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... I don't think they have a transphobic stance.
Honestly, these posts all read like an aunt's Facebook echo chamber comments. I'm yet to hear a coherent assessment of why Starmer's Labour are transphobic in rhetoric, policy, or action. Absolutely open to having my mind changed when one emerges.
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The vibes are this…
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https://x.com/LeftieStats/status/1785290911351550431
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/25/keir-starmer-trans-education-general-election-2024/
the fact that duffield is still in the party.
the plan to implement the recommendations of the Cass report "exploratory* therapy" and all.
*conversion
just based on a quick Google, there's plenty more
dsalmon
chickenbones
Despite the recent weird flex by Sir K (I can only think he got a bit carried away with the pre-election don't be seen as woke rheotric) they don't actually have one. If you actually look at their policies, Starmer has said Labour won't change the Equalities Act (which Kemi Badenoch had vowed to amend to make it harder for trans people to access single sex spaces).
Starmer has also said that Labour will 'reset the toxic trans discourse', that treating trans people with respect has “seemingly been lost in the last 14 years” and he is “determined to change that”. He also said in one of the debates that the Tories had been using trans people as a political football.
It is Labour policy to to modernise and simplify the gender recognition law (which they've called outdated) to remove indignities for trans people.
And right now the TERFs are losing their shit on Twitter and calling for Rosie Duffield to get the job because they think Anneliese Dodds is about to be announced as Women and Equalities Minister and SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT A WOMAN IS and the Telegraph thinks she's pushing transgender ideology.
So... I don't think they have a transphobic stance.