hard this year - a powerful reminder of why we fight, and a moment to reflect on those no longer with us.
May they rest in power.
May they rest in power.
November 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. It hits particularly hard this year - a powerful reminder of why we fight, and a moment to reflect on those no longer with us.
May they rest in power.
May they rest in power.
Thank you for fighting for trans people, Christine 🏳️⚧️
After several difficult years for the trans community, we must continue to stand up for the rights of trans people across the UK and the world and fight discrimination wherever we find it #TransAwarenessWeek
November 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Thank you for fighting for trans people, Christine 🏳️⚧️
We are disappointed that, due to legal pressure from transphobic campaign groups following the For Woman Scotland decision, two eminently reasonable quotas in our party's election regulations have been suspended. These suspensions are profoundly anti-queer, anti-trans and anti-feminist...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
We are disappointed that, due to legal pressure from transphobic campaign groups following the For Woman Scotland decision, two eminently reasonable quotas in our party's election regulations have been suspended. These suspensions are profoundly anti-queer, anti-trans and anti-feminist...
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Huge congratulations from us to @joshbabarinde.bsky.social and Connor! We *think* this was the first ever proposal by an MP actually in the chamber! 💛🏳️🌈
Eastbourne MP Josh Babarinde proposes in House of Commons
Eastbourne Lib Dem MP Josh Babarinde says he "couldn't be happier" after he popped the question.
www.bbc.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Huge congratulations from us to @joshbabarinde.bsky.social and Connor! We *think* this was the first ever proposal by an MP actually in the chamber! 💛🏳️🌈
A huge thank you to @charleyhasted.bsky.social and @lukeallanld.bsky.social for being our Co-Chairs in 2025, and congratulations to Lucas North for being elected Chair for 2026.
Thank you as well to @joshbabarinde.bsky.social and to @mariecgoldman.bsky.social for addressing our AGM so well today. 🧡
Thank you as well to @joshbabarinde.bsky.social and to @mariecgoldman.bsky.social for addressing our AGM so well today. 🧡
Just finished my last AGM as Co-Chair of @pluslibdems.bsky.social. It's been brilliant to work with @lukeallanld.bsky.social and I'm looking forward to handing over to Lucas North who'll be taking over in January.
November 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A huge thank you to @charleyhasted.bsky.social and @lukeallanld.bsky.social for being our Co-Chairs in 2025, and congratulations to Lucas North for being elected Chair for 2026.
Thank you as well to @joshbabarinde.bsky.social and to @mariecgoldman.bsky.social for addressing our AGM so well today. 🧡
Thank you as well to @joshbabarinde.bsky.social and to @mariecgoldman.bsky.social for addressing our AGM so well today. 🧡
This is a particularly timely Transgender Awareness Week. Thank you to all the trans members of @libdems.org.uk - we see you, we appreciate you, and we're sorry for the grief you go through in the name of our party. We are hugely encouraged by the swell of support for you this year.
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Today is the beginning of Trans Awareness Week.
It’s an opportunity for us to celebrate trans people, acknowledge the challenges they face, and reflect on how we as a society can work together to improve trans people’s lives.
It’s an opportunity for us to celebrate trans people, acknowledge the challenges they face, and reflect on how we as a society can work together to improve trans people’s lives.
November 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This is a particularly timely Transgender Awareness Week. Thank you to all the trans members of @libdems.org.uk - we see you, we appreciate you, and we're sorry for the grief you go through in the name of our party. We are hugely encouraged by the swell of support for you this year.
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Congratulations to our Honorary Vice President @joshbabarinde.bsky.social on being elected Party President of the @libdems.org.uk. We're delighted to see this result and look forward to continue working closely with him to achieve liberation for all. 🧡
Congratulations to @JoshBabarinde.bsky.social - newly elected President of the Liberal Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Congratulations to our Honorary Vice President @joshbabarinde.bsky.social on being elected Party President of the @libdems.org.uk. We're delighted to see this result and look forward to continue working closely with him to achieve liberation for all. 🧡
Voting in the Lib Dem internal party elections closes today at 14:00.
We encourage as many party members as possible to vote - we have some recommendations for who to vote for, too. 👇
We encourage as many party members as possible to vote - we have some recommendations for who to vote for, too. 👇
Candidates for 2025 Internal Elections
LGBT+ Lib Dems and allies standing in the triennial internal party elections
lgbt.libdems.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Voting in the Lib Dem internal party elections closes today at 14:00.
We encourage as many party members as possible to vote - we have some recommendations for who to vote for, too. 👇
We encourage as many party members as possible to vote - we have some recommendations for who to vote for, too. 👇
Thank you all. 💛
We stand firmly for LGBT+ rights as inalienable human rights.
We'll support our members and we're committed to seeking advice from fellow AOs on their area of expertise.
We'll support our members and we're committed to seeking advice from fellow AOs on their area of expertise.
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Thank you all. 💛
The last two weeks have been a tough one for @libdems.org.uk members, through no fault of their own.
We're grateful to the huge number of members, internal election candidates, and fellow Affiliated Organisations like @libdemwomen.bsky.social who have stood alongside us.
Statement below:
We're grateful to the huge number of members, internal election candidates, and fellow Affiliated Organisations like @libdemwomen.bsky.social who have stood alongside us.
Statement below:
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The last two weeks have been a tough one for @libdems.org.uk members, through no fault of their own.
We're grateful to the huge number of members, internal election candidates, and fellow Affiliated Organisations like @libdemwomen.bsky.social who have stood alongside us.
Statement below:
We're grateful to the huge number of members, internal election candidates, and fellow Affiliated Organisations like @libdemwomen.bsky.social who have stood alongside us.
Statement below:
Today is Intersex Solidarity Day.
Intersex people are a distinct and uniquely vulnerable minority who face specific issues in life.
Lib Dem policy, as passed this Spring Conference, calls for a ban on medically unnecessary, non-consensual treatments or surgeries for intersex infants and children.
Intersex people are a distinct and uniquely vulnerable minority who face specific issues in life.
Lib Dem policy, as passed this Spring Conference, calls for a ban on medically unnecessary, non-consensual treatments or surgeries for intersex infants and children.
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Today is Intersex Solidarity Day.
Intersex people are a distinct and uniquely vulnerable minority who face specific issues in life.
Lib Dem policy, as passed this Spring Conference, calls for a ban on medically unnecessary, non-consensual treatments or surgeries for intersex infants and children.
Intersex people are a distinct and uniquely vulnerable minority who face specific issues in life.
Lib Dem policy, as passed this Spring Conference, calls for a ban on medically unnecessary, non-consensual treatments or surgeries for intersex infants and children.
The RO in our internal elections has sent this update round. It is nowhere near good enough: trans and non-binary candidates should never be third-spaced in this way. The gender quotas in Article 2.5 of the party Constitution should be implemented as-written - or suspended if they can't be.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The RO in our internal elections has sent this update round. It is nowhere near good enough: trans and non-binary candidates should never be third-spaced in this way. The gender quotas in Article 2.5 of the party Constitution should be implemented as-written - or suspended if they can't be.
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Our Membership Development Officer, Onyx Rist, writes in @libdemvoice.org today 🧡👇
I know it’s hard but… please stay
It’s been a difficult time in this party recently. I’ll admit that. Those of us who are trans and non-binary have been vilified not just in the media, but within our own party too. I understand why so...
www.libdemvoice.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Our Membership Development Officer, Onyx Rist, writes in @libdemvoice.org today 🧡👇
Excellent and sobering piece in @libdemvoice.org today by Cllr. Chris Northwood. All @libdems.org.uk members should read it. 👇
Reflecting on a week as a trans Lib Dem councillor
Last week has been hard and the subject of a lot of soul searching. I’m a Lib Dem for a lot of reasons. I believe in the values of liberalism and appreciate how the party approaches the nuance of thos...
www.libdemvoice.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Excellent and sobering piece in @libdemvoice.org today by Cllr. Chris Northwood. All @libdems.org.uk members should read it. 👇
Huge congratulations to our allies in the Netherlands @d66.nl - a highlight of the autumn so far! 💚
Netherlands, 9:30 PM Ipsos-I&O exit poll:
Seat projection national parliament
D66-RE: 27 (+18)
PVV-PfE: 25 (-12)
VVD-RE: 23 (-1)
GL/PvdA-G/EFA|S&D: 20 (-5)
CDA-EPP: 19 (+14)
JA21~ECR: 9 (+8)
FvD-ESN: 6 (+3)
BBB-EPP: 4 (-3)
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+/- vs. Last election result
➤ europeelects.eu/netherlands
Seat projection national parliament
D66-RE: 27 (+18)
PVV-PfE: 25 (-12)
VVD-RE: 23 (-1)
GL/PvdA-G/EFA|S&D: 20 (-5)
CDA-EPP: 19 (+14)
JA21~ECR: 9 (+8)
FvD-ESN: 6 (+3)
BBB-EPP: 4 (-3)
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+/- vs. Last election result
➤ europeelects.eu/netherlands
October 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Huge congratulations to our allies in the Netherlands @d66.nl - a highlight of the autumn so far! 💚
Someone asked us if the events earlier this week around quotas affected our endorsements in the @libdems.org.uk internal elections. This was our answer.
No, actually: the reaction of the candidates has by and large been excellent. Our honorary vice-president @joshbabarinde.bsky.social and member @pruebray.bsky.social have both shown excellent leadership in their responses, and we are happy to recommend both of them for Party President, for instance.
October 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Someone asked us if the events earlier this week around quotas affected our endorsements in the @libdems.org.uk internal elections. This was our answer.
Are you a 🔶 @libdems.org.uk member? If so, you get a vote in the party's internal elections, but it's a long ballot. Our recommendations on how to vote are here - some excellent candidates standing. 👇
Candidates for 2025 Internal Elections
LGBT+ Lib Dems and allies standing in the triennial internal party elections
lgbt.libdems.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Are you a 🔶 @libdems.org.uk member? If so, you get a vote in the party's internal elections, but it's a long ballot. Our recommendations on how to vote are here - some excellent candidates standing. 👇
If you're a candidate in the @libdems.org.uk internal elections, or ever have been, please revoke the party's right to use or hold your sex assigned at birth. We have a handy form: 👇
lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...
lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...
Lib Dem Internal Elections – Sex Assigned At Birth Data Consent Withdrawal – LGBT+ Liberal Democrats
lgbtlibdems.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
If you're a candidate in the @libdems.org.uk internal elections, or ever have been, please revoke the party's right to use or hold your sex assigned at birth. We have a handy form: 👇
lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...
lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...
Please sign our open letter to the @libdems.org.uk party asling for the awful decision over diversity quotas to be scrapped. 👇
lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...
lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...
Lib Dem Internal Elections 2025 – LGBT+ Liberal Democrats
lgbtlibdems.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Please sign our open letter to the @libdems.org.uk party asling for the awful decision over diversity quotas to be scrapped. 👇
lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...
lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...
LGBT+ Liberal Democrats condemn our party's decision to base internal gender quotas on sex assigmed at birth.
This trans-exclusionary decision is an attack on one of the most vulnerable groups in our society.
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This trans-exclusionary decision is an attack on one of the most vulnerable groups in our society.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
LGBT+ Liberal Democrats condemn our party's decision to base internal gender quotas on sex assigmed at birth.
This trans-exclusionary decision is an attack on one of the most vulnerable groups in our society.
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This trans-exclusionary decision is an attack on one of the most vulnerable groups in our society.
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Thank you for this, Marie. 🧡
The voices of trans people must be heard in Parliament.️ I’ve urged full scrutiny of EHRC’s guidance, which risks undermining their rights. Lib Dems call on the Government to protect everyone fairly and ensure people aren’t excluded from safe facilities or public life.
October 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Thank you for this, Marie. 🧡
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October 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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