> On 10 Jul 2018, at 2:27 am, Tapani Tarvainen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 03:59:29PM +0200, Johan Helsingius ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>> On 07-07-18 16:41, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
>> 
>>> David's description below is correct, but there's another relevant
>>> issue, namely gender balance: there must be at least two councillors
>>> of each gender, and that is stronger than the regional balance
>>> requirement.
>> 
>> I assume we haven't had a member yet that refuses to identify
>> with a specific gender, or identifies as multiple genders?
> 
> No we haven't, or at least not as a candidate in any election as far
> as I know - no way of knowing about members otherwise, we don't ask
> for gender in the member application form nor record it in the member
> database.

	Yes, not as a candidate for a council election.
> 
> Should such a person run for council - I don't know how it'd be dealt
> with. One way that I could see as charter-compliant would be counting
> them in neither gender category, i.e., that there'd have to be at
> least two men and two women and at most two who are neither. But I can
> imagine other interpretations, too.

	I agree with Tapani’s interpretation of the current rules here.

	David