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.
it never works. i understand politics is not always dictated by what is right or good, but besides being wrong to scapegoat a marginalized group, getting more bigoted never works for liberal parties under conditions of widespread reaction. even if the rump masses of Undecided Voters are genuinely slavering for the mass liquidation of trans people (which, in the UK at least, may well be true), you are not going to benefit politically more than the dyed in the wool jodhpurs-and-riding-crop aristo fascists that make up the other side. you aren't making some kind of calculated sacrifice (of someone else) to gain some other political victory. you aren't even making a savvy career move. at best, you are buying your own ticket out of the camps when your cowardly submission gives them permission to seize absolute power and they need a typewritten explanation of why you aren't one of the removed whom we must liquidate for the good of the nation.