Boris Johnson speaks again

Yup. I agree 100%.

Or that he agreed that in these specific circumstances - Bridges' registration not being in order - exclusion from the female category was technically correct? That would be very "on brand" for Keir Starmer.

What? This is absolutely coming from the left.

Who on the right do you see pushing this?

I am not a conspiracy theorist, but I am someone who thinks that assuming no conspiracy is almost as silly as believing all the conspiracies.

I think it would be incredibly naive to think that no-one on the right has surriptitiously pushed a TRA agenda in order to further divide the left.

And that is before we get onto the idea that TRA agenda (individual rights trump the rights of society, you can be what you want with no concern for others etc) are right wing ideas not left wing ones. The TRA agenda is more right wing than it is left. It very much suits the right that the left is "the identity left" and not an "economic left" fighting for greater equality.

The left is rotten with this sexism and always has been. I’ll go to my grave without ever voting Labour again. Boris may be awful but at least he will be gone one day. Labour will never get rid of this sexism. It’s who they are.

Yes, “female” has now fallen too. It seems to have happened quite recently, in the last couple of years.

No-one should be surprised that once “trans women are women” was established as normal that female would be next.

Politician is asked if women can be born with penises by journalists, journalists then claim said politician is stoking culture wars and not focusing on the important issues or using it as a distraction for whatever political scandal.

Stella Creasey has stated unequivocally that
"A transwoman is an adult human female".

The word female is not safe with the Labour Party.

Precisely, @FemmeNatal
Feminists fight for the right of all women to hold power. even those we disagree with and those who are not feminists.

Has Starmer met with the Labour Women's Declaration yet, you know like he promised?

And yeah, it's curious how Johnson only ever seems to bring this up when he's in the shit.

Re. Starmer I think he has to be pushed on this issue by using the word female not women. So female sports. Can he say that he thinks female sports should be protected. Saying womens sports allows for the trickery that using “women” does.
But he can’t say female as it does beg the follow up question of so you do think female sports should be protected but you don’t think female prisons should be? Or hospital wards? Or rape crisis centres? It’s very hard to then argue that safety, fairness in female sports ( as important as they are) are MORE important than safety and fairness in these others areas. And I think everyone knows this hence the pushback.

That’s a disappointing thing for Harriet Hartman to have said about female Tory PM’s. Like them or not they were women.

Meanwhile it seems that Spain is now to go for self identity in legislation. For children too. They don’t seem to have informed themselves on the problems that it will throw up.

Johnson is a liar and a political opportunist.

He's decided it's expedient to tell the truth on this. Only men have a penis.

Starmer is a liar and a political opportunist.

He's decided it's in his interest to continue to lie about this. He thinks it's the lie his party want him to tell.

It's politics. There is no purity. If you're looking for the side that never lies and always has the moral high ground that's when you'll be 'homeless' because you're naive.

For me this is one issue where the lie is so fundamental and in opposition to obvious reality, the fact Starmer is prepared to say it still floors me.

Good that he said something but it means nothing if he doesn't inact legislation to keep single sex spaces and do something about the harresment of women by the trans mafia. Deeds not words.

Plenty of women wrote to Starmer about this when he became Leader of the Opposition. I was one of them.

He chose not to listen and has thrown his hat in with the people who believe that women can have penises and that the definition of 'woman' rests on some nebulous feeling of inner femininity.

Starmer knows about this issue and he doesn't care.

Presumably they weren’t “womanly” enough to count as actual women ? “Womanly” being a bigger claim to “real womanhood” than being an actual woman these days.

Being small c conservative on some issues puts more of a question mark over your female status than having a penis according to some people I’ve disagreed with on SM. So a big C will deffo get you disqualified.

I’ll chuck a tenner on Kemi being the third, or fourth female Tory PM before Labour ever pick one as a leader on the basis that she’s the best bet they’ve got to win an election.

Starmer is utterly useless.

He spoke about "supporting women's sports" recently, in light of recent swimming announcements. This is an infuriatingly meaningless statement from him seeing as he supports self-ID, meaning "woman" = "anyone"

"I support anyone's sport" doesn't really cut it when there's a blatant clash of rights in sport.