Keir Starmer says he doesn’t want schools teaching young people about transgender identities

[u/PinkNews]

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/25/keir-starmer-trans-education-general-election-2024/

[u/CloneOfKarl]

Alongside these seemingly conflicting stances within the party, yesterday Keir Starmer also said he will meet with JK Rowling to discuss trans issues.

Or how about spending that time discussing the issue with experts in the field instead?

[u/ChefExcellence → u/CloneOfKarl]

When was the last time Keir Starmer met with a trans person to discuss these "issues", do you reckon?

[u/Aiyon → u/ChefExcellence]

When was the time anyone significant platformed us?

Every second article about us has a TERF or GC hate group on to give their piece. Even the cass review consulted with conversion therapy advocates.

But trans people or allies? Idk, seems like bias to me, let’s not

The closest thing I’ve seen is Nish Kumar having a pair of trans public figures on his podcast to talk about stuff. Which I respect him a lot for

[u/arahman81 → u/Aiyon]

Remember how the BBC platformed a rapist in their article about cis women being "pressured" to have sex with trans women?

[u/HazelCheese → u/arahman81]

Rapist and domestic abuser.

They also interviewed trans people for it but didn't include any of their comments because they didn't "tell the right story".

Literal insanity. It's not even a joke. It's straight up nationalised bigotry.

[u/Aiyon → u/arahman81]

And how the closest they came to acknowledging it or apologising was to say it “didn’t meet accuracy standards”?

All well and good after they tell millions of people we’re rapists, to quietly go “tho we can’t be sure”.

The fact they weren’t required to issue an outright retraction still bothers me. Imagine if they wrote that article about any other demographic.

The wiki article really shows what a farce it is.

“It was renamed-“ to still push a narrative that trans women are pressuring people into sex they don’t want…