@soniasodha Trans rights are human rights, trans women are women. Compassion is seriously lacking and people have become so vicious to an already marginalized group. Just leave trans people alone ffs 🏳️⚧️
With Pride Month coming up, I’d like to talk about this. It’s great to support “love is love” & celebrate that. No doubt. However, queer and trans people ARE in danger. Depending on where you are, that danger can mean a lot of things.
Here in the U.S., there are 515 anti-trans bills circulating in state houses nationwide. Everything from stripping trans people of legal recognition to ridiculous bathroom bills. The GOP has outdone itself during this election year.
We are facing threats, constant demonization, and a growing violence nationwide. Those that are closing their eyes to it need to open them. Injustice is happening as we speak.
Let’s focus less on corporate pride & more on what the true origins of the Pride movement are: resistance & acts of rebellion against the status quo.
Reminder that @jk_rowling has said nothing in support of Amber Heard. Bought Depps yacht to bail him out, reportedly also bought his $75m private island and lets him stay there. The idea she is against "misogynist men" is absurd, they're her friends! https://t.co/53SSbkfWd7
@OwenJones84 @Pibasedlifeform Insane that big trans advocate @OwenJones84 does not even mention that Streeting and Starmer basically vowing to continue Tory attacks on trans people may also have lowered enthusiasm
BREAKING: The hijacked NHS - infiltrated by Gender Critical’s backed by the Conservatives - are now threatening to REMOVE trans kids from supportive parents. Replicating the US. All part of #Cass. This is a high-level attack on trans existence. https://t.co/19YI408XL2
@OwenJones84 Maybe @OwenJones84 you could spare a tweet for the trans communities in your own country being abandoned by Labour. I know though that all the anti-Israel posts get you much more engagement and maybe you are worried about alienating all your Galloway crowd, but still.
@OwenJones84 I know that @OwenJones84 you have forgotten all other issues rather than Gaza, despite the horrific attacks on trans existence in your own country, but MAYBE you could have included the Labour Party throwing trans rights under the bus as also a factor in the lower enthusiasm
I know that @OwenJones84 you have forgotten all other issues rather than Gaza, despite the horrific attacks on trans existence in your own country, but MAYBE you could have included the Labour Party throwing trans rights under the bus as also a factor in the lower enthusiasm
If you're on the left, the results are very heartening indeed.
- The Tories got smashed, and will lose the next election
- But this is nothing like 1997.
Labour had a 17 point lead over the Tories in the local elections before the 1997 general election.
This time, they have a 9 point lead.
Labour wasn't losing seats to parties to their left in the pre-1997 local election.
This time, Labour have haemorrhaged support to the Greens and independents.
What that underlines is a massive rejection of the Tories, but none of the enthusiasm for an opposition party set for a landslide victory of the sort on the cards for Labour.
It shows that already key parts of Labour's electoral coalition - younger people, Muslims and other minority Brits - are angry about Keir Starmer's leadership.
That's before he's even prime minister and actually enacting policies which anger people - like continued austerity, or complicity in war crimes, for example.
There is already a constituency of people in Britain who are actively rejecting Starmerism from the left.
That will only grow when Labour is in power. So the task of the left is to build on this base - and then build from there when Labour is in office.