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Angela Rayner won't apologise for calling WPUK and LGB Alliance hate groups

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IwantToRetire · 28/06/2024 20:33

Its only a short part at the start of this section - but as so many threads have now shown, Labour clearly doesn't not have an agreed position on supporting women's sex based rights.

https://www.channel4.com/news/angela-rayner-says-she-wont-be-cowed-by-jk-rowling-when-it-comes-to-her-views-on-gender-reforms

Angela Rayner says she won’t be cowed by JK Rowling when it comes to her views on gender reforms

Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner has told this programme she won't be cowed by JK Rowling when it comes to her views on gender reforms. The Harry Potter author - who lives in Edinburgh - has accused Labour of abandoning women who want single-sex sp...

https://www.channel4.com/news/angela-rayner-says-she-wont-be-cowed-by-jk-rowling-when-it-comes-to-her-views-on-gender-reforms

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IwantToRetire · 30/06/2024 00:23

Floisme · 29/06/2024 10:22

All she had to say was, 'I regret saying that'.

I'm sure West Streeting would be available for coaching.

Or if that's too unpalatable, maybe Tony Blair could be prevailed upon to make another of his statesmanlike announcements, and then she could get round it by saying, 'I agree with Tony Blair'.

(Edited for typos)

Edited

Agreed - that gets to the heart of why I started the thread.

We are faced with the prospect of the most senior female MP in what is likely to be the Party in Government, saying that both WPUK and LGB Alliance are "hate groups".

That is almost more significant that the wibble wabble over what single sex means and when it applies.

She said and has not retracted, that groups campaigning for women's sex based rights and for same sex attraction are HATE groups.

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Shortshriftandlethal · 29/06/2024 15:17

DracoDormiensNumquamTittilandum · 29/06/2024 05:39

Even if it were true that trans women who have transitioned are women, what about trans women who haven't? What about trans women who are fully intact unaltered men who call themselves women? Angela knows these people exist; she knows most trans women are this type of person. She's a disingenuous liar.

To be a liar you have to have thought through what you're talking about in the first place. She clearly hasn't. She's just swallowed 'articles of faith' and ideological dogma whole.

And to be able to think things through you have to have clear definitions of words. If you cannot define a woman then any follwing premise you proffer about women makes absolutely no sense at all.

The answer to " What is a woman" is not : "There are biological women and there are trans women"

HoneyButterPopcorn · 29/06/2024 14:44

CassieMaddox · 28/06/2024 23:31

She makes it clear she means biological women

Then she says ‘trans women’ too. She can’t help herself.

UltraLineHolder · 29/06/2024 13:37

x.com/cforwomenuk/status/1806954337475662023?s=48&t=PMOpAXvQcwgwlrHv64UWAA

Conservatives for Women wrote this today which I agree with:

"We think deals have been done between @UKLabour and the usually very loud TQ lobby groups. Usually they would be shouting from the rooftops about even the very weak support Starmer has shown towards women’s rights. What have they been promised in return for keeping quiet? #GE2024 "

They parrot the same nonsense over and over again, never answering questions and all being as slippery as eels.

Iain Anderson, formerly of Stonewall, as Chair of Trustees. is working with Labour on policy development. This is why Stonewall haven't been screaming and shouting.

DracoDormiensNumquamTittilandum · 29/06/2024 13:21

ArabellaScott · 29/06/2024 12:28

What do you think 'transitioning' entails?

Very, very few 'transwomen' have had their penises removed. Estimates are around 80-90% of men retain their penis.

Read my post again. I'm very well aware of that.

ArabellaScott · 29/06/2024 12:28

DracoDormiensNumquamTittilandum · 29/06/2024 05:39

Even if it were true that trans women who have transitioned are women, what about trans women who haven't? What about trans women who are fully intact unaltered men who call themselves women? Angela knows these people exist; she knows most trans women are this type of person. She's a disingenuous liar.

What do you think 'transitioning' entails?

Very, very few 'transwomen' have had their penises removed. Estimates are around 80-90% of men retain their penis.

Floisme · 29/06/2024 10:22

All she had to say was, 'I regret saying that'.

I'm sure West Streeting would be available for coaching.

Or if that's too unpalatable, maybe Tony Blair could be prevailed upon to make another of his statesmanlike announcements, and then she could get round it by saying, 'I agree with Tony Blair'.

(Edited for typos)

Imnobody4 · 29/06/2024 10:13

She's just doing a 'calm down dear' routine. Vulnerable women whose fears are being stoked by cruel feminists. Hate group is a slur and she should apologise. I have zero respect for her.

WickedSerious · 29/06/2024 10:10

She doesn't know her arse from a hole in the road.

The same goes for anyone else who thinks 'some women' have become women by 'transitioning'.

GargoylesofBeelzebub · 29/06/2024 09:58

Christinapple · 28/06/2024 22:10

JK Rowling telling other women what to do and what to say? How feminist /s

Oh dear God the lack of self awareness from the TWAW pronoun police.

DracoDormiensNumquamTittilandum · 29/06/2024 05:39

ArabellaScott · 28/06/2024 23:43

"We have biological women, and we have trans women. And they’re both women: one is a biological woman through sex, and one is a trans woman who has transitioned. Most of the public can get that.”

Rayner, April 2024.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2024/mar/23/angela-rayner-roots-rough-edges-ready-for-power

Even if it were true that trans women who have transitioned are women, what about trans women who haven't? What about trans women who are fully intact unaltered men who call themselves women? Angela knows these people exist; she knows most trans women are this type of person. She's a disingenuous liar.

Datun · 29/06/2024 04:52

If their tactic is to constantly deflect from the questions, they're soo going to come unstuck.

It doesn't work.

It's the quickest way to look bad. And even the rookiest of rookie journalists can spot it a mile off.

miri1985 · 29/06/2024 03:49

I think with Rayner the question needs to be put about workers rights . Her big thing is workers rights, what protections will women have when changing when getting a GRC is made significantly easier and does she support the NHS nurses who are suing? What about prison guards or police, should they be able to opt out of searching people not of their biological sex even if they have a GRC?

mellongoose · 29/06/2024 03:01

UtopiaPlanitia · 29/06/2024 01:12

Yup, Rayner didn't answer the question(s) re WPUK etc being hate groups AND she tried to splice the word 'biological' into her answer so often without really saying anything of substance that she ended up tripping over her words.

I noticed Kier had the same problem when talking to Jane on BBC 5 Live earlier today; he kept tripping over the word 'biological' and ended up saying 'biological spaces' 😏

I also heard that. He was clearly desperate to keep to his carefully curated lines rather than speaking from the heart.

UtopiaPlanitia · 29/06/2024 01:12

Yup, Rayner didn't answer the question(s) re WPUK etc being hate groups AND she tried to splice the word 'biological' into her answer so often without really saying anything of substance that she ended up tripping over her words.

I noticed Kier had the same problem when talking to Jane on BBC 5 Live earlier today; he kept tripping over the word 'biological' and ended up saying 'biological spaces' 😏

IwantToRetire · 29/06/2024 00:49

She hasn't apologised

Women's sex based rights are NOT hate

Same sex attraction is NOT hate

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IwantToRetire · 29/06/2024 00:47

I see the usual suspects are skimming over the core fact, which is the point of the thread. As the title clearly states.

The interview starts with a very explicit question about will she apologise to WPUK and LGB Alliance.

2 / 3 times she refuses to answer and then does the bland safe spaces routine.

ie Labour is again saying we can decide which are the right opinions about women's sex based rights and which aren't.

So it is just another slimmy underhand response by a senior Labour Party member.

She is pathetic. How can anyone take someone who is so clunkily devious seriously.

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illinivich · 28/06/2024 23:50

WinterTrees · 28/06/2024 23:12

Angela Rayner says that 'vulnerable women are very scared by some of the language that is being used.'

Bollocks to that. I'm scared by the reality of men being able to access spaces provided for women for reasons of safety and dignity, and not being able to challenge that.

She means that speaking about it has caused women to be scarred.

Not the actual intention of letting men into womens spaces, without any discussion or safeguarding, but talking about it.

zibzibara · 28/06/2024 23:42

CassieMaddox · 28/06/2024 23:31

She makes it clear she means biological women

She's a true believer in the sexist ideology of men women and she's a politician so really it is not clear at all.

Flittingaboutagain · 28/06/2024 23:39

I'm not scared of language, I'm scared of men, however they identify, coming into my space. I thanks the Janes and the Joannes for speaking up.

teawamutu · 28/06/2024 23:35

CassieMaddox · 28/06/2024 23:31

She makes it clear she means biological women

I don't believe her. Because she's also said that tw rights are women's rights.

She's either hopelessly captured (and let's not forget the offer to save Lily Madigan a place on the HoC benches despite the little twat showing not one scintilla of talent or intelligence), thick as mince, or both.

She shouldn't be anywhere near power.

CassieMaddox · 28/06/2024 23:31

BackToLurk · 28/06/2024 23:18

By ‘vulnerable women’ she probably means men

She makes it clear she means biological women

LakeTiticaca · 28/06/2024 23:25

Keep digging Ange........

zibzibara · 28/06/2024 23:20

"And I want to say to the transgender community, who some of them are vulnerable and scared as well, that the Labour Party will support and protect you."

Sounds lovely on the face of it but this is just a euphemism for letting males use any female space they want.