Timeline of Sir Keir Starmer’s comments on transgender rights and Labour MP Rosie Duffield
Rosie Duffield MP with Sex Matters
So we can use this as a resource, here is the timeline of of Starmer’s fumbling on the gender issue:
9th June 2021: Sir Keir Starmer pledges that a future Labour government is ‘committed’ to introducing ‘self-declaration for trans people’, making it easier for people to identify as the opposite sex
21st September 2021: Sir Keir meets Labour MP Rosie Duffield, who had been forced to pull out of attending the party conference after being accused of transphobia
26th September: Asked if it is transphobic to say only women have a cervix, as Ms Duffield had, Sir Keir tells the BBC ‘It is something that shouldn’t be said, it is not right’
11th March 2022: As his shadow cabinet struggles to define the word woman, Sir Keir tells the Times: ‘A woman is a female adult, and in addition to that trans women are women, and that is not just my view — that is actually the law.’
28th March: Asked repeatedly if a woman can have a penis, Sir Keir tells LBC: ‘I don't think that discussing this issue in this way helps anyone in the long run.’
20th January 2023: Ms Duffield accuses her party of having a women problem and says there was ‘silence’ from Sir Keir’s office after she was heckled in the Commons by fellow Labour MPs
2nd April: Sir Keir is mocked again after telling the Sunday Times: ‘For 99.9 per cent of women, it is completely biological ... and of course they haven't got a penis.’
27th July: He tells LBC ‘a woman is an adult female, so let’s clear that one up’ and confirms that Labour no longer backs self-ID for transgender people
4th January 2024: Ms Duffield says she has been ‘completely exonerated’ of allegations of transphobia after an investigation by Labour’s National Executive Committee
30th April: Sir Keir tells ITV that Ms Duffield was correct to say only women have a cervix, but declines to apologise to her.
Thanks for clearing this up.
Red Scare Keir's stance on this crucial matter is abysmal, and I don't trust him for a second that Labour won't back "Self ID" in the near future, or that he has finally aknowledged that there is indeed this little thing commonly referred to as reality. He'll throw Rosie Duffield under the next bus if he considers it helpful.
He should crawl on his knees while apologising to her. Getting down on his knees would not be new to him given his virtue signalling on BLM. Maybe, just maybe we don’t matter.