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The National Union of Students has passed a motion which urges LGBT societies to abolish representatives for gay men.

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Why? Because gay men ‘do not face oppression as gay men within the LGBT+ community and do not need a reserved place on society committees.’

Needless to say the NUS is under fire.

The motion was passed last week at the NUS LGBT+ Campaign’s annual conference in Sheffield.


NUS passed a motion declaring that gay men don't deserve representation in the LGBT community. Goodbye, sanity. pic.twitter.com/C9TjUi646G — Robbie Travers (@RobbieTravers) March 20, 2016

Pretty appalled that @NUS_LGBT passed this encouraging societies to abolish gay men's reps today pic.twitter.com/FX4gZGf3Ce — Harry Samuels (@CuriousCabbage) March 20, 2016

Delegates at the conference blamed white, cisgender, gay men for the oppression of other sections of the gay community, Attitude reports.

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‘Misogyny, transphobia, racism and biphobia are often present in LGBT+ societies… unfortunately [this is] more likely to occur when the society is dominated by white cis gay men.’



The conference officially adopted a stance to ‘encourage LGBT+ Societies that have a gay men’s rep to drop the position.’

Both the decision and the language used have been fiercely condemned on social media. One user called it ‘backdoor homophobia’.

Metro.co.uk has approached the NUS for comment.

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