What is the Labour party really saying on sex and gender?
by Carys Moseley, Christian Concern:
On Monday, Anneliese Dodds, the chair of the Labour party, put in writing in an article in the Guardian what Labour’s position will be on sex and transgender policies from now on.
Sections of the press are cheering this on as Labour finally ditching Keir Starmer’s previous plans to promote self-identification. Is this true?
Pretending to be the balanced middle way.
The first that Anneliese Dodds does in her article is to position Labour as different from both the Conservatives and the SNP. She attacks Conservative MP Lee Anderson for saying the Conservatives should fight the next general election with “a mix of culture wars and trans debate”. Her argument is that both women and transgender people are among the most vulnerable in society, and therefore this is inappropriate.
Regarding the SNP, she says its support for gender self-identification “seemed to be more about picking a fight with Westminster than bringing about meaningful change”. This suggests she is really in favour of self-identification. Of course, on that basis her only reason for bashing the SNP is that it was supposedly primarily motivated to oppose Westminster. However, in the same breath, she says “the safeguards that were proposed to protect women and girls from predators who might abuse the system were simply not up to scratch.” This consideration is an afterthought, with self-identification by gender foregrounded. It seems she has not yet learnt anything from the SNP fiasco.
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