Labour Party 2018-2023

 

Labour peer backs Kemi Badenoch and says children should not be encouraged to change gender The Telegraph 07.12.23

Labour grassroots back Starmer on gender self-ID Guardian 26.11.23

Labour MP Rosie Duffield faces ‘grotesque’ party anti-Semitism probe and could be blocked from standing at the next election over support for trans-sceptic’s Eddie Izzard tweet Mail 26.11.23

Library run by Labour council reinstates gender-critical books after backlash The Telegraph 19.10.23

At last, an outbreak of peace in the gender wars Janice Turner The Times 12.10.23

JK Rowling blasts Lisa Nandy as ‘one of the biggest reasons’ women don’t trust Labour to ‘defend their rights’, after the MP said trans rapists should be allowed to serve sentences in female-only prisons Mail 11.10.23

Keir’s woman problem Victoria Smith The Critic 08.10.23

Brighton Pride: Trans activists block Labour Party in parade The Argus 07.08.23

It took female MPs from both parties to change Starmer’s stance on gender politics Guardian 13.08.23

Sir Keir Starmer has changed his trans self-ID stance – but he needs his MPs to follow Suzanne Moore The Telegraph 29.07.23

Keir Starmer should apologise to women Shonagh Dillon The Critic 29.07.23

Keir Starmer: a woman is an adult female The Times 26.07.23

Wes Streeting apologises to Rosie Duffield for treatment by Labour over gender views Guardian 28.07.23

Labour’s self-ID mess | The Spectator The Spectator 25.07.23

Labour’s overhaul of gender recognition won’t satisfy either side. But it’s a start Gaby Hinsliff Guardian 25.07.23

Labour still can’t be trusted on trans rights The Spectator 24.07.23

Labour will lead on reform of transgender rights – and we won’t take lectures from the divisive Tories Anneliese Dodds in The Guardian 24.07.23

With Keir Starmer unable to define what a woman is, no wonder Stonewall is targeting Labour  Mail 16.07.23

Keir Starmer: ‘Clearly ridiculous’ for children to self-identify as cats The Telegraph 21.06.23

Labour owes women an apology Raquel Rosario Sanchez The Times 19.04.23

Starmer ducks question as Sunak draws dividing line on trans issues The Times 05.04.23

Labour at war over plan to banish trans women from female-only spaces as some members back decision to ‘tidy’ up Equality Act while others call for resistance Mail 05.04.23

Starmer is taking 99.9% of women for fools The Times 05.04.23

Keir Starmer says trans issues ‘are marginal’ The Times 04.04.23

Keir Starmer: Trans rights can’t override women’s rights The Times 01.04.23

Labour vows it make it easier to change gender in policy switch The Telegraph 31.03.23

‘If you can’t say what a woman is, you will lose the election’: Labour strategists warn Keir Starmer he must rule out bringing in gender self-ID or face an SNP-style meltdown Mail 26.03.23

Keir Starmer is (still) equivocating on women’s rights Joan Smith in 23.03.23 UnHerd

Labour ‘must fix its trans stance to win the next election’ The Telegraph 18.03.23

Starmer isn’t working for women Joan Smith in UnHerd 30.01.23

Labour shut down the antisemitism debate. Now it’s silencing women The Sunday Times 28.01.23

Labour won’t speak up for MP Rosie Duffield silenced over gender reform The Times 24.01.23

If gutless Keir Starmer doesn’t stand up for women on the trans issue, I’ll never vote Labour again Julie Bindel in The Times 28.12.22

Tories plot to put Sir Keir Starmer on the spot over gender law The Sunday Times 24.12.22

Keir Starmer: Pro-trans laws are needed across UK The Telegraph 23.12.22

Labour will pay for supporting Nicola Sturgeon’s trans crusade The Telegraph 22.12.22

Goodbye Eddie Izzard — and good riddance Joan Smith in UnHerd 05.12.22

If Labour is truly the party of equality, it wouldn’t shut down the trans debate Sonia Sodha in The Guardian 02.10.22

Sir Keir is betraying the women Labour once fought for as we find ourselves harassed, insulted and called ‘transphobes’ Jenni Murray in the Mail 28.09.22

Labour’s trans-rights policy is looking increasingly absurd Suzanne Moore 02.08.22

Labour MPs back gender-critical group after conference snub The Guardian 01.08.22

Is Labour changing its mind on trans issues? James Kirkup in The Spectator 15.07.22

Labour accused of ‘silencing’ women in row over sex-based rights group Guardian 03.07.22

Why TERFs need to leave the left Julie Burchill in Spiked online 29.06.22

Stella Creasy’s bourgeois feminism Kathleen Stock in UnHerd 31.05.22

What Stella Creasy gets wrong about trans rights Julie Bindel 30.05.22

Fresh Labour infighting over trans issues as party chair says fellow MP Stella Creasy is WRONG to argue that women CAN be born with penises Mail 29.05.22

Stella Creasy: ‘JK Rowling is wrong – a woman can have a penis’ The Telegraph 27.05.22

Labour MP Rosie Duffield claims her own party are making ‘complete idiots’ of themselves over trans debate and says it’s driving voters to the Tories Mail 24.04.22

Labour’s contradictory policies on trans and women’s rights must be addressed The Guardian 06.04.22

Inside Labour’s “clusterfuck” week on trans rights New Statesman 03.04.22

Labour MP Rosie Duffield’s pledge to bak campaign to protect sex-based rights Mail 02.04.22

Labour is betraying women… again Julie Burchill in Spiked 30.03.22

Labour is falling into the Tim Farron trap on sex and gender The Spectator 29.03.22

Keir Starmer’s trans ‘drivel’ is reported to the equalities watchdog Mail 27.03.22

Why are The Labour Party so Stupid? Suzanne Moore 12.03.22

Trans women are women, says Keir Starmer in call for legal reform The Times 12.03.22

What is a woman? Don’t try asking Labour Sarah Ditum in The Times 11.03.22

What IS the point of women in Parliament if they’re too scared to say what a woman is?  Jenni Murray in the Mail 11.03.22

Yvette Cooper shies away from transgender ‘rabbit hole’ The Times 09.03.22

Keir Starmer can’t keep hiding in the gender wars Janice Turner The Times 11.02.22

Starmer’s silence: Why won’t Labour stand by women? Joan Smith at The Critic 03.02.22

Jess Phillips and Labour’s ongoing women problem Posie Parker in The Spectator 09.11.21

Labour MP says party ‘absolute embarrassment’ over gender identity ES 22.10.21

Labour MP compares opposing gender ideology to apartheid Maria MacLachlan 26.09.21

Labour’s support for single sex spaces is too little too late Unherd 24.09.21

Labour is losing women. It could cost the party the next election. It doesn’t have to be this way Labour Uncut 22.09.21

Keir Starmer backs ‘women-only spaces’ in ‘specific circumstances’, amid Labour row The Independent 22.09.21

Rosie Duffield seeks trans rights talks with Keir Starmer The Times 21.09.21

Labour MP compares opposing gender ideology to apartheid Maria MacLachlan 26.09.21

Labour’s support for single sex spaces is too little too late Unherd 24.09.21

Labour is losing women. It could cost the party the next election. It doesn’t have to be this way Labour Uncut 22.09.21

Keir Starmer backs ‘women-only spaces’ in ‘specific circumstances’, amid Labour row The Independent 22.09.21

On the trans issue, Labour and the Lib Dems are playing right into the Tories’ hands Jo Bartosch in The Telegraph 20.09.21

Speaker steps in over online threats to female Labour MP  The Times 19.09.21

Women’s Labour pains 17.09.21 Tom Farr in The Critic 

Labour’s woman problem Judith Wright in The Critic 21.08.21

Labour’s equality secretary Marsha de Cordova snubs Stonewall event The Times 21.08.21

Women’s campaigner ‘was sacked by Sadiq Khan’s administration after expressing concerns about trans women being allowed into refuges for rape victims’ Mail 19.08.21

If Starmer can’t condemn the misogynist bullies attacking Rosie Duffield, he’s no better than Corbyn The Telegraph 28.07.21

Labour MP Rosie Duffield investigated by party for liking anti-trans tweet The Times 27.07.21

The hounding of Rosie Duffield Debbie Hayton in The Spectator 27.07.21

Jess Phillips and the assault on biology Debbie Hayton in The Spectator 20.07.21

But what even is transphobia? The lies they tell blog 27.12.20

Erasing and silencing women in the name of inclusion WPUK 22.11.20

Assault on women’s rights by Cambridge City Council – Councillor resigns WPUK 24.10.20

We need to stand up for Rosie Duffield Julie Bindel 16.10.20

Rosie Duffield: ‘It feels like Gilead where women aren’t allowed to ask questions’ The Times 12.10.20

Keir Starmer’s woman problem Joan Smith 22.09.20

Labour’s transgender civil war has hit a new low Debbie Hayton 12.08.20

Justin Welby defends Rosie Duffield, MP accused of transphobia over cervix tweet The Times 06.08.20

Labour MP Rosie Duffield embroiled in transphobia row after cervical cancer tweet The Scotsman 01.08.20

Labour, trans politics, and misogyny Pilgrim Tucker 30.06.20

Why I was rejected for Labour Party membership and my response Karen Ingala Smith 27.06.20

Labour stands back from gender debate The Times 15.06.20

Boris’s gender change shake-up leaves Labour with a difficult choice James Kirkup in the Spectator 14.06.20

When an MP smears the party’s own members as bigots, it’s time for Keir Starmer to say what women mean to the Labour Party Fair Cop 11.06.20

Open letter to Keir Starmer Fair Cop 10.06.20

The trans rights charter is another way for Labour to put women in their place Suzanne Moore Telegraph 14.03.20

The Trans Debate And The Labour Party Jonathan Rutherford 06.03.20

Jess Phillips sparks fury on Mumsnet after saying ‘trans women are women’ Mail 20.01.20

Tottenham CLP motion on free speech and self-organisation WPUK 31.01.20

Labour activists launch declaration on women’s sex-based rights Morning Star 11.11.19

General election: Labour ‘putting women at risk’ with manifesto trans pledge Sunday Times 24.11.1

No wonder feminists have had enough of Jeremy Corbyn and his fellow ‘Brocialists’ Julie Burchill 10.02.19

Women get treated far worse than men in Labour’s transgender debate James Kirkup 26.01.19

LGBT Labour witch hunts WPUK 23.01.19

Labour threatens disciplinary action against member who calls transgender woman ‘a man’ Telegraph 10.11.18

Labour members ‘punished’ over transgender Facebook debate The Times 24.10.18

It could have been me Paula Boulton 19.09.18

How John McDonnell wooed Mumsnet James Kirkup 18.09.18

Labour’s refusal to accept the definition of a woman Jo Bartosch 11.09.18

I’ve quit the Labour Party because it has betrayed women Ann Sinnott, former councillor 08.08.18

Labour councillor quits in row over facilities for trans people The Times 31.7.18

The Catch 22 of Labour’s gender policy James Kirkup 23.05.18

How transgender ideology is Destroying the Labour Party Miranda Yardley 07.04.18

Statement on meeting with Dawn Butler on 28 March 2018 Woman’s Place UK

Leftist women in the UK refuse to accept Labour’s attempts to silence critiques of gender identity Meghan Murphy 23.03.18

Letter to UK Leader Jeremy Corby on trans/women’s rights Bea Jaspert 12.03.18

Radical transgender politics are being imposed on Labour’s women with no debate and no mercy Tom Harris, Telegraph 08.03.18

A Crisis Of Misogyny: A Plea To The Labour Party Jenni Harvey 07.03.18

A response to the Labour Party’s LGBT+ advisory post Linda Bellos 07.03.18

Labour riven by infighting over gender recognition Guardian 04.03.18

Women are a vital part of the socialist movement – they must be consulted over changes to the Gender Recognition Act Ruth Serwotka 23.0218

Fighting Genderism in Politics Jo Bartosch 21.01.18

Labour’s next civil war is a battle over what it means to be a woman James Kirkup Evening Standard 19.01.18

Fight to bar trans women from Labour shortlists The Times 18.01.18

Open Letter – Stella Creasy Jo Bartosch 08.01.18

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