Gender nonsense will be the Tories secret weapon

I was a Labour voter and party member through and through, but the misogyny of statements from senior leaders in the party has opened my eyes to the misogyny endemic within it:

"The phrase 'only women have a cervix' is is something that shouldn't be said. It is not right." Keir Starmer.

"I think transwomen are women and they should be accommodated in the prison of their choosing." Lisa Nandy's response when asked if a male child rapist (Christopher Worton) should be housed in a woman's prison because he now identifies as a women.

"...dinosaurs who want to hoard rights." David Lammy on women who believe males should not be allowed access women's single-sex spaces.

Here's a full thread of more egregious examples:

twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1442783035389325313

Do we really want someone who says "A child is born without a sex", as Dawn Butler said, or "It is factually incorrect to say that only women have cervixes", as Emily Thornberry said, make any important decisions about anything? I wouldn't want either of those as Minister for Health or Minister for Equalities.

This isn’t about not liking trans people LOL it’s about the erasure and erosion of women’s rights eg keeping prisons single sex to prevent vulnerable women being raped, keeping single sex spaces where women are vulnerable (toilets, changing rooms, refuges, rape crisis support groups) free of men, it’s about the transing of vulnerable children and teens and life changing medications and surgery that lead to sterilisation, irreversible changes to their body, health problems and a horrifying regret among many other issues all of which primarily and most seriously impact on women and children.

So just jog on with that idea @CorrBlimeyGG

I agree that this issue overall is really bad for the LP - not just because of the direct badness but also because people thinks it shows them as gullible and stupid, and also that they have a profound lack of respect for the public overall, women, etc. All these things just affect people's view of them as competent and working for the people.

But I am not sure that will translate directly to what people are upset about with the Tories at this moment, which seems to be another example of a party thumbing their nose at voters.

Their best approach might be new leadership before the election but then of course the question is, who?

CorBlimeyGG, if self ID goes through, there will be no women's rights.

By definition, if any man can say he's a woman, there's no women's rights, there's just people's rights. Which usually means rights which benefit men, if they don't benefit men then they're not seen as people's rights.

You know women's rights is far bigger than you not liking trans people don't you? What is Liz Truss' voting record on employment rights, benefit cuts, cuts to public services and healthcare? They all affect women far more than any trans woman will.