The UK’s main higher education union has backed down from a bitter showdown over its stance on transgender rights after it received legal advice.
Members had been due to debate a motion calling on the University and College Union to take a stand against “gender critical” feminists – those who believe it is not possible for people to change their biological sex – at its congress next month.
But key passages from the motion – and an associated amendment – have been struck out “following legal advice that the clauses could not be implemented consistently with the Equality Act 2010”, according to an update to the order paper.
