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The pasty sausage stew redolent of the ‘manel’ (the all-male panel) driving forward the Government’s progress for LGBT+ people

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IwantToRetire · 25/09/2026 17:36

Picture a trans activist. You probably imagine a teenage furry raging from his gaming chair, or a self-consciously zany librarian with infected-looking piercings. Not seven men, as grey as their suits, gathered round a boardroom table.

Yet when the Government drew back the rainbow curtain this week, that was what it revealed: not the usual online oddballs, nor the much-derided liberal white women supposedly responsible for every progressive folly, but a group that looked more like insurance brokers than gender revolutionaries.

On Tuesday, the Office for Equality and Opportunity posted photographs on LinkedIn of a lobbying session, offering a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the men “driving forward the Government’s progress for LGBT+ people”. The now-deleted post boasted of the OEO’s “commitment to banning harmful Conversion Practices, and delivering a successful European IDAHOBIT+ Forum in 2027.”

The LGBT+ stakeholders included Simon Lightwood MP, the Equalities Minister, and Lord Collins, the UK’s Special Envoy for LGBT+ Rights.

Article continues at https://www.terftimes.com/p/ideological-sausage-festival/

Office for Equality and Opportunity post

Ideological sausage festival | TERF Times

A now deleted post reveals who's really behind the Government's trans agenda

https://www.terftimes.com/p/ideological-sausage-festival/

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Igmum · Today 08:49

Going back to the main post, it reminds me of those lovely Saudi Arabian women’s rights conferences run without any of those pesky women (so much nicer). Alex Sobel is going to be an utter disaster in this role.

And yes, any old fashioned lefty who thinks the material basis of oppression is important - that it matters what you pay people or what their terms and conditions are, should also realise that women are disadvantaged for material reasons, that it is not possible for a man to buy himself into womanhood by shelling out for drugs or a bit of lippy. Sadly Queer Theory’s dominance has challenged traditional Marxist analysis (not very well I think) so now we have the irony of some lefties focusing on consumption rather than material conditions. No, it doesn’t make sense to me either.

Wishesandhorses · Today 11:12

I'd quite like a lot of these men to be forced to sit through a showing of Made In Dagenham, and then to have to write an essay on 'have the attitudes of politically left men shifted at all in this time to somewhere any better?'

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