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

> Keir Starmer, who was previously applauded for condemning Rishi Sunak’s anti-trans ‘jokes’, has stated his opposition to the teaching of so-called “gender ideology” – a phrase which is widely considered an anti-trans dogwhistle.

I have not heard of this being dogwhistle before. Hopefully those with more knowledge than me can tell me why it is one.

> Speaking with reporters during a school visit in Kettering, Starmer said: “No, I’m not in favour of ideology being taught in our schools on gender,” he said.

> “I think we need to complete the consultation process and make sure that there is guidance that is age appropriate.

It would be interesting to see what the state decides when it is age appropriate.

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As an aside, this website needs a web dev/designer. Why are their ads after almost every paragraph?

Gender Ideology is a concept developed by US Catholic theorists to go after gay people raising children, trans people and abortion. It was popularised by the far right over there and has been stripped of all but the anti-trans parts by the U.K. media and it’s become a nonsense phrase that’s used to mean nothing more than trans people are valid.

That Labour are adopting religious right/far right discourse in earnest and wanting to shut down schools acknowledging the validity of trans people is just another layer added to the shit sundae Keir is serving up to trans people right now.

He’s a million points ahead in the polls, he’s under no pressure, at this point it’s clear he’s just revulsed by trans people and wants us to have diminished lives. The Tories are dead, long life the Tories!

LSE article exploring phrase’s origin:

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2017/12/11/gender-ideology-tracking-its-origins-and-meanings-in-current-gender-politics/

Ah yes, this will fix the “trans issue” just like Section 28 successfully eliminated all gay people from the UK.

Trans and tolerance for all generally needs to be addressed as a whole, though what I don’t understand currently is why something that affects around 0.5% of the population taking over such a high percentage of the news cycles.

This doesn’t affect 99.5% of the population of England and Wales but it’s constant news. There are more people who are homeless, or children living in poverty than there are trans people. A call every 30 seconds is made to the police regarding domestic violence which affects 1 in 5 of everyone (male or female) during our lifetime.

I’m not saying ignore it, or not address it, I just that I don’t understand why the other issues are pushed aside for this.

I’m glad we continue to focus on what are clearly the biggest issue/s

“I think we need to complete the consultation process and make sure that there is guidance that is age appropriate.

That is helpful for teachers and has at its heart the safeguarding of children.”

Story over nothing. He didn’t say he doesn’t want schools teaching gender, he said they want to wait until they have all the facts as to how to teach it.

But its pinknews, its basically the dailymail of the far left.

This is horrifying. If he said the same thing about gay people, it’d be met with outrage.

Christ, but this paper is one of the worst ones for “headline asserting things that article does not in fact back up” ‘reporting’

Oh look Section 28 is back…it really is just history repeating.

Maybe I’m reading the article wrong, but I don’t think the headline is accurate.