Labour has become so out of touch on sex and gender that it’s now ignoring both public opinion and the law, says Professor Jo Phoenix in the Mail. Here’s an excerpt:
I was once a member of the Labour Party – but not any more. I left in 2021, the day that David Lammy dismissed women’s rights campaigners like me as “dinosaurs… hoarding their rights”. For good measure, he claimed that men can grow a cervix.
I could see then that, on the issue of trans rights, my party had lost the plot. It had veered so wildly from what I felt was right – and frankly what the vast majority of the public feels is right – that I could no longer support it.
The Supreme Court ruling should have been a wake-up call for Labour but the party has shown itself to be hopelessly out of touch once again.
The silence from the PM on such a socially transformative ruling is tin-eared enough. But now the likes of Home Office Minister Dame Angela Eagle are plotting to thwart the judgment in a cowardly WhatsApp group of Labour MPs.
Comments like hers that “some public bodies are overreacting” to the ruling are dangerous, particularly for organisations having to implement the court’s findings.
Has the British Transport Police, in announcing it would amend its strip-search guidelines, “overreacted”? Of course not, and to say so is deliberately misleading, but it shows how deep the rot has set in.
On and on this WhatsApp group goes, its members burying their heads deeper and deeper in the sand. The Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Baroness Falkner, is branded “appalling” after she welcomed the ruling’s “clarity” in a radio interview. …
The ruling was simple: that women are a category of people who deserve respect and dignity, and trans people are a category who deserve respect and dignity. But Labour didn’t get the memo.
One day, if and when the party gets itself out of this mess, I may rejoin. But, by failing to keep up with the law, they are the ones in danger of being branded dinosaurs.
Jo Phoenix is a professor of criminology and co-founder of Open University’s Gender Critical Research Network.
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All well and good but people like Jo Phoenix have created this warped environment. Previously a member of the Labour Party – there’s the explanation. She is also a member of the Open University’s Gender Critical Research Network. What bloody nonsense do they talk about? So she is sucking on the public teat, contributing nothing useful to society but has left the Labour Party.
Not a great CV is it?
Meanwhile, more proof that free speech is an illusion in the UK as a man gets arrested for swearing. I’m impressed, he’s obviously knowledgeable about the law and his rights. It doesn’t help him though;
”Meanwhile in England
Man who clearly knows the law is still arrested for using the word “shit”
Britain is the new North Korea.”
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1913869508462211092
Does this ruling mean Rosie Duffield has been vindicated and has she received an apology from Starmer? Meanwhile, look at the hypocrisy and hostility of the Transtifa mob. You’re a ”fascist” and worthy of being a victim of a hate campaign if you don’t indulge their fantasy and affirm their delusion;
”Not once have I ever seen or heard one of us ‘Far right Fascist Bigot Terf Nazis’ call for the death/murder of trans people. Yet for years we’ve needed protection, bouncers, Police advice. And here’s a union-sponsored rally against women’s rights to our own spaces with threats…”
https://x.com/RosieDuffield1/status/1913728923831095397
”The reason that attempts to stigmatize obstreperous women like J.K. Rowling who wouldn’t go along with the global Borg’s attempt to give men who say they are women access to women’s intimate spaces will fail is that those women are right about everything and the hysteria and hyperbole with which the movement have successfully dominated much of the world is absurd.
The transgender movement must observe the same limits on its ambitions that every other movement in a liberal, pluralistic society must observe: they must permit others to exercise their free conscience to believe or disbelieve their dogmas.
If nothing remains of the movement if these limits are observed, then it tells us that the movement is an illiberal force unfit for recognition in a pluralistic society.” Wesley Yang
I think the writer is optimistic if she thinks the left will revise its values any time soon. They are following a carefully prepared plan to destroy society snd the trans issue was a perfect one for them.
I wonder why there is an “Open University’s Gender Critical Research Network”. Why should tax payers find this.
Really? Was that the ruling?
Do we need endless laws and rulings to identify categories of people and legislate that they deserve respect and dignity?
How many of these do we need? One for every category? How many different ways can we categorise people? I would think the list is almost endless.
The real problem for the trans people is that they’ve aroused the anger of one of the most powerful lobby groups in the world: the “women’s rights” lobby group. Except they don’t really lobby for rights but for privileges.
And that is really what pretty much all groups lobbying for rights are. They are special interest groups lobbying for special treatment or privileges.
Our laws already concede equal rights to everyone and have done so for a long time.
But we also have on top of that a bunch of additional laws that give special status or protection or whatever Orwellian euphemism you prefer for particular “categories” which actually distort equal rights and push for special privileges for certain groups.
The trans just didn’t realise who they were messing with when they tried to push their way into women’s toilets.
Hear hear
I nevr liked the Labour Party or any political party but I could at least see where old school Labour were coming from. Clearly an organisation with strong Christian roots, more Methodism than Marx as they used to say. A conciliatory attempt to manage capitalism and attenuate some of its savagery. At no point though in the post-war years could it ever have been said to be anti-imperialist party. They were just as gung-ho as their faux adversaries. These days they are beyond understanding. Perhaps they have resigned themselves to being a cheap copy of the American Democrats. Roy Hattersley said that Labour died when it decided to relinquish the spiritual values of justice and solidarity and chose the values of the marketplace instead. Essentially you have the heavenly twins of Wokeism and corporatism.
If you haven’t realised that socialism is a pseudo science and in reality communism by the age of 25 you are without doubt an ideological zealot. The worst are the kind we now have in government right now, they jump on every bandwagon to get votes from minorities, they then shy away from the problem which have been created by their own idiotic policies and then try to legislate themselves out of trouble.
they are the worst kind of human being and are definitely not very social at all.
this Is a radical government who are pursuing policies based on the lowest popular vote in a century and see absolutely nothing wrong with doing things that most of the population, and the world for that matter, find abhorrent. They are disgusting people.
Many in the Labour party, like so much of the British establishment and much of the Conservative party, have twisted legal technicalities to press a multitude of agendas such as mass immigration; identity politics; multiculturalism; limitations on free speech. The snag is, once this dynamic has started it gains a momentum of its own, so it then is applied to the trans situation. Had the establishment opposed the ‘man is a woman’ argument then, by extension, it would have debased the manipulative manner in which legal technicalities have been used for other issues.
Why are we so interested in this? This is one group of Far Left activists – the trans lobby – fighting another group of Far Left activists – the ultra feminists / “TERFs”.
I know that Toby Young thinks the TERFs are our allies in the culture wars. They are not. They hate conservative values just as much as the trans activists do.
We on the Right ought to keep well out of these squabbles. Both sides are aiming to undermine and destroy the culture and traditions of our country and the wider West.
It isn’t ”ultra feminists” exclusively at all. So you think only women that identify as ”feminists” give a shit about female’s sex-based rights being abused and threatened from the trans mafia/woketards? Are the rest of us non-feminists supposed to just sit back and not get involved or oppose this in any way? In case you hadn’t realised, this threat is aimed at ALL females and therefore ALL women should be paying attention and opposing this, as should any men who actually give a stuff about the rights of their daughters, wives and other loved ones, and these men hardly refer to themselves as ‘feminists’, do they? Where one sits on the political spectrum is largely irrelevant here.
I couldn’t put it better
Not sure what you mean by “female’s sex-based rights”. That doesn’t sound like a conservative concept, so I presume you aren’t a conservative. (Not a criticism, just an observation.)
All this talk of rights needs to be replaced by talk of responsibilities, the law needs to be applied to all equally, and respect needs to be shown to our country’s traditions and social structure.
None of that is done by squabbling about some ridiculous concept like “trans rights” – or indeed “female’s sex-based rights”.
Final proof?
You mean turning the UK into a Communist State in 1945, nationalising industry and society and launching an unaffordable cradle-to-the-grave debilitating State-dependency wasn’t a clue?
The effects of which we suffer today with our industrial base destroyed in exchange for a decrepit health system, millions of imported dependents on welfare for which has cost £2.8 trillion to date and increasing.
So OK until recently when they became « out of touch ».