Starmer backs banning tw from women's sport 🤔

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Or the "women and girls" who used to have penises.

But without grassroots sports there will be no elite women’s sports

all he has to say that women’s and girls sports are for women and girls only. Not the women and girls with the penises

Bepenised 😂😂😂😂

They need to stop limiting it to 'elite sport', women will never get to the 'elite' stage if at grassroots they are beaten into any team by boys.

So, he is up for supporting sporting organisations making the decisions. So not instructing them to protect female sports, just will do nothing to stop them setting up their policies.

Not really confident there. And again, this is one potential leader? not a labour manifesto decision?

Bloody hell, are any of these men ever capable growing an actual spine?

Spines are like penises: you're either born with one, or you're not.

Hmmm... I think both pics apply.

Another of the yeah but it's Starmer, he'll change his mind again next week.

I've lost all belief I him. I no longer believe anything Starmer says he agrees with or is going to do.

He just talks weasely shite

I think the important thing is that the sports governing bodies take a lead on this. And they are doing that, and we’re supportive of what they’re doing, particularly in elite sport.

Bloody hell, are any of these men ever capable growing an actual spine? Do they imagine that people can't see them piggybacking on the back of someone else's spine?

I don't give a flying fuck what Starmer is 'supportive' of or not, if he doesn't realise that if he ends up running in the country he's the bloody person in charge.

His decisions! Own it maate.

'Oh, every federation in the country has decided to let men compete as women. I'm not supportive of that, but whatevah'.

Plus vacillation and prevarication will win him nothing. Even 'supporting' no transwomen in women's sports is admitting that transwomen are absolutely not women.

He's saying that 100% of women in sport don't have a penis.

What you basing that on then, Starmer?? 😁

Don't believe a word of it. Starmer twists with the wind. He thought that saying "99% of women don't have penises" was somehow a thing worth saying.

Couldn't lie straight in bed.

tbh, I wonder if the TwiXers were responding to the headline and not the content of the article which certainly doesn't mirror it.

Sorry, but this man will say anything to get elected!

Some responses to the change.

Martina Navratilova
Sir Keir Starmer backs ban on transgender athletes in female competition- well about time…

Sharron Davies MBE@sharrond62
Well I never..

LabourWomen’sDeclaration  @LabWomenDec
“The important thing is that sports governing bodies take a lead. They are doing that & we’re supportive... particularly in elite sport.. common sense has to prevail in terms of safety & integrity of sport.”
YES @Keir_Starmer - but NOT JUST in elite sport!

It is a step forward and don't forget this puts pressure on Lib Dems, SNP and others who either back the ending of women's sports or refuse to make a statement on the matter. With an election coming up voters should know which parties back sports for women clearly and unambiguously.

It also puts pressure on the anti women's sports faction within Labour such as Dawn Bowen, the Minister of Sport for Wales who backed Emily Bridges.

Obviously we need more details and maybe the answer to the question why did it take so long.

Well, elite sport is what makes the headlines, isn't? Foregrounding that is an easy win for Starmer. Never mind about your daughter's after-school activities.

Joining the cynical bench - it's tediously drawn out all this isn't it?
BUT - if he's saying that “common sense has to prevail in terms of safety and integrity of sport”, he's going to have to explain why the same doesn't apply to grassroots sport (where all our elite sportswomen come from) female changing rooms & showers, prison cells, hospital wards, toilets in schools and all the rest.

Can't wait to hear him explain the difference 🙄

I think the important thing is that the sports governing bodies take a lead on this. And they are doing that, and we’re supportive of what they’re doing, particularly in elite sport.

Pathetic. Forcing females to compete against and alongside males is illegal sex discrimination, and the law needs to say so. He's a lawyer. He knows.

He need to come out and say if he has a trans child as it’s an obvious conflict of interest if he does; he shouldn’t involve himself in anything trans-related if he becomes PM.

I don't trust him on this, I wish he would state it much more clearly, female sport should be for females only and we would make sure that was clear in the law.

Hmm. What he actually said doesn't seem quite as unequivocal as the Telegraph headline suggests. But keep going, Sir Keir, I'm listening,

More flip flops than Blackpool Beach during a summer heat wave that bloke.

ETA:

Remember Paul Whitehouse in that sketch show where he was the bloke in the pub trying to agree with everyone?

That's Keir that is...

It's just more waffle from him - it's not unequivocal. I don't trust that he won't u turn again next week/tomorrow. He's a complete weasel.

Just more word salad from him. Doesn't mean a thing, he can't be trusted an inch.

what he seems to be saying is that he wouldn't try to intervene on behalf of TW/wouldn't try to mandate the inclusion of TW in female sport in cases where a body had already ruled against it.

but I also strongly read his comment as saying that he wouldn't be doing anything to proactively push refusenik sporting bodies to sort themselves out.

in other words a strong, resounding, 'not me, guv.'