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Yvette Cooper: Labour wants Cass recommendations adopted, BUT...

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Abeona · 10/04/2024 09:51

Yvette Cooper admits that children and young people have been badly let down:
https://twitter.com/KayBurley/status/1777964876113059843

Apparently the reason why the Labour party ignored all the evidence submitted by GC people to MPs, enquiries and consultations is because it was part of a culture war. We seem to be to blame: all of us who submitted evidence of scientific studies that gender medicine was harmful, who offered evidence of how it was affecting our lives, who stood up and shouted when it would have been easier to stay silent — we'd just allowed ourselves to be drawn into a culture war and could therefore be ignored.

Labour needs to stop this line of defence. I'm glad they plan to accept all the findings of the Cass report and will support the government to implement change, but if they continue to identify all those of us who saw clearly what was happening as tools of a culture war they won't get my vote. If anyone from Labour HQ is reading this, you have absolutely no idea what thousands of us, mainly women, have been through in order to get us here, today. We've been insulted and abused, threatened with loss of career, bullied by friends and colleagues. We need to be acknowledged and not positioned as part of the problem. We weren't the problem, we were the main force behind the solution.

https://twitter.com/KayBurley/status/1777964876113059843

OP posts:
Runningupthecurtains · 10/04/2024 10:26

Ahh so they would have listened sooner if we'd not said anything?

So what exactly would they have been listening too?

MsFenellaFielding · 10/04/2024 10:24

I'm mid-fifties and have voted Labour all my life.

I don't trust Labour at all and this doesn't change how I feel.

kiwiane · 10/04/2024 10:22

Their actions and words now will help me to decide whether to remain in the Labour Party. I’m a feminist and don’t expect my valid gender critical opinions to be dismissed so lightly by the privileged women with power.

Rainbowshit · 10/04/2024 10:20

She can fuck right off to the far side of fuck

MrsOvertonsWindow · 10/04/2024 10:19

Labour - consistently disappointing. And - oh the irony - blaming the very whistleblowing women who they've repeatedly silenced 🙄

Fenlandia · 10/04/2024 10:18

Ah that old chestnut CuLtUrE WaRs. Do bore off Yvette, gender ideology has damaged women, kids and gay people while the Labour party cheered it on.

StephanieSuperpowers · 10/04/2024 10:10

Oh yeah, as glosswitch said, when it all comes down it's going to turn out that we were right for the wrong reasons (horrible bigotry) and they were wrong for the right reasons (lovely compassion).

jcakey · 10/04/2024 10:09

If right-wing media outlets/ parties jumped on this issue, the Left seriously needs to examine why.

If you're repeatedly silencing or bullying anyone who raises any concerns about this, you bear the responsibility for creating a culture war. Parents, gc feminists, lesbians and, most of all, children found themselves caught in the middle of this.

It's your job to represent responsibly - and you failed.

porridgecake · 10/04/2024 09:59

So disappointed in Yvette Cooper. I used to really rate her years ago.

BionicBadger · 10/04/2024 09:58

Hear hear!

DameMaud · 10/04/2024 09:57

👏yes!
Thanks OP

nauticant · 10/04/2024 09:56

Apparently the reason why the Labour party ignored all the evidence submitted by GC people to MPs, enquiries and consultations is because it was part of a culture war.

That's been predicted for a long time: "We couldn't listen to you when you were being so shrill and hysterical."