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Starmer had previously refused to state whether trans women like Lia Thomas should be allowed to compete in women’s sport amid accusations from Harry Potter author JK Rowling that his party could “no longer be counted on to defend women’s rights”.

Ah, so this is what the Labour party is designed to do: make billionaire feel better about imaginary threats from minority groups.

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[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago

“not any more transphobic than the average Briton“

I mean doesn’t that say something? What a fuckin nightmare

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah it's absolutely wild. Even progressives in the UK are unusually anti-trans and extremely xenophobic and will repeat TERF rhetoric and shit about migrants coming in and claiming mansions on benefits verbatim while usually still claiming to be progressives. They're not even libs, it's straight up GOP-level rhetoric.

Somewhat related - Have you seen the UnitedKingdom subreddit? Absolutely insane. If you have not, I would keep away, the damage it has done to my sanity is irreparable. I'm not convinced it's all just bots either, unless there's a hidden space on the lemmyverse somewhere or elsewhere where actual progressive brits congregate to discuss internal policy and news it seems to be actually fairly representative of the average british bloodlust as well, even for young metropolitan people.

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