A contract that refers to female organizations that raised concerns about the treatment of transgender children as “hate groups” has been approved by Angela Rayner.
When Ms. Rayner announced her candidacy for the 2020 deputy Labour head, she supported a trans rights contract that referred to organizations like Women’s Place UK, which promotes single-sex murder refuges for women, as “trans-exclusionist dislike groups.”
Ms. Rayner was asked to abandon her responses following the Cass overview into the treatment of children with gender problems, which found that the majority of the information for identity healthcare was “shaky” and that use of medications like puberty blockers with extreme caution. But, her spokesman declined to repent.
High-report Labour figures have recently made remarks endorsing the views of trans activists, including Sir Keir Starmer, the party president, who in 2022 said that “trans women are women”.
On Thursday, Sir Keir’s spokesman declined to remove his remark but said: “Of course sex and gender are unique, and constitutionally various for good reason.” When Sir Keir was elected as the Labour head, he did not sign the contract.
Two years ago he said: “A person is a female child, and, in addition to that, transgender women are women, and that is not only my view, that is truly the law”.
On Wednesday, Wes Streeting, the shadow health minister, said he had been wrong to say in the past that “transgender women are women, get over it”.
On Thursday, Victoria Atkins, the Health Secretary, accused Labour of having fueled an “atmosphere of coercion” on transgender concerns.
However, a Labour official said: “We all have a responsibility to make sure discourse of sensitive topics is conducted in a courteous manner. The Labour Party will often work in that manner.
The LGB Alliance, which was also designated as a love party by the Labour Trans Charter, applied for a walk at the Labour meeting last season, but was turned down.
In a contract signed by Ms. Rayner, members were instructed to “organize and struggle against misogynistic organizations like Woman’s Place UK, LGB Alliance, and other trans-exclusionist love parties.”
Speaking to The Telegraph, Kate Barker, the foundation’s chief executive, said: “We hope Angela Rayner may reflect on the Cass review and evaluate her view of LGB Alliance. It is not ‘nasty’ for an LGB charity to alert about intellectually-driven, unevidenced health experiments on younger people, most of whom are homosexual, gay or bisexual.
“There’s a much more serious issue at play, yet, which is a culture where also older politicians condemn their opponents as ‘nasty’ with zero proof and zero engagement. One of the main causes of this extraordinary health incident has been allowed to continue for thus much is also why.
“This time, LGB Alliance will once again use to show at Labour conference. We hope that we will finally have the chance to participate in a civilized and rational debate in the wake of Cass.
Children’s Place UK, which had criticized plans to change the Gender Recognition Act to let people officially identify as men or women without getting skilled acceptance, said: “We welcome the change in direction by UK Labour and the remarks made by many top Labour figures in response to the Cass Review.
We hope the manifesto and the Labour Party reflect this.
According to Ms. Atkins, “Labour has spent the last ten years trying to shut women out when it comes to this. They have participated in the ideology and cultural wars, creating an atmosphere of intimidation for anyone who had the guts to question this ideology.
“They have been so forthright in their support of this ideology in the past, so it is a little rich of the Labour Party to be lecturing the rest of us now.”
