Keir Starmer’s trans dystopia

Last night, Sir Keir Starmer gave a speech to the Pink News awards 2022, in which he set out his LGBT policy platform. The speech offered a chilling glimpse into the priorities of a future Labour government. Given today’s resignation of prime minister Liz Truss, and the implosion of the Tory Party, there is every chance that Starmer’s vision could soon become a reality.

First there was the Labour leader’s pledge to ‘ban conversion therapy in all its forms’. This sounds reasonable on the surface. But it is hard to overstate the cynicism of such doublespeak. When most people hear the term ‘conversion therapy’, they imagine minors being subjected to chemical castration, physical and psychological aversion techniques, or perhaps a vicar ‘praying away the gay’. Thankfully, such practices are largely confined to the dustbin of history.

When Starmer says he will ban conversion therapy ‘in all its forms’, he is referring to what trans activists disingenuosly describe as ‘trans conversion therapy’. The wording here is deeply misleading. A ‘trans inclusive’ ban on conversion therapy would put huge pressure on anyone counselling vulnerable, gender-dysphoric young people to ‘affirm’ their chosen gender. It equates talking through a child’s struggles with their gender with the abhorrent practice of gay conversion therapy.

In other words, a Keir Starmer government would effectively make it illegal not to provide ‘affirmative care’ to so-called trans youth – a path which usually involves experimental puberty blockers and then irreversible surgery.

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