Proposing the motion, the party member Lucas North condemned the EHRC guidance and noted a rise in anti-trans hate crimes. They added: “The rights of women and the rights of trans people do not have to be placed on opposite sides of a manufactured culture war.”

Another speaker for the motion, Rebecca Jones, said that as a trans woman she was “tired of being a culture war prop”.

She said: “You now fear using public spaces. You fear anyone that looks at you too much in case they hate trans people enough that they put you at risk. All whilst your government repeats the words ‘dignity’ and ‘respect’, whilst doing everything in their power to ensure trans people do not have them.”

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[–] 7 points 1 month ago

The EHRC is corrupt.

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    [–] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It beggars belief that Labour didn't just out right come out and say, "that's the law but it is wrong and we will move heaven and earth to change it". Labour.

    Fuck me.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 month ago

    Well, no party apart from the Greens have outright come out in support of trans people before now, sadly, and I'm not sure that any of them have outright challenged the Supreme Court ruling.

    Individual Labour, Lib Dems and Green MPs have come out against the EHRC guidance, but the Labour government under Starmer blocked a debate that would have allowed the guidance to have been formally rejected.

    The Lib Dems legitimately are, in aggregate, pretty good on this issue. The Greens are too. That said, I haven't seen any new bills or ammendments yet to actually resolve this issue. I hope they are in the works.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    It doesn't address their important issues like "doing what Israel says".

    Is there any way to use former Eurovision winner Dana International, who is both Israeli and trans?

    "Not fixing this miswritten legislation offends Israeli former Eurovision winner Dana International which means not fixing it is antisemitic and therefore must be top priority for the current 'Labour' party"

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    That can’t be right - just yesterday people on Lemmy were saying the Lib Dems don’t have any principles and don’t stand for anything!

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 month ago

    On my other post, no less!

    Yeah, I think they have been fairly wishy washy on things so far. They do feel like an "MPs do their own thing" party so far, but maybe they're trying to change?

    Maybe they've been like this for a while but they've not gotten much air time so it's hard to tell.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    "they don't have any principles" very often means "they don't have principles I agree with". People are kinda bad at understanding principles they don't agree with, which makes it difficult to see when people are working according to them.

    This means that the lib Dems, whose main principle is liberalism which people on Lemmy generally don't agree with, get it in the teeth.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Maybe Labour can finally do something about this obvious injustice.

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