Straight Man elected as Labour LGBT Officer 😂

You lot make me laugh 😂

Genuine question, if this 'straight white man' likes dressing up in rubber and a dog mask of a weekend, does that make him 'queer' and therefore eligible for the post?

Or maybe he has a foot fetish, or likes his wife to spank him occasionally, or eats fried eggs of her belly.

I expect we'd rather he kept the details to himself really....

Is there actually a rule which says this position has to go to a member of that community? I can imagine there could be circumstances where there might not be such a person to fill that role and they would still want someone in the position. It's a little different I thought than the woman's officer position which explicitly was about getting more women into government.

But I'm not in the UK so I could easily have the wrong end of the stick.

I would be very doubtful of this guy anyway. Complaining that he lost to someone white is pretty shocking and says something about his mindset. And I wonder how shit he has to be to have lost his position to a straight guy anyway, the fact is if you are incompetent or a jerk, no one owes you a job.

Does anyone know anything about him other than this?

"[T]here are publicly and privately expressed concerns that one of the new self-identifying officers has not been sincere about their identification."

We need the self identifying police. Whoooop whoooop!

Labour has been loosing the plot for ages, they have totally lost it this time, and their LBGTQ+-£$?????? movement have tied themselves in knots which even a dedicated fisherman would not be able to unpick.

This is absolute gold lololololololol!!!

Genuine question, if this 'straight white man' likes dressing up in rubber and a dog mask of a weekend, does that make him 'queer' and therefore eligible for the post?

Cooee Owen! We need you!😂

Or self Id as a woman so they can get put into a women’s prison.

Surely the man who was elected can just self-identify as non-binary as that covers all bases and after all biological males can self identify as lesbians, so what's Rohit's problem?

One must be allowed to be ones true self and no-one must deny or question this.

This is such delicious irony and the outrage is hilarious.

T]here are publicly and privately expressed concerns that one of the new self-identifying officers has not been sincere about their identification."

Oh how very dare they suggest such a thing! That would never, ever, ever happen and we women have not got any evidence what’s so ever that a man would Self ID as a woman, just so they can take part in women’s sports, or get into female toilets and take photos of school girls. None what so ever!

Also: where's Owen?

Cooee! Owen! We need you!

My point about being out was that I thought that dead naming and all that was a massive no-no, so how can a stealth transperson put themselves up for this position if this situation occurs where assumptions are made about a candidate /winner?

That's what I thought you meant!

At some point, these twits are going to self-combust if they continue to carry these levels of cognitive dissonance.

Sorry I'm late, I've been alternately pissing myself and exploding with rage at the utter hypocrisy of Labour on this.

It seems this is a question of self-identification
www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/education/west-ham-labour-rift-1-6131987
"In her resignation statement, Ms Grahl states: "[T]here are publicly and privately expressed concerns that one of the new self-identifying officers has not been sincere about their identification."

End of discussion.

Is the photo of LM real?
I assumed the cigar was photoshopped
It's real, apperently taken at a 'Cuban solidarity' festival, where they were handing out cuban cigars.

This is NOT about picking scores of the left and the right. Stonewall has truly done a job on the Conservatives as well.

The right has long left the table.

The left is truly eating itself.

I am genuinely torn between enjoying this moment immensely and feeling furious at the double fucking standard.

Is the photo of LM real?
I assumed the cigar was photoshopped

And the jacket? Was that photshopped as well?

It's a deliberate action. They know what they are doing.

I've just been reading a community discussion elsewhere about a tv programme. A commenter has described herself as a "married, hetero, assexual-by-choice woman" who is "dictionary queer," as opposed to "socially queer." Naturally she is opining on LGBTQ+ representation in the programme from the perspective of being an "insider" rather than a het woman. No-one else on the board seems to find this odd.

As I was saying above, LGBTQ+ now seems to be anyone who feels a little bit alternative lifestyle-ish.

My point about being out was that I thought that dead naming and all that was a massive no-no, so how can a stealth transperson put themselves up for this position if this situation occurs where assumptions are made about a candidate /winner?