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LGBT+ Campaign Live Policy 2014-17 LGBT+ Campaign Live Policy 2014-17 Author & Job Madeleine Spink, Executive Office Manager title: Date Produced: 28/04/2016 Meeting date: n/a Meeting of: n/a Action: Note Summary: This paper contains all the live policy for the LGBT+ Students Campaign as agreed by LGBT+ Students Conference 2014, 2015 and 2016. Equality Impact n/a Assessment: Publication For publication and circulation to Student’s Unions Contents Policy Policy passed at LGBT Conference 2014 30 Policy passed at LGBT+ Conference 2015 31 Policy passed at LGBT+ Conference 2016 68 Purpose of This Document This document contains all the policy currently in effect for the LGBT+ Campaign. This is the policy that the LGBT+ Officers and the LGBT+ Committee are responsible for implementing and is sometime known as ‘Live Policy’. Policy Lapse Policy Lapses in 2 circumstances 1. If a subsequent policy over-rides it. 2. After 3 years unless LGBT+ Conference votes to renew it. Policy passed at LGBT+ Conference 2014 will lapse at the end of National Conference 2017. What You Need To Do If you are considering submitting policy to LGBT+ Conference you should first check whether any policy is currently ‘live’ for that issue and whether you need to change the National Union’s current stance on that area of work. If you require this document in an alternative format contact [email protected] 1 Contents Policy passed at LGBT Conference 2014 ................................................................................................... 7 Education .......................................................................................................................................... 7 Motion 101: End Degree Certificate Discrimination! ................................................................................ 7 Motion 102: Education/Teachers .......................................................................................................... 7 Motion 103: Defend Further Education – fight the unfair welfare cut! ........................................................ 8 Motion 104: Access to Education .......................................................................................................... 9 Motion 105: Queering the Sciences..................................................................................................... 11 Motion 106: Equality in Education ...................................................................................................... 12 Strong and Active Unions .................................................................................................................. 13 Motion 201: An Accessible Campaign .................................................................................................. 13 Motion 202: Black LGBT sub-committee - creating safer autonomous space ............................................ 13 Motion 203: Be careful with each other, so we can dangerous together ................................................... 14 Motion 204: Access Goes Further Than Finance .................................................................................... 14 Society and Citizenship ..................................................................................................................... 16 Motion 301: Action for trans* health ................................................................................................... 16 Motion 301: No ‘T’ in “equal marriage” ................................................................................................ 16 Motion 302: LGBT Asylum in the UK ................................................................................................... 17 Motion 303: Cops off campus, cops off pride ........................................................................................ 18 Motion 304: No Transphobes in NUS LGBT .......................................................................................... 19 Motion 305: The General Election ....................................................................................................... 19 Motion 306: Supporting LGBT students in the North of Ireland ............................................................... 20 Motion 307: End the Cis washing of the Stonewall Riots! ....................................................................... 21 Motion 308: Celebrating fluidity and recognizing diversity ..................................................................... 22 Motion 311: Democratising Trans Healthcare ....................................................................................... 22 Motion 312: Equal employee family leave and pay (gender and sexual orientation) .................................. 23 Motion 313: LGBT Students and Unemployment ................................................................................... 24 Motion 314: Church of England .......................................................................................................... 25 Motion 315: It’s not all fun and games after the Olympics have ended – There’s more to International LGBT right than Sochi ............................................................................................................................... 25 Welfare ........................................................................................................................................... 27 Motion 401: Mental Health ................................................................................................................ 27 Motion 402: Smashing the Sex-by-Deception Myth ............................................................................... 27 Motion 404: Reproductive justice for students in the north of Ireland ...................................................... 28 Motion 405: Self-Care is Vital ............................................................................................................ 29 Motion 406: Body Positivity ............................................................................................................... 30 2 Motion 407: Support and Visibility for LGBT Polyamorous Students......................................................... 30 Policy Passed at LGBT Conference 2015 ................................................................................................. 32 Zone: Welfare and Student Rights ...................................................................................................... 32 Motion 101: End Transphobia, Biphobia and Islamophobia on Campus .................................................... 32 Motion 102: The rent is too damn high! .............................................................................................. 32 Motion 103: Standing up for LGBT student sex workers, supporting the decriminalisation of sex work ........ 33 Motion 104: Dear White Gay Men: Stop Appropriating Black Women ...................................................... 35 Zone: Society and Citizenship ............................................................................................................ 37 Motion 201: A cut above the rest: LGBTQ people and austerity .............................................................. 37 Motion 202: Actively Fighting For LGBTQIA+ Asylum Rights .................................................................. 38 Motion 203: Blood should save lives, not restrict them .......................................................................... 40 Motion 204: International Solidarity: Rainbow International Campaign/Fund ........................................... 40 Motion 205: That institutional homophobia goes beyond the Blood Service .............................................. 41 Conference Resolves ......................................................................................................................... 41 Motion 206: Trans Reproductive Rights Now! ....................................................................................... 41 Motion 207: European Solidarity ........................................................................................................ 42 Motion 208: End the whitewashing of the Stonewall Riots ...................................................................... 43 Motion 209: Government healthcare cuts ............................................................................................ 44 Motion 210: Say No to Pinkwashing .................................................................................................... 45 Motion 211: Playing Against Discrimination.......................................................................................... 46 Motion 212: Let TPoC lead TDoR events .............................................................................................. 46 Zone: Education ............................................................................................................................... 48 Motion 301: LGBT+ Training for Psychological Therapies Students .......................................................... 48 Motion 302: Liberate our curricula ...................................................................................................... 49 Motion 303: Free Education for all ...................................................................................................... 50 Motion 304: Screening for criminals doesn’t protect students ................................................................. 51 Zone: Strong and Active Unions ........................................................................................................
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