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.
Can someone explain to me how, cis women are able to compete fairly with trans women?
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/55/11/577 Here you go. Tl/dr after two years of hormone therapy it appears to be a wash. Trans women were still faster on average than cis women, but trans men could now do more sit ups on average than cis men.
I think it’s not a big enough problem to care abt. It’s literally just a conservative wedge issue so people get up in arms about trans women.
Besides, sports governing bodies already have criteria about what biology is allowed to compete. There have been many times that even masculine cis women have fallen under their scrutiny for having hormone profiles that give them too much of an advantage. I don’t know why this topic gets dragged out onto the public square. (Except I do, and it’s GOP strategy.) It’s like if the entire country started panicking about swimmers having suits that are too high-tech. Who gives a fuck.
He just supports whatever is the most popular policy on trans people as per the yougov poll lol. https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/43194-where-does-british-public-stand-transgender-rights-1
He’s not any more transphobic than the average Briton. I would argue he’s less so because he doesn’t seem to want to limit our healthcare access yet, although NHSE already drafted some dystopian guidance that will turn it all into conversion therapy thinly veiled in double-speak. To any British trans people reading this I’d start making plans to leave.
“not any more transphobic than the average Briton“
I mean doesn’t that say something? What a fuckin nightmare
