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.
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
Yeah it’s absolutely wild. Even progressives in the UK are unusually anti-trans and extremely xenophobic and will repeat TERF rhetoric and shit about migrants coming in and claiming mansions on benefits verbatim while usually still claiming to be progressives. They’re not even libs, it’s straight up GOP-level rhetoric.
Somewhat related - Have you seen the UnitedKingdom subreddit? Absolutely insane. If you have not, I would keep away, the damage it has done to my sanity is irreparable. I’m not convinced it’s all just bots either, unless there’s a hidden space on the lemmyverse somewhere or elsewhere where actual progressive brits congregate to discuss internal policy and news it seems to be actually fairly representative of the average british bloodlust as well, even for young metropolitan people.