Starmer had previously refused to state whether trans women like Lia Thomas should be allowed to compete in women’s sport amid accusations from Harry Potter author JK Rowling that his party could “no longer be counted on to defend women’s rights”.
Ah, so this is what the Labour party is designed to do: make billionaire feel better about imaginary threats from minority groups.
This right here. This is why you need to purge the actual, committed liberals from your org. They will do much worse if given the chance.
As a rule I believe that everyone has a right to bodily integrity but I’m willing to make an exception for Keir Starmer.
death panel had an ep from February I think that discussed one of the co-hosts’ new book, A Short History Of Trans Misogyny, where she posits that terf island is the way it is in part because their colonial apparatus was deeply involved with policing the sexuality of the colonized where norms about gender and sexuality were nothing like those in England but nonetheless had to conform to that violent structure.
Can someone explain to me how, cis women are able to compete fairly with trans women?
No sport is fair. Literally NO sport is fair.
People under six feet can’t play in the NFL. Is it fair? No. It’s sports.
There have been cis-gendered women (usually black) who have been disqualified on suspicion of being transgender because their bodies naturally produce high levels of testosterone. Should black women be banned from sports to make competitions more “fair” for white women? Should they do a DNA test before every race and apply handicaps based on individual genes? Sports are not fair. Never have been.
it doesn’t really matter when we are being murdered by the state and by fascists in the street, is the point. politicians jumping on the bandwagon to shit on us like this is cruel opportunism that helps get more of us killed.
I think it’s not a big enough problem to care abt. It’s literally just a conservative wedge issue so people get up in arms about trans women.
Besides, sports governing bodies already have criteria about what biology is allowed to compete. There have been many times that even masculine cis women have fallen under their scrutiny for having hormone profiles that give them too much of an advantage. I don’t know why this topic gets dragged out onto the public square. (Except I do, and it’s GOP strategy.) It’s like if the entire country started panicking about swimmers having suits that are too high-tech. Who gives a fuck.
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Ah, Stalin was right about social democracy being the “moderate wing of fascism.”
He just supports whatever is the most popular policy on trans people as per the yougov poll lol. https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/43194-where-does-british-public-stand-transgender-rights-1
He’s not any more transphobic than the average Briton. I would argue he’s less so because he doesn’t seem to want to limit our healthcare access yet, although NHSE already drafted some dystopian guidance that will turn it all into conversion therapy thinly veiled in double-speak. To any British trans people reading this I’d start making plans to leave.
If he wants to blow with the wind the Lib Dems are always recruiting, but he is meant to be leading the progressive wing of British politics. The same yougov poll shows attitudes towards transgender people have been steadily improving over the last few years, and that Labour voters are much more likely to support transgender rights.
Jezza shoulda purged him with extreme prejudice.
“not any more transphobic than the average Briton“
I mean doesn’t that say something? What a fuckin nightmare
Ah, so this is what the Labour party is designed to do: make billionaire feel better about imaginary threats from minority groups.
