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Starmer: "trans-inclusive" conversion therapy ban, "modernise" the GRA, all hate crime to be aggravated offences as part of making every child "proud and confident"

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ResisterRex · 30/01/2024 10:26

Exclusive in Diva, following a reception at a LGBT+ Labour event in Parliament on 29 Jan:

https://diva-magazine.com/2024/01/29/exclusive-keir-starmer-lgbtqia-rights/

"“We’ll strengthen the law, so every category of hate crime is treated as an aggravated offence,” Starmer said. “We’ll cut NHS waiting lists for LGBT+ people waiting for urgent physical and mental health care. We’ll modernise the Gender Recognition Act. We’ll implement a full, trans-inclusive, ban on all forms of conversion therapy. We fully support the view that conversion therapy is psychologically damaging abuse.”

“We are committed to a decade of national renewal and will work with all the organisations in this room tonight so every child can feel proud and confident in who they are, to stand up for LGBT+ rights at home and abroad and to get Britain’s future back.”

The mention of children is unclear but must have a background to the full speech? LGBT Labour hasn't tweeted about it but others have. Rayner and Dodds also in attendance.

https://x.com/djrm94/status/1752057964767101041?s=46&t=WHoOZ_3Kv5G6-FyQuvE0LQ

https://x.com/stevenatkins/status/1752256944843162016?s=46&t=WHoOZZ_3Kv5G6-FyQuvE0LQ

x.com/anuox/status/1752094930074325420?s=46&t=WHoOZ_3Kv5G6-FyQuvE0LQ

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Winnading · 03/02/2024 14:05

AdamRyan · 03/02/2024 12:51

Honestly you lot make me laugh. Its like trying to talk to a 5 year old. "Why? Why? But what does it mean? Why? I don't agree because my friend Ella told me there definitely is one of those. Why?"

Read the context of the question I was answering and consider it like a grown up, rather than knee jerking "you think women should be cervix havers! Why? Why?"

Sooooo hows that insulting us into voting labour going for you?

Your time might be better spent insulting the labour party into defining a woman in a way we are all happy to vote for them.

Put really simply as you seem unable to understand (I'm being kind here, we all know you dont want to understand)
Labour just have to define "woman" the same way we do, be certain that men of any identity do not get to join in that "woman" definition and we will all be happy.

I cant make this any simpler.

nothingcomestonothing · 03/02/2024 13:52

AdamRyan · 03/02/2024 12:48

OK, well I take it if I wrote the same thing using the words "woman" and "man" you wouldn't jump me with "but what does that meeeeaaan if you can't define woman?"
😴
Bear in mind I was specifically responding to a poster claiming you have to have words for the policy to make sense. I think the policies will protect women regardless of what definition people use. Implementation of a policy to convict rapists will protect women regardless of if they are called snurgles, if the definition of woman includes males or anything else.

So your point is essentially trickle down economics, repurposed for sex and gender? 'Doesn't matter if the Labour party say men can be women, their policies for women-meaning-women-and-some-men will still end up benefitting women so don't worry about the terminology'?

No Thank You.

EasternStandard · 03/02/2024 13:44

Ereshkigalangcleg · 03/02/2024 13:35

Anyway. God forbid one points out people's illogical position. It makes them feel "stupid" and then it's not their fault if they cause untold damage by voting how they like, like a petulant toddler.

Toddlers can't vote.

I admit I skimmed the post but this stuff is bonkers

An attempt to insult but wrong

Ereshkigalangcleg · 03/02/2024 13:35

Anyway. God forbid one points out people's illogical position. It makes them feel "stupid" and then it's not their fault if they cause untold damage by voting how they like, like a petulant toddler.

Toddlers can't vote.

EasternStandard · 03/02/2024 13:21

AdamRyan · 03/02/2024 13:18

I understand why it matters, I'm baffled as to why it matters SO MUCH people will vote for the party that got us into this situation and has no policies to get us out, because "they know what a woman is".

Anyway. God forbid one points out people's illogical position. It makes them feel "stupid" and then it's not their fault if they cause untold damage by voting how they like, like a petulant toddler.

Vote Conservative! That'll show Labour and who cares about all the women who are raped, murdered and in poverty that we could have avoided! It's Labour's fault, not the Tories. We know what we are voting for and fuck those women. They lost, get over it!

Honestly. The world is going to hell in a handbasket due to a complete unwillingness for people to do anything other than have exactly what they want.

because "they know what a woman is".

This is Labour aligned gender phrasing

I’d never frame women’s sex based rights in such a dismissive way.

You’re baffled because you think the phrase covers the issue

WaterHound · 03/02/2024 13:20

Once again - why do you assume that non Labour voters will automatically vote Conservative? Why do you refuse to listen when Left leaning women tell you this over and over?

AdamRyan · 03/02/2024 13:18

EasternStandard · 03/02/2024 13:09

No you wouldn’t stop me posting, but all the Labour links aren’t doing much either.

If you do want to understand why it matters to women read what they write on here. There’s enough there.

You don’t need to be ‘baffled’

I understand why it matters, I'm baffled as to why it matters SO MUCH people will vote for the party that got us into this situation and has no policies to get us out, because "they know what a woman is".

Anyway. God forbid one points out people's illogical position. It makes them feel "stupid" and then it's not their fault if they cause untold damage by voting how they like, like a petulant toddler.

Vote Conservative! That'll show Labour and who cares about all the women who are raped, murdered and in poverty that we could have avoided! It's Labour's fault, not the Tories. We know what we are voting for and fuck those women. They lost, get over it!

Honestly. The world is going to hell in a handbasket due to a complete unwillingness for people to do anything other than have exactly what they want.

ResisterRex · 03/02/2024 13:14

Reducing us to body parts, saying we are like 5yos.

Way to win an argument Confused

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LWSnow · 03/02/2024 13:12

@AdamRyan insulting the electorate always works.
just shows what you think of women standing up for their rights to name themselves.

Hepwo · 03/02/2024 13:12

Blimey.

Labour's finest at it again today.

lifeturnsonadime · 03/02/2024 13:10

AdamRyan · 03/02/2024 13:06

Plus....Starmer says a woman is an adult female.
It's just so much hot air from the Tories to claim they are "the only party who knows what a woman is"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/07/26/keir-starmer-woman-is-adult-female-labour-hardens-stance/#:~:text=A%20woman%20is%20%E2%80%9Can%20adult,Party's%20hardened%20stance%20on%20gender.

and round we go, some males have female on their birth certificate and passports.

Has Starmer confirmed that these males are excluded from that definition?

EasternStandard · 03/02/2024 13:09

AdamRyan · 03/02/2024 13:07

Right back at you. There's a fair few posters around saying why it matters to them that the Conservatives will damage women, doesn't stop you posting now does it?

No you wouldn’t stop me posting, but all the Labour links aren’t doing much either.

If you do want to understand why it matters to women read what they write on here. There’s enough there.

You don’t need to be ‘baffled’

AdamRyan · 03/02/2024 13:07

EasternStandard · 03/02/2024 13:06

Thanks for letting us know

Do you read to understand or just post to campaign

Because there are a fair few posters saying why it matters to them on FWR

Right back at you. There's a fair few posters around saying why it matters to them that the Conservatives will damage women, doesn't stop you posting now does it?

EasternStandard · 03/02/2024 13:06

AdamRyan · 03/02/2024 13:04

Exactly! So why is it people's number one voting issue? It genuinely baffles me!

Thanks for letting us know

Do you read to understand or just post to campaign

Because there are a fair few posters saying why it matters to them on FWR

AdamRyan · 03/02/2024 13:04

Theinnocenteyeballsinthesky · 03/02/2024 13:00

plus it’s not exactly the work of quantum physics to define ‘woman’ is it? it’s the definition it’s always been “adult human female”

Exactly! So why is it people's number one voting issue? It genuinely baffles me!

AdamRyan · 03/02/2024 13:03

lifeturnsonadime · 03/02/2024 12:59

OK, well I take it if I wrote the same thing using the words "woman" and "man" you wouldn't jump me with "but what does that meeeeaaan if you can't define woman?"
😴

Well yes, that's what we are asking your beloved Labour Party to fix.

We don't want anyone to have to reduce women to body parts.

I know.
My point is personally I take a party with policies that will protect women, more seriously than a party that state the obvious and then use biological reality to shaft us.

Theinnocenteyeballsinthesky · 03/02/2024 13:00

plus it’s not exactly the work of quantum physics to define ‘woman’ is it? it’s the definition it’s always been “adult human female”

AdamRyan · 03/02/2024 13:00

EasternStandard · 03/02/2024 12:55

Who said biology was offensive?

Using body parts instead of the simple word woman is though

Go and read the post I was replying to, and my reply in that context. I was demonstrating that a definition of the word "woman" is not a necessary precondition for a policy to protect women as defined by biological sex.

I would not use the term "cervix havers" , "pregnant people" or "people with a penis" in real life. I would use man or woman. I was doing it to make a point. However instead it just set the 5 year old in you all off. "Don't call me a person with a vagina! It's offensive!"

  1. I'm not calling anyone a person with a vagina
  2. having a vagina is not in itself offensive, unless you hate women. Women have vaginas. We aren't barbies.
lifeturnsonadime · 03/02/2024 12:59

OK, well I take it if I wrote the same thing using the words "woman" and "man" you wouldn't jump me with "but what does that meeeeaaan if you can't define woman?"
😴

Well yes, that's what we are asking your beloved Labour Party to fix.

We don't want anyone to have to reduce women to body parts.

Theinnocenteyeballsinthesky · 03/02/2024 12:59

DialSquare · 03/02/2024 12:57

Implementation of a policy to convict rapists will protect women regardless of if they are called snurgles, if the definition of woman includes males or anything else.

Not if the rapist is housed in a women's prison.

Quite!! Plus the risk assessment carried out is only about the possible risk to the man rather than to the women.

you can’t write a policy about anything if you can’t first define very clearly who or what that policy is about

DialSquare · 03/02/2024 12:57

Implementation of a policy to convict rapists will protect women regardless of if they are called snurgles, if the definition of woman includes males or anything else.

Not if the rapist is housed in a women's prison.

EasternStandard · 03/02/2024 12:55

AdamRyan · 03/02/2024 12:54

Oh well, never mind. There is nothing offensive about biology in my opinion.

Who said biology was offensive?

Using body parts instead of the simple word woman is though

AdamRyan · 03/02/2024 12:54

EasternStandard · 03/02/2024 12:53

I don’t really care why you say it.

I know I find it offensive though

Oh well, never mind. There is nothing offensive about biology in my opinion.

AdamRyan · 03/02/2024 12:53

Does anyone have any commentary to make as to what policies the Conservatives are planning to implement that will protect women?