Andrew Marr: "Is someone who thinks that only women have a cervix welcome in the Labor Party?"
Keir Starmer: "We need to have a mature, respectful debate about trans rights."
The question was about WOMEN.
Keir Starmer: "We need to have a mature, respectful debate about trans rights."
The question was about WOMEN.
Starmer continues: "Bear in mind that the trans community are among the most marginalised and abused communities."
We will *never* have the respectful, mature debate about trans rights that Starmer claims to want while politicians are unable even to utter the word 'woman'.
We will *never* have the respectful, mature debate about trans rights that Starmer claims to want while politicians are unable even to utter the word 'woman'.
This is a women's rights issue - at stake is who should access women's rights, spaces, provisions and on what basis. Responding to questions about women with a lecture on trans oppression is the problem, not the solution. Thank you @AndrewMarr9 for pursuing this. #WomenMatter
Marr: Is it transphobic to say "Only women have a cervix?"
Starmer: It is something that shouldn't be said. It is not right.
Starmer's respectful debate rules out women's right to name our biological, embodied reality. And he wonders why we're angry. #Marr #LabourConference2021
Starmer: It is something that shouldn't be said. It is not right.
Starmer's respectful debate rules out women's right to name our biological, embodied reality. And he wonders why we're angry. #Marr #LabourConference2021
Starmer: "I am very concerned that this debate is conducted in a proper way in which proper views are expressed." What are those proper views? Do they include rational, evidence-based arguments about where and why sex matters? #marr #LabourConference2021
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If we can't say that only women have cervixes, what else is ruled out of Starmer's 'mature debate'? Can we name lesbians as same-sex attracted? Or is that included in what "shouldn't be said"? #marr #LabourConference2021
What else is ruled out of Starmer's 'proper' debate? Can we name lesbians as same-sex attracted? Can we argue that rapists who identify as women should not be in women's prisons? Can we ask that the same-sex exceptions in the Equality Act be applied? Or is that also proscribed?
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