I used to be a member of the Labor Party, but no longer. I left in 2021, and that day David Lammy regarded women’s rights activists like me as “dinosaurs…did accumulate their rights.” For good measures, he claimed that men can grow their cervix.
Then, I can see, about trans rights issues, my party lost the plot. It ran wild from what I thought was right – and frankly, the vast majority of the public thought was right – I can no longer support it.
The Supreme Court ruling was supposed to be a call for labor, but the party proved that it had lost contact once again.
PM’s silence on such a social change ruling is enough. But now, people like Home Office Minister Dame Angela Eagle are working to thwart the verdict in a cowardly group of WhatsApp labor MPs.
Comments like her say that “some public institutions overreact” are dangerous, especially for organizations that must enforce the results of court investigations.
Is the British Transport Police announcing that it will modify its undressing search guidelines to “overreact”? Of course not, to say that this is intentional misleading, but it shows the depth of the decay.
On this WhatsApp group, its members are buried deeper and deeper in the beach. Baroness Falkner, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, welcomed the ruling’s “clearity” in a radio interview, has made her brand “shocking”.
I left in 2021 and David Lammy sees women’s rights activists like me as “dinosaurs… hoard their rights”.
The Supreme Court ruling was supposed to be a call for labor, but the party proved that it had lost contact once again.
Now, people like Home Office Minister Dame Angela Eagle (pictured) are working to thwart the verdict in the timid Whatsapp Labor Parliamentarian
Do these politicians say they will ignore what the law says? You either act under the law or violate the law.
Even after the ruling, Health Secretary Karin Smyth worked hard to answer when asked whether trans women should be able to use the women-only locker room.
Bridget Phillipson, a woman, may have said the ruling brought “clearness and confidence”, but her unwise comments about Labor’s “always support the protection of monosexual spaces based on biological sexual behavior” are simply breathtaking.
Labor colleague Harriet Harman himself is one of the architects of the Equality Act, highly claiming that it “correctly explains the current legislation”, as if saying that the ruling is what Labour has always meant.
This is a party that promises to commit violence against women in elections, but what is it if women still cannot be defined?
It insulted, like me, they spent years getting caught up in this kafkaesque debate and suffered for it. As a scholar accused of crossing phobia and working at an open university, I suffered death threats and online harassment.
Last year, I successfully sued my former employer but before being driven to Breaking Point.
Baroness Falkner (pictured) was called “shock” after he welcomed the ruling’s “clearity” in a radio interview.
Even after the ruling, Health Secretary Karin Smyth (pictured) worked hard to answer when asked whether trans women should be able to use women-only locker rooms
Women’s Minister Bridget Phillipson may have said the ruling brings “clearness and confidence”, but her stupid comments on workers “always support the protection of single-sex space based on biological gender”
So, last week in the Supreme Court’s public gallery, it was totally exciting.
The ruling is simple: women are people of the respect and dignity they deserve, while trans people are the category of the respect and dignity they deserve. But Labour did not get the memorandum.
One day, if the party gets out of the way, I might rejoin. But by failing to keep up with the law, they are a danger to branded dinosaurs.
Jo Phoenix is a professor of criminology and co-founder of the Open University Gender Key Research Network.
