Owen Jones guardian piece attacking Duffield

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In case anyone is interested ...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/30/lgbtq-labour-thatcher-section-28

It's basically some waffle around historic labour homophobia building up to the real point which is trying to get Rosie Duffield in trouble for saying men can't be mothers.

Oh my, that's spot on.

@highame his mum is even worse than him. LOJ is a hideous wee misognist spoilt brat. Talking absolute rubbish as usual. Who buys The Guardian these days anyway ? Rosie Duffield is a credit to The Labour Party and the one MP I would campaign for.

Duf duf

Can we stop the ageist shit? None of us can control how we age, that’s largely genetic. And spending your life clinging hopelessly to youthful skin is a fool’s errand anyway.

The ageist shit is indeed low, along with the other isms that creep in on here. from time to time. You are right to call it out.

How someone is ageing, as we all do, really isn't relevant to this particular discussion.

It's what OJ said about RD and his crass attitude to women, that's of concern to me.

Presumably they think the matrons of Bootle will just keep voting like sheep?

Bootle matron here who has written to Dowd over his vote, no response as yet but I'm not holding my breath. There's been quite a bit of unrest about him at the school gates but the MP of the UK's safest seat won't care.

It's odd that he also picks out Lisa Nandy saying that “social conservatism” has “never been more important” when that interview was in 2019 and more to do with racial issues with no mention of trans rights.
The video below is from Julia Long calling out Lisa Nandy on sex self ID in 2020. Nandy has been one of the staunchest supporters of the wholeTRAagenda. Is it just a bit easier for Owen to attack and to discredit women, is that why he picked her?

I would love to believe that they had moved on from 100% support for 'Trans rights' but I think that it's too ingrained in the Party now.

Did any senior Labour MPs attend Pride yesterday ? I've only seen pictures of Sadiq Khan so far.

The mental gymnastics behind anti-truth. Must be historic homophobia etc etc.

We just think male parents cannot call themselves mothers.

And at best we think they cannot call themselves mothers and expect all to agree.

And we wonder of the ethics of asking your child to call pa 'ma'.

@Backstreets thank you for your post, that was really interesting. I do hope things improve. At least it gets talked about here.