Minister for Equalities invites Mridul Wadhwa to meeting to discuss LGBT+ hate crime

Its not possible that they dont know of the controversy around Wadhwa. It makes his inclusion a statement.

They seem him as the victim.

I have approved of quite a lot of what Labour has tried to achieve but then they go ahead and do this and I have to conclude that many are idiots. Mean idiots. We can guess what’s going to be in the amendments. More jail time for women who point out that men wearing dresses are not women.

It reminds me a bit of that time Starmer's people tweeted pictures of him in Blackpool meeting "the LGBT community", which turned out to be several gay blokes and a drag queen. Guess which part of the acronym wasn't in the picture.

Half of the Parliamentary Labour Party is female, but it seems like there are shitloads of Labour MPs (even some female ones!) who literally don't see women.

Mind you, they knew who Mandelson was and what he did, but thought it fine to make him US Ambassador. So their track record doesn’t provide assurance. Of course they’re not going to meet boring old women who continue to insist women as a sex class matter. That’s not daring or progressive or edgy the way Labour want to be seen. But ultimately they are all so transactional as a party.

Ffs.

The comments suffer no fools

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As soon as I read the title I thought - oh for fuck's sake!

Hatred of women trumps all the LGBT+s added together - the stats and anecdotes on violence, assaults, sexual assaults, rapes, murders, DV and so on bear that out.

Mridual doesn't care about that though - he only cares about the men.

I should have added though that of course there is a lot more simmering hatred of lesbians than of gay men. Misogyny at work as ever.

I think the same. Of course there will always be some hate (as indeed there will always be some misogyny / racism snobbery / ageism etc etc).
I think the T and Q (and I still don't know why the Q need any special treatment just for liking spicy sex and odd outfits - I mean, talk about 1st world privilege) are tagging on to the LGB to pretend 'trans' is a civil /human rights issue. It works too, as we know.

LGB people continue to get abused and in some cases assaulted or killed, although it's probably rarer than it once was. A gay man where I work was driven out of his home by constant homophobic abuse from his neighbours, including criminal damage.

Although not a national crisis, I don't think having the main insult used by boys linked to a sexual orientation is a great state of affairs. Can't be great if you're a gay kid growing up.

In the workplace... a few years ago I had a boss who was gay, and he was also gay, and if you hadn't noticed his Pride lanyard he was more than happy to talk about what a huge fan of Madonna he was. But for anyone under about 50, it seems to be a complete non-issue, apart from young straight women heading down to Brighton for Pride. I know there must be homophobic incidents in some workplaces, just by the law of averages, but I don't think I've seen any in the wild for decades.

I don't think boys at school saying "your trainers are gay" is a national crisis either, though we do live in a country where the Prime Minister thinks we can solve misogyny by forcing kids to watch Adolescence.

Labour for the men not for you

Labour continue to demonstrate the utter contempt they have for women

The. Labour slogan should be "we are here for he/him"

From James Dreyfus on X.
Yo, Liv…

You forgot to ask anyone from @LesbianLabour
@HumanGayMale @MensNetwork1 @AllianceLGB @project_lesbian @LesbianPersist or any other groups that actually represent LGB people.

You shouldn’t be that pleased with yourself, tbh…

https://x.com/i/status/2032426541028687915

Labour have become ridiculous as well as incompetent

Labour continue to demonstrate the utter contempt they have for women (like pretty much every political party) I find it impossible to believe that they don't know who Wadhwa is or what he did but they think it's fine to invite him to a select round table

meanwhile they still can't be fucking arsed to meet FWS

Is LGB hate still a big problem? I know gay is back as the number one boys insult at schools again. But in real life for adults, does anyone get worked up if you are gay? I haven’t come across it professionally or socially. I cant help but think it’s an issues for T people meeting and they are tagging the LGB on to make it more inclusive.

Appalling that he was given a seat at the table. But then, Bailey is Labour and presumably of the brains-fallen-out variety when it comes to trans?

Was he forced out, or given the chance to slink away? Those poor women who had to endure what many would classify as male emotional abuse, and misogynistic gaslighting, on top of their existing trauma.