The Labour Party has committed itself to self-ID and gender ideology, with Rosie Duffield, the lone gender critical voice on the Labour benches, ostracised and abused. Leader Keir Starmer is on record with his remarks about how it's wrong to say that only women have a cervix. But clinging to gender ideology in the belief that it's the progressive way forward has effectively done for Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland, and things could be headed the same way in Ireland over the Barbie Kardashian farce. Oh dear.
Debbie Hayton at UnHerd - Trans activists are today’s Militant Tendency:
If Labour wants to form a new government, then the party needs a new policy on trans rights. If anyone is still in doubt about that, they need only look north of the border. Three months after Nicola Sturgeon forced her doomed Gender Recognition Reform Bill through Holyrood she is now packing her bags, and the once invincible Scottish National Party is in a tailspin.
Keir Starmer, however, has a problem. He has already sold himself to the activist lobby that thinks the law can be changed to allow anybody to change their legal sex and that nobody will take advantage. That is why senior figures are now warning him to change his trans policy to be more in line with the public’s views on the matter.
When the UK Government finally saw sense and dropped the idea of gender self-ID, the Labour Party reaffirmed its commitment to “introduce self-declaration for trans people”. That was 2020. The following year, Starmer repeated that promise personally in a recorded message for Pride Month. It all seemed so simple when dissenters could be dismissed as transphobic bigots. But the spectacle of double rapist Isla Bryson being sent to a women’s prison put an end to the pretence in Scotland....
The Daily Telegraph indicated that individuals within the party worry that “in trying to do good for a very small minority group, you inadvertently offend an awful lot of women.” But this is not about balancing needs: it is about doing the right thing. Good policy should be good policy for all, but self-ID is bad policy all round. Women are right to protest the impact on their sex-based rights. Meanwhile, I worry that it has had a deleterious impact on the trust and confidence that transsexuals used to take for granted.
The activist lobby is unlikely to give way easily, and no doubt there will be howls and shrieks, but this is a crisis for Labour. Is it the party of working people, or a vehicle for ludicrous ideas? Starmer needs to choose. In 1985, his predecessor Neil Kinnock faced down the Militant Tendency; if Starmer wants to be taken seriously by the electorate, he needs to find the courage and resolve to follow Kinnock’s example.
Well yes, but Kinnock was always in opposition to the Militant Tendency: Starmer, on the other hand, has been vocal in his support for self-ID and all the concomitant trans-women-are-women nonsense. He may well now be realising that he needs to change course, but he can't simply do a reverse ferret and pretend everything's fine and he never believed all that stuff anyway: the evidence is there and can't be denied. So it's not looking good. And he's already in trouble with the left of the party for his push against the Corbynites....
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