Labour chat forum: “TERF arguments are the same as transphobia”

It probably should be made clear this is the Labour Party subreddit and not an official Labour Party statement.

I'm sure plenty of people in the Labour Party agree with much of it but it is unofficial and we don't know who controls that subreddit.

Reddit is it's own eco system of misogyny and best off ignored.

I don’t use reddit so don’t get who this ‘Terrible Pastry’ writer is. I see they say “Starmer Bad” as part of their identity. So presumably this isn’t an official Labour account? Or is it?

"A transgender woman threatened to stab a 10-year-old girl’s mother during a terrifying sexual assault in the female toilets of a Morrison’s supermarket.

Katie Dolatowski, 18, admitted grabbing the youngster by her face and forcing her into the cubicle before demanding she take her trousers off at the store in Fife, Scotland, on 4 March.

She carried out a similar attack just weeks earlier, on 8 February, when another young girl using the toilet at an Asda store in Halbeath spotted Dolatowski using a mobile phone to spy on her over the partition wall."

Obviously a man who says he is now a woman and trans women are women should be allowed to do exactly what they want. Seriously who will protect women who are women from men who want to be or say they are women and want access to women's safe spaces?

Not the Labour party that's for sure.

The Labour Party:

"We consider TERF arguments to be equal to transphobia in all regards - this includes all of the usual arguments on bathrooms, women’s shelters, childhood transition, etc.
We will not be accepting transphobia under the guise of debate. We know what you are trying to do."

No debate!

No discussion on safe spaces or shelters or transition etc etc.

"There have been no documented cases of men pretending to be a trans woman to access women’s toilets for nefarious purposes"

Except there have. Here's one off the top of my head, I'm sure others can be found. metro.co.uk/2019/03/16/transgender-woman-18-sexually-assaulted-girl-10-morrisons-toilet-8914577/