Good to see some Labour MPs standing up to their party’s transphobic policies… www.standard.co.uk/news/politic... - ThreadSky

natacha.bsky.social • 79 days ago

Good to see some Labour MPs standing up to their party’s transphobic policies…

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/wes-streeting-labour-mps-sian-berry-health-secretary-b1199456.html

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isobel-11.bsky.social•79 days ago

Guy creeps me out like a ventriloquist 's dummy in a kids bedroom.

aminaerin.bsky.social•79 days ago

He’s like the kid that would go running to the teach all the while being the school bully

aminaerin.bsky.social•79 days ago

God I hate him that smug look

sarahviktoria.bsky.social•79 days ago

He's s loathsome thing. He gives off bad vibes from the get-go.

aminaerin.bsky.social•79 days ago

Totally agree he’s the kind of person who has ‘practised’ empathy that he just switches off

madycast.com•79 days ago

politicians are trained sociopaths

aminaerin.bsky.social•79 days ago

True

gendergoblinhelen.bsky.social•79 days ago

I mean they're all ambitious but Streeting so obviously has zero principles apart from 'I want to be PM.'

sarahviktoria.bsky.social•79 days ago

Like Starmer, Streeting is just a dead mechanism.

aminaerin.bsky.social•79 days ago

Not quite imo streeting is a religious zealot.

sarahviktoria.bsky.social•79 days ago

I didn't say what was operating the dead mechanism.

jayne350.bsky.social•78 days ago

He’s got a face I could quite happily punch, and i’m not a violent person

wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social•79 days ago

He looks like a raw overstuffed sausage.

waslottie.bsky.social•79 days ago

I always think he looks like an Auton. I think it's b/c he has a sort of dead-eyed waxwork quality.

transiness.bsky.social•79 days ago

What we need are reparations for those forced through a puberty who then have to reverse it. The surgical, emotional and financial costs to these people are huge.

hollybrigstocke.bsky.social•79 days ago

I wondered when Kate Osborne would pull her finger out. The thing is it's more than just a technicality. The NHS is already transphobic due in large part to politicians and media. Streeting is pouring salt into that wound.

It's also about women's rights. Streeting is *abusing* girls (born trans).

180423ashy.bsky.social•78 days ago

kate osborne finally a labour MP with some balls

tisarwat.bsky.social•78 days ago

Streeting is a monster and deserves to be remembered as such.

boringdavid.bsky.social•79 days ago

Unfortunately he just talked over them, spewing sanctimonious sounding nonsense.

jedileah.bsky.social•78 days ago

the fact he actively ignored recommendations from charities and medical professional has nothing to do with it mind /s
consultation that he is basing this on, he just ignored everyone and went with it anyway, the fact he used emergency measures to force this through should tell you everything

davemck.bsky.social•78 days ago

📌

tamarainportugal.bsky.social•78 days ago

I cannot escape the conclusion that Streeting is, frankly, a tosser...💁‍♀️

agirlcalleddave.bsky.social•78 days ago

That’s polite I would have gone a lot stronger. I kind a wish my Edwardian grandmothers were alive OMG they would have made him sing if you know what I mean.

durlstonp.bsky.social•78 days ago

Agreed. He is very much a Tory in Labour clothing.

iaincoleman.bsky.social•78 days ago

No, he's Labour. This is who they are.

sheepbop.bsky.social•77 days ago

The Green party had all the what-you'd-think-of-as-Labour-policies in their Manifesto

jayne350.bsky.social•78 days ago

The arsehole still doesn’t get it, and if his idea of medical professionals is lgb alliance etc then he never will.
Just watch the bastard double down just to prove a point 🤬🤬

revo-paula.bsky.social•78 days ago

I had a disagreement with someone recently for calling him a 'monster', because that's the language we use to 'other' someone and excuse our own faults. But frankly there are times when even I would love to wipe the smugness off his wee face for him.

foreignsubstance.bsky.social•79 days ago

I'm trying to imagine how far back in time one might have to go, to grok: "Streeting faces pressure over ‘discriminatory’ ban on puberty blockers" :)

matwinser.bsky.social•78 days ago

And what does this absolute wank think will happen when the trans community have been pushed underground? Does he think perhaps that all of the right-wing religious arseholes will just pack up and go home? Nope, they’ll be coming for you next Wesley. Fucking twat.

machallfox.bsky.social•78 days ago

He has a heavy cocaine addiction and is in the pocket of far right American Christian groups. He’s too stupid to look past anything other than tomorrow. Asking him to plan ahead and consider the old “first they came for the..” is quite frankly a staggeringly tall bar for him to stare at drooling

heatherherbert.uk•79 days ago

Kate Osborne, as I'm sure you know, is one of the few Labour MPs who has been an ally through thick and thin.

queerskiesahead.bsky.social•79 days ago

Don’t forget Nadia Whittome. She’s been consistently speaking up.

heatherherbert.uk•79 days ago

Very true, and again not from a "this is against Keir" but from a principaled position.

davewaggy.bsky.social•79 days ago

Zarah Sultana (Coventry) as well

edwinbe.bsky.social•78 days ago

Wasn’t Zarah booted out of Labour over the winter fuel payment vote?

bringthenoise.bsky.social•78 days ago

Whip was withdrawn but not actually removed from the party (yet). I’m sure the next time she suggests the government actually do something will be the step too far though.

edwinbe.bsky.social•78 days ago

Oh I see, I thought it was the same thing.

bringthenoise.bsky.social•78 days ago

Withdrawing the whip takes away access to a lot of party facilities and support but you’re still in the organisation, at least on paper