Lammy… again!

‘THE’ exam paper. Bah...

Reminder that David Lammy was one of the key Labour politicians that pushed for the GRA 2004.

It's quite clear from today he must have had no real understanding back then of the demographic he was advocating for and perhaps literally thought they grew female reproductive organs.

I'm a bit worried about the impact on Ovarian Cancer awareness as well, which is already very low.

David Lammy: "it's probably the case that transwomen don't have ovaries".

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PROBABLY?!

It is absolutely all written on their cribsheets. They are like supply teachers who've been left a copy of the teacher's answer book.

Have you noticed they've stopped saying, "We have been very clear..."

I work in the health sector. So what would expert biologist David Lammy suggest if I wanted to raise awareness among women of the importance of getting their regular cervical smear tests?

We’ve already established that any comms messaging targeting ‘women’ alone has been deemed appropriate.

To allow for transmen, we can say ‘women and people with a cervix’ (I’m not especially bothered by that one, albeit not as snappy and harder to fit on a poster)

For those who want to get rid of the word women altogether, there is always ‘cervix-havers.’ (I can’t be bothered to go into why this one is so offensive both from a clear-English point of view and from a feminist point of view).

And now, to top it off, Lammy has suggested that even ‘cervix-havers’ includes male-bodied people, so we can’t even use that.

So what language do we use to make sure women get their smear tests so ultimately we can prevent them from fucking dying of cervical cancer?

Absolute disgrace.

I think the Shadow sports minister who made a tit of herself on Women's Hour this morning also used the term "obsession with identity politics" so I assume it was on their briefing cards for today.

It's no wonder he's in the TRA's pockets, he seems to enjoy oppression olympics as much as they do.

Who knew that black men must always be listened to on women's rights because their ancestors were once enslaved?

And the lies about suicide are just frankly disgraceful.

It’s weird. David Lammy harrumphing about “obsession with identity politics.”

Now I know how Nelson Mandela must have felt when Margaret Thatcher started calling for sanctions against Iraq.

In other news, 2 new kinds of dinosaur have been found. I'm just waiting with baited breath to see if they come under the rad fem species. So exciting!

David Lammy is pursuing the same tactic on twitter now.

The climate crisis. Energy shortages. Gaps in staffing. Children’s education. Mental health. Poverty. Economic growth.

These are the issues that the public and @UKLabour are focussed on today. It is journalists not us politicians who are obsessed with talking identity politics.

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Is there anyone here who can clarify how women, talking about the impact on women's rights, are classified as talking identity politics, but David Lammy isn't?

Over the course of this conference, he's done trans activism, black men being under-represented in the parliamentary labour party and measures to change that, his personal identifying as a feminist (he said that!) and how women can't talk to him about the erosion of their rights today, because of the historic injustices suffered by his ancestors. (50% of whom were women. Does he know?)

I think his ID-Pol score is much higher than that of women just saying, "er David, let's not put rapists in women's prisons". Right?

I think Lammy is one of those people that just tries to wind up as many people as possible and hates everyone.

I wonder if Lammy would be satisfied if a substantial number of bodies in the Commons id'd as black men. Job done. If Theresa May did, then there'd even have been a PM!

If he says he believes transubstantiation in one 'identity', he would be hypocritical not to say he believes and accepts the other.

"It's probably the case that trans women don't have ovaries..."

It's probably the case that David Lammy has a brain, somewhere.

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"It's probably the case that trans women don't have ovaries ... but a cervix, I understand, is something that you can have, following, er ... various procedures and hormone treatment and all the rest of it"

For some reason the serious way in which he delivered this expert biological explanation really tickled me

Oh, gosh. The interviews could be asking him (presuming here) about important issues. Not about women. Actually he dodges women and goes straight to 'what about trans'.

Hah? Imagine a current affairs programme raising this deplorable onslaught against women's safety, dignity and fairness when important topics could be discussed instead!

Oh dear. I can't believe it didn't even occur to him that some females born with cervixes grow up to identify as men.

Why on earth has the Labour Party not given all their politicians a line to use when this issue comes up. Its not difficult to find some way of getting them to say something whilst saying nothing dealing with this. It's like they really do believe its a niche issue, and the angry ladeez will go away. That they are so out of touch with the reality on the ground, is more worrying.